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共同组建了一个研究+实践（R+P）合作实验室。该合作实验室旨在解决和重塑K-12 STEM教育中研究与实践之间的差距。尽管许多领先的组织、协会和个人进行了数十年的努力，但这种差距仍然存在。缩小差距的尝试通常侧重于创建资源和机制，首先解释或说明“研究说了什么”，然后邀请教育工作者访问并将研究结果整合到实践中。然而，最近，人们的注意力转向了医学科学如何通过发展中的“转化研究”领域来解决研究与临床实践之间的差距。在医学领域，战略是将重点从采用转向将研究应用于实践。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理解每个领域的知识产品如何加强另一个领域的专业活动。在这些方面，R+P合作实验室正在与领先的专业协会和STEM改进工作合作，利用他们现有的知识和经验，制定缩小差距的可持续战略。活动包括：-收集，创建和综合转化研究资源，以扩大STEM教育者和教育领导者对当前相关研究的访问和认识。-支持跨部门（研究与实践、教育与社会科学、正式与非正式）会议的多种机会，促进批判性接触和文化交流。-在适应站点测试、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“Go-To”资源中心网站，该网站容纳了合作实验室收集、创建和策划的资源。资源中心还具有重要的“外卖”功能，所有材料都带有元标签，这样它们就可以自动上传、重新格式化，并集成到现有的交流和专业发展机制中（例如，专业协会合作伙伴网络中的十几个主要专业协会的通讯、摘要、会议和网站）。鉴于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领域：(a) STEM实践，(b)形成性评估，(c)网络学习和(d)学习作为一种交叉设置现象。特别强调的是研究和实践，重点是来自历史上在STEM领域代表性不足的社区的儿童和青年的学习。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来研究和评估其自身的努力：参与者如何获取、体验和利用合作实验室的资源和参与活动？-哪些资源、机制和学习环境支持STEM教育研究者和从业者之间的文化交流？-当基于研究的证据被适应为基于证据的实践时，会产生哪些新的实践？它如何改变K-12岁儿童的学习机会？-如何将合作实验室的有效战略、机制和资源扩展并适应新的环境？

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?