A Research+Practice Collaboratory

华盛顿大学、探索博物馆、教育发展中心、因弗内斯研究中心和科罗拉多大学博尔德分校联合成立了一个研究+实践(R+P)合作实验室。合作实验室寻求解决和重新构建K-12 STEM教育研究和实践之间的差距。尽管许多领先的组织、协会和个人进行了数十年的工作，但这种差距仍然存在。缩小这一差距的努力通常侧重于创造资源和机制，首先解释或说明“研究说了什么”，然后邀请教育工作者获取研究结果并将其纳入实践。然而，最近，人们的注意力转向了医学如何通过发展中的“转化研究”领域来解决研究和临床实践之间的差距。在医学方面，战略一直是将重点从采用转移到将研究转化为实践。适应的概念隐含着一个双向的文化交流过程，在这个过程中，研究人员和实践者都开始了解每个领域的知识产品如何能够加强另一个领域的专业活动。沿着这些思路，R+P合作实验室正在与领先的专业协会和STEM改进努力合作，利用他们现有的知识和经验，并建立可持续的战略来缩小差距。活动包括：-收集、创建和综合翻译研究资源，以扩大STEM教育工作者和教育领导人对当前相关研究的接触和认识。-支持跨部门(研究和实践；教育和社会科学；正式和非正式)会议的多种机会，以促进关键参与和文化交流。-在适应地点测试、记录和创新新的资源和机制，并通过R+P资源中心传播产品和成果。R+P合作实验室正在开发一个在线的‘Go-to’资源中心网站，其中包含由合作实验室收集、创建和管理的资源。资源中心还具有重要的外卖功能，所有材料都有元标记，以便它们可以自动上传、重新格式化，并整合到专业协会合作伙伴网络中十几个主要专业协会的现有交流和专业发展机制(例如，时事通讯、摘要、会议和网站)中。根据STEM学科的新标准和新兴标准，合作实验室将其工作重点放在四个突出和及时的研究主体上：(A)STEM实践，(B)形成性评估，(C)网络学习，以及(D)学习作为一种交叉设置现象。R+P合作实验室的工作包括通过旨在回答以下问题的研究对其自身努力进行研究和评估：-参与者如何获取、体验和利用合作实验室资源和参与活动？-哪些资源、机制和学习环境支持STEM教育研究人员和实践者之间的文化交流？-当基于研究的证据转变为基于证据的做法时，会产生哪些新的做法，它如何改变K-12岁儿童的学习机会？-如何扩大和调整合作实验室的有效战略、机制和资源，以适应新的背景？

The University of Washington, the Exploratorium, the Education Development Center, Inverness Research, and the University of Colorado - Boulder have come together to form a Research+Practice (R+P) Collaboratory. The Collaboratory seeks to address and reframe the gap between research and practice in K-12 STEM education. This gap persists despite decades of work by many leading organizations, associations, and individuals. Attempts to close the gap have generally focused on creating resources and mechanisms that first explain or illustrate "what research says" and then invite educators to access and integrate findings into practice. Recently, however, attention has turned to the ways in which the medical sciences are addressing the gap between research and clinical practice through the developing field of "translational research." In medicine, the strategy has been to shift the focus from adoption to adaptation of research into practice. Implicit in the notion of adaptation is a bi-directional process of cultural exchange in which both researchers and practitioners come to understand how the knowledge products of each field can strengthen the professional activities in the other. Along these lines, the R+P Collaboratory is working with leading professional associations and STEM improvement efforts to leverage their existing knowledge and experience and to build sustainable strategies for closing the gap. Activities include: - Collecting, creating and synthesizing translational research resources to expand STEM educators' and educational leaders' access and awareness to current relevant research. - Supporting multiple opportunities for cross-sector (research and practice; education and social sciences; formal and informal) meetings to foster critical engagement and cultural exchange. - Testing, documenting and innovating new resources and mechanisms at Adaptation Sites and disseminating both products and results through the R+P Resource Center. The R+P Collaboratory is developing an online 'Go-To' Resource Center website that houses the resources collected, created, and curated by the Collaboratory. The Resource Center also has significant 'Take-Out' features, with all materials meta-tagged so that they can be automatically uploaded, reformatted, and integrated into the existing communication and professional development mechanisms (e.g., newsletters, digests, conferences, and websites) of a dozen leading professional associations within a Professional Association Partner Network.In light of new and emerging standards in the STEM disciplines, the Collaboratory is focusing its work on four salient and timely bodies of research: (a) STEM Practices, (b) Formative Assessment, (c) Cyberlearning, and (d) Learning as a Cross-Setting Phenomenon. Special emphasis is being placed on research and practice that focuses on the learning of children and youth from communities historically underrepresented in STEM fields.The work of the R+P Collaboratory includes research and evaluation of its own efforts through studies aimed at answering the following questions: - How are Collaboratory resources and engagement activities accessed, experienced and leveraged by participants? - What resources, mechanisms and learning contexts support cultural exchange among STEM education researchers and practitioners? - What new kinds of practices result when research-based evidence is adapted into evidence-based practices, and how does it change learning opportunities for K-12 aged children? - How can effective strategies, mechanisms and resources of the Collaboratory be scaled and adapted to new contexts?