Building and Sustaining Research-Practice Partnerships for Equity in STEM Education

该项目正在建立一个由STEM研究人员、地区和学校领导、正式和非正式教育工作者以及社区联盟组成的社区，致力于建立和维持研究-实践伙伴关系，以改善STEM教育。研究-实践伙伴关系是从业人员和研究人员之间的长期合作，旨在调查实践中的问题和改善教育系统成果的解决方案。在STEM教育中，由美国国家科学基金会资助的数学和科学伙伴关系项目是设计伙伴关系的例子，它将高等教育的主题专家、数学和科学教育研究人员以及学区聚集在一起。其他例子还可以在伙伴关系中找到，在这种伙伴关系中，正规和非正规教育组织的网络联系在一起，并与研究人员一起为青年组织更健全和公平的学习生态。该项目的具体目标是：(1)建立一个由博士和早期职业研究人员组成的知识和技能网络，这些研究人员可以与地区、非正式教育组织和社区联盟建立并保持长期的合作伙伴关系，专注于STEM的改进；(2)建立一个成熟的研究实践伙伴关系网络，重点关注下一代数学和科学的学习和公平，为新的伙伴关系提供资源和知识；(3)发展关于有效伙伴关系战略的知识，以及如何最好地支持一个专注于伙伴关系工作的学者网络和一个研究实践伙伴关系网络。这项工作的一个基本前提是，大规模的STEM改进需要新的机会和基础设施，以促进研究与实践之间的持续交流。这一努力的主要成果是：-由实践者和研究人员共同开发的一套可访问网络的资源（包括研究报告、实用工具和简短视频剪辑），涉及形成和维持伙伴关系、开发和使用实施和结果证据来指导伙伴关系的设计、在面对变化时维持伙伴关系以及促进公平、包容和利用伙伴关系多样性的战略。-一套以网络参与者的经验为基础的指导方针，供研究人员准备从事伙伴关系工作。-发表一份白皮书，介绍与网络资源相连的伙伴关系工作的案例研究，并借鉴研究-实践伙伴关系的活动和成就。-一份评估报告，特别关注博士生和早期职业研究人员的纵向结果。

This project is building a community of STEM researchers, district and school leaders, formal and informal educators, and community coalitions engaged in building and sustaining research-practice partnerships to improve STEM education. Research-practice partnerships are long-term collaborations between practitioners and researchers that are organized to investigate problems of practice and solutions for improving the outcomes of educational systems. In STEM education, Math and Science Partnership projects funded by the National Science Foundation are examples of design partnerships that bring together subject matter experts in higher education, mathematics and science education researchers, and school districts. Other examples can be found among partnerships in which a network of formal and informal education organizations are linked together and with researchers to organize more robust and equitable learning ecologies for youth.The specific objectives for this project are to: (1) Build knowledge and skill of a network of doctoral and early career researchers who can form and maintain long-term partnerships with districts, informal education organizations, and community coalitions focused on STEM improvement; (2) Create a network of mature research-practice partnerships focused on next generation mathematics and science learning and equity that produces resources and knowledge to benefit new partnerships; and (3) Develop knowledge about effective partnership strategies and about how best to support a network of scholars focused on partnership work and a network of research-practice partnerships. A basic premise for this work is that STEM improvement at scale requires new opportunities and infrastructures for fostering ongoing exchange between research and practice.The key products of this endeavor are:- A set of web-accessible resources (including research reports, practical tools and brief video clips) co-developed by practitioners and researchers related to forming and maintaining partnerships, developing and using implementation and outcome evidence to guide design in partnerships, sustaining partnerships in the face of change, and strategies for promoting equity, inclusion, and leveraging diversity in partnerships.- A set of guidelines, grounded in the experiences of network participants, for the preparation of researchers to engage in partnership work.- A white paper for publication that presents case studies of partnership work, linked to the web-based resources, and that draws on activities and accomplishments of the research-practice partnership.- An evaluation report that pays particular attention to longitudinal outcomes for doctoral students and early career researchers.