Conference Title: Research Integration of Early Findings from Institution Transformation Projects

当机构创造环境和结构来支持教师转向研究型教学策略时，采用和持续使用研究型教学策略的可能性更大。本科教育部门创造了几个资助机会，以支持STEM教学中的机构转型，在2012至2013年间，以及此后在机构和社区转型轨道上的IUSE：EHR计划下，提供了机构赠款。(WIDER代表扩大循证改革的实施和示范。IUSE：EHR代表改善EHR理事会中的本科STEM教育。)本次会议将召集由这两个计划支持的项目的首席调查人员和联合首席调查人员，以及NSF范围内IUSE框架下的NSF相关计划，例如IUSE：GEOPATHS、IUSE：RED和IUSE：POLLE。为了节省运输成本，它将利用NSF赠款接受者的全国会议，在前述一系列过去和现在的项目中。这次会议定于2016年春季举行。在国家科学基金会四年来致力于通过赠款改造机构，以克服机构内部对采用研究型教学战略的障碍之后，现在有相当数量的机构参与推广基于证据的教学方法的使用以及在评估和评价中的相关努力。每个机构都参与了一套部分独特的活动，以增加和支持以研究为基础的做法的传播。会议的结构旨在确定不同的方法如何在不同的机构背景下发挥作用，以确定哪些方法对机构环境有利，哪些方法对主办机构更为特殊。在单一机构中，每个机构的研究团队都有一种趋势，即受到其机构特点的严重影响。通过跨机构的联系，团队将能够就各种战略的有效性发展出更广泛的视角，这些战略可以服务于在整个教学教职员工中传播有效教学实践的主要目标。该项目的主要目的是对WIDER和IUSE：EHR支持的项目的初步结果进行研究综合研究。这项整合研究将为研究团队提供一个比较结果并分享他们对什么是有效的理解的场所。这次会议将产生三个成果：确定各种体制背景下的成功战略，综合调查结果，以及为进一步的后续行动建立一个赞助项目网络。本次会议将利用首席调查员的经验和专门知识，通过对话进行研究整合，采用协商一致会议的方法，并通过分组会议举行协商一致的发展小组。将使用七步元人种学方法。

The adoption and sustained use of research-based instructional strategies are more likely to occur when institutions create environments and structures to support faculty efforts to switch to them. The Division of Undergraduate Education has created several grant opportunities to support institutional transformation in STEM instruction by providing institutional grants under the WIDER program during 2012 and 2013 and thereafter in the IUSE: EHR program in the Institutional and Community Transformation track. (WIDER stood for Widening the Implementation and Demonstration of Evidence-Based Reforms. IUSE: EHR stands for Improving Undergraduate STEM Education in the EHR Directorate.) This conference will assemble Principal Investigators and co-Principal Investigators on projects supported by those two programs, as well as allied NSF programs under the NSF-wide IUSE framework, e.g. IUSE: GEOPATHS, IUSE: RED, and IUSE: POLAR. To save transportation costs, it will piggyback on a national meeting of NSF grant recipients in an array of the aforementioned programs past and present. This meeting is scheduled for the spring, 2016. Following NSF's 4-year focus on transforming institutions through grants in order to overcome intra-institutional barriers to adopting research-based instructional strategies, there is now a substantial number of institutions engaged in spreading the use of evidence-based teaching approaches and associated efforts in assessment and evaluation. Each institution is engaged in a partly unique set of activities to increase and support the spread of research-based practices. The structure of the conference is designed to determine how different approaches are working in different institutional contexts in order to identify those that are robust to institutional setting and those that are more idiosyncratic to the host institution. In a single institution there is a tendency for the research team in each institution to be heavily influenced by the idiosyncrasies of their institution. By connecting across institutions, teams will be able to develop a broader perspective on the effectiveness of various strategies that can be deployed in service of the main goal of spreading effective teaching practices across the instructional faculty. The primary purpose of this project is to conduct a research integration study of the preliminary findings of the projects supported by WIDER and IUSE: EHR. This integration study will provide a venue for research teams to compare results and share their understandings of what is working. The conference will lead to three outcomes: identification of successful strategies across a variety of institutional contexts, a synthesis of findings, and a network of sponsored projects for further follow-up. This conference will use the experience and expertise of the Principal Investigators through research integration by dialogue, using the approaches of a consensus conference and a consensus development panel through use of break-out sessions. A 7-step meta-ethnographic approach will be used.