Geoscience Education Research: Community Synthesis and Planning Project

地球科学教育研究(GER)社区综合和规划项目将推动迄今为止地球科学教育研究综合报告的产生，并通过社区投入确定未来地球科学教育研究需求的优先次序。它响应了地球科学教育研究界最近的行动呼吁，并以2012年国家研究理事会对以学科为基础的教育研究的分析中确定的成果和需求为基础，以及最近由国家科学基金会资助的一个项目(#1513519塑造地球科学研究的未来)为基础。该项目将影响地球科学教育界的广泛领域，包括两年制和四年制学院和研究型大学的地球科学教育学者，以及认知科学家和地球科学教育实践者。项目活动将包括将经同行审查的GER主要期刊《地球科学教育杂志》的过去几期进行数字化；这一数字化将增加现有地球科学教育研究人员、其他STEM学科的从业人员、教育研究人员和对地球科学教育研究以及课程和教学奖学金感兴趣的国际学者获得宝贵资源的机会。此外，该项目将通过广泛传播的在线调查和夏季讲习班，寻求和汇编地球科学研究者界的意见，以支持当前和未来的地球科学教育研究人员。还将开发一个在线GER方法“工具箱”，以开始满足GER新手的需求。总体而言，这些努力将综合地球观测研究和确定地球观测研究社区的需求的优先次序，并将通过提供讨论论坛和资源供其使用，为当前和未来的地球科学教育研究人员提供支持。这一综合可用于帮助确定地球观测研究下一步的优先顺序，改进研究方法和促进合作，并最终改善地球科学的教学和学习。将JGE过去数十年的纯印刷文章数字化将增加对地球观测研究基础研究的获取，并扩大地球观测研究文献综述的时间框架和研究数量，以便为《地球科学教育杂志》的一期关于综合结果和确定地球观测的未来方向的主题研究提供参考。这项在线调查预计将覆盖美国大多数GER研究人员，这将确保社区在制定支持当前和未来地球科学教育研究人员的优先需求清单方面提供广泛的投入。2016年地球教育者聚会上的研讨会将把40名地球科学教育研究人员聚集在一起，讨论调查结果和地球观测研究结果，并分享对未来研究项目和合作的想法。通过设计一个在线GER工具箱，该项目将开发一种资源，开始解决GER社区的需求。通过借鉴专题论文集的研究结果、广泛传播的对地球科学教育研究人员和从业人员的调查结果以及2015年和2016年地球科学教育研究报告讲习班的结果，该项目将能够确定地球科学研究报告的重要成果、主要研究差距和地球科学研究实践界的关键需求。

The Geoscience Education Research (GER) Community Synthesis and Planning Project will advance the production of a synthesis of GER to date and prioritize future geoscience education research needs via community input. It responds to recent calls for action in the geoscience education research community, and builds on outcomes and needs identified in the 2012 National Research Council analysis of discipline-based education research, and on a recent NSF-funded project (#1513519 Shaping the Future of GER). The project will impact a wide cross section of the geoscience education community, including geoscience education scholars at 2-year and 4-year colleges and research universities, as well as cognitive scientists and geoscience education practitioners. Project activities will include digitization of past issues of the primary peer-reviewed GER journal, the Journal of Geoscience Education; this digitization will increase access to a valuable resource for current geoscience education researchers, as well as practitioners, education researchers in other STEM disciplines, and international scholars who are interested in geoscience education research and curriculum and instruction scholarship. In addition, the project will seek and compile input from the GER community via a broadly disseminated online survey and a summer workshop on what is most needed to support current and future geoscience education researchers. An online GER methods "toolbox" will also be developed to begin addressing needs of those new to GER. Collectively, these efforts will result in a synthesis of GER and a prioritization of the needs of the GER community, and will support current and future geoscience education researchers by offering forums for discussion and resources for their use. This synthesis can be used to help prioritize the next steps in GER, to improve research approaches and foster collaborations, and ultimately to improve teaching and learning in the geosciences.Digitizing decades of past print-only articles in JGE will increase access to foundational GER studies, and expand the timeframe and number of studies for inclusion in GER literature reviews for a Journal of Geoscience Education theme issue on Synthesizing Results and Defining Future Directions of GER. The online survey is expected to reach most of GER researchers in the US, which will ensure broad community input in developing a prioritized list of needs to support current and future geoscience education researchers. The workshop at the 2016 Earth Educators' Rendezvous will bring 40 geoscience education researchers together to discuss survey results and GER findings, and share ideas for future research projects and collaborations. By designing an online GER toolbox, the project will develop a resource that will begin to address a GER community need. By drawing from findings in the collections of theme issue papers, from results of the broadly disseminated survey of geoscience education researchers and practitioners, and from the 2015 and 2016 EER GER workshops, the project will be able to identify important outcomes from GER, key research gaps, and critical needs of the GER community of practice.