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

采用和持续使用基于研究的教学策略更有可能发生时，机构创造的环境和结构，以支持教师努力切换到他们。本科教育的司创造了几个赠款机会，以支持在干教学机构转型提供机构赠款下的WIDER计划在2012年和2013年，此后在IUSE：EHR计划在机构和社区转型轨道。（WIDER代表扩大循证改革的实施和示范。IUSE：EHR代表EHR理事会中的改进本科STEM教育。 本次会议将召集主要研究者和共同主要研究者参与这两个项目支持的项目，以及NSF范围内IUSE框架下的联盟NSF项目，例如IUSE：GEOPATHS，IUSE：RED和IUSE：POLAR。为了节省运输成本，它将在过去和现在的一系列上述项目中，利用NSF赠款接受者的全国会议。 本次会议定于2016年春季举行。国家科学基金会4年来一直致力于通过赠款改造机构，以克服机构内的障碍，采用以研究为基础的教学战略，现在有大量的机构参与推广使用以证据为基础的教学方法和相关的评估和评价工作。每个机构都参与了一套部分独特的活动，以增加和支持基于研究的实践的传播。会议的结构旨在确定不同的办法如何在不同的体制环境中发挥作用，以确定哪些办法对体制环境具有稳健性，哪些办法对东道机构具有较强的特性。在一个单一的机构中，每个机构的研究团队都有一种趋势，即受到其机构特质的严重影响。通过跨机构的连接，团队将能够开发各种策略的有效性，可以部署在整个教学教师传播有效的教学实践的主要目标服务的更广泛的视角。 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整合研究。这项整合研究将为研究团队提供一个场所，以比较结果并分享他们对有效方法的理解。会议将产生三项成果：确定各种体制背景下的成功战略，综合研究结果，以及建立一个供进一步采取后续行动的赞助项目网络。本次会议将利用主要研究者的经验和专业知识，通过对话进行研究整合，通过分组会议使用共识会议和共识发展小组的方法。 将使用7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.