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努力转向研究型教学策略时，研究型教学策略的采用和持续使用更有可能发生。本科教育司创造了几个资助机会，通过在2012年和2013年期间在WIDER项目下提供机构资助，以及此后在机构和社区转型轨道上的IUSE: EHR项目中提供机构资助，来支持STEM教学的机构转型。(WIDER代表扩大循证改革的实施和示范。IUSE: EHR代表EHR理事会改善本科STEM教育。)本次会议将聚集由这两个项目支持的项目的首席研究员和联合首席研究员，以及在NSF-wide IUSE框架下的联合NSF项目，例如IUSE: GEOPATHS， IUSE: RED和IUSE: POLAR。为了节省运输成本，它将在NSF资助接受者的全国会议上讨论上述一系列过去和现在的项目。本次会议定于2016年春季举行。美国国家科学基金会（NSF）四年来一直致力于通过拨款改造院校，以克服采用研究型教学策略的机构内部障碍，现在有相当数量的院校致力于推广循证教学方法的使用，并在评估和评估方面做出相关努力。每个机构都参与了一套部分独特的活动，以增加和支持基于研究的实践的传播。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，以便确定那些对机构环境有益的方法和那些对主办机构更为特殊的方法。在单个机构中，每个机构的研究团队都倾向于受到其机构特质的严重影响。通过跨机构的联系，团队将能够对各种策略的有效性形成更广阔的视角，这些策略可以用于在整个教学团队中传播有效教学实践的主要目标。该项目的主要目的是对经济发展研究所和IUSE: EHR支持的项目的初步结果进行研究整合研究。这项综合研究将为研究团队提供一个比较结果和分享他们对工作原理的理解的场所。会议将产生三个结果：确定各种机构背景下的成功战略，综合调查结果，以及为进一步后续行动建立赞助项目网络。本次会议将利用主要研究人员的经验和专门知识，通过对话进行研究整合，利用协商一致会议和协商一致发展小组的方法，利用分组会议。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.