Continuing the Conversation in Discipline-Based Education Research: The Transforming Research in Undergraduate STEM Education Conference

在过去的几十年里，本科生对数学和科学的教与学的研究迅速增加。这些工作中的大部分是由物理、生物、化学和数学系的教职员工进行的，也是资助研究提案和同行评议出版物的基础。当这些数学和科学学科的研究人员合作时，这项研究可能会特别有影响。然而，来自不同科学和数学学科的教育研究人员之间的合作关系直到最近才出现。这一改善本科生STEM教育(IUSE：EHR)项目将组织、实施和评估本科生STEM教育转型研究(TRUSE)会议的成功，该会议旨在将基于学科的教育研究人员(DBER)聚集在一起分享知识和建立合作。通过杰出的全体演讲者和投稿海报以及工作组会议，TRUSE会议将为研究人员提供一个场所，让他们接触到研究教学的新方法，这些方法在只针对一个学科的会议中是不容易获得的。除了将DBER聚集在一起分享理论框架、方法和成果外，TRUSE会议还将通过让大量研究生和博士后研究人员参与数学和科学教育，创建合作研究计划并建设此类综合工作的能力。该项目将资助演讲者和组织者以及一些研究生和博士后研究人员的会议旅费，并将包括一场小额赠款资金竞赛，以资助由与会者开发的一个新的跨学科研究项目。

Studies of teaching and learning of mathematics and science at the undergraduate level have been rapidly increasing over the past several decades. Much of this work is being conducted by faculty members within departments of physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics, and is the basis for funded research proposals and peer-reviewed publications. This research can be particularly impactful when researchers across these mathematics and sciences disciplines collaborate. However, partnerships between education researchers from different science and mathematics disciplines have only recently emerged. This Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE:EHR) project will organize, implement, and assess the success of the Transforming Research in Undergraduate STEM Education (TRUSE) Conference for bringing together discipline-based education researchers (DBERs) to share knowledge and build collaborations.Through presentations from outstanding plenary speakers and contributed posters, as well as working group sessions, the TRUSE conference will provide a venue for researchers to gain exposure to new ways of investigating teaching and learning that would not be readily available to them within a conference that is specific to only one discipline. In addition to bringing DBERs together to share theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and findings, the TRUSE conference will create collaborative research programs and build capacity for such integrative work by involving a significant number of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in mathematics and science education. This project will fund conference travel for speakers and organizers, as well as some graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, and will include a competition for mini-grant funding to seed a new, cross-disciplinary research project developed by conference participants.