Building Capacity for Future Engineering Education Research and Scholarship

未来工程教育研究和学术能力建设

• 批准号: 1457003
• 负责人: Alan Cheville
• 金额: $ 8.61万
• 依托单位: Bucknell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-11-01 至 2017-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1457003&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Future; Engineering; Education

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education has great benefits to society, from supporting new technological developments that benefit humanity to preparing a 21st century workforce. As societal needs change, our nation?s education system needs to adapt by developing new educational content that stays abreast of changing technology, new ways of teaching that engage computer-literate students, and building on our increasing knowledge of how effective learning occurs. The workshop funded in this proposal will better allow the engineering education researchers who discover how to improve STEM education to effectively communicate the latest discoveries to those who help devise and implement education policy. Such communication is critical if the United States education system is to continue to effectively adapt to 21st century challenges. To help build robust communication channels, the workshop brings together leaders and emerging leaders in engineering education, policy makers in both the public and private sectors, and representatives of organizations that impact policy decisions using chain-referral sampling. The workshop uses a framework designed to develop value propositions that can resonate with the diverse entities that make up the engineering education ecosystem; these entities are represented at the workshop. In-depth evaluation will capture actionable lessons that can inform related efforts in other communities. The workshop has potentially broad impact since it builds capacity for more effectively implementing findings from research into the educational policy decisions that affect large numbers of current and future students. Participation of the needed diverse elements of the larger engineering education system is addressed.

科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育对社会有很大的好处，从支持造福人类的新技术发展到培养21世纪的劳动力。随着社会需求的变化，我们的国家？美国的教育系统需要通过开发新的教育内容来适应不断变化的技术，开发新的教学方式来吸引会使用计算机的学生，并建立在我们对有效学习如何发生的日益增长的知识的基础上。本提案资助的研讨会将更好地让发现如何改善STEM教育的工程教育研究人员有效地将最新发现传达给帮助制定和实施教育政策的人。如果美国教育系统要继续有效地适应21世纪的挑战，这种交流是至关重要的。为了帮助建立健全的沟通渠道，研讨会汇集了工程教育领域的领导者和新兴领导者，公共和私营部门的政策制定者，以及使用连锁推荐抽样影响政策决策的组织代表。研讨会使用了一个框架，旨在开发价值主张，可以与构成工程教育生态系统的各种实体产生共鸣；这些实体在研讨会上有代表。深入的评估将获得可采取行动的经验教训，为其他社区的相关工作提供信息。讲习班具有潜在的广泛影响，因为它为更有效地将研究成果落实到影响大量当前和未来学生的教育政策决定中建立了能力。更大的工程教育系统所需要的不同元素的参与是解决。