Conference Title: Improving STEM Teaching & Learning by Collaborations Between Cognitive Scientists and Discipline-Based Education Researchers

这是一个为期两天的工作会议，将于2016年春季在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的NSF总部举行，讨论如何加强认知科学家和基于学科的教育研究人员之间的合作。工作组将讨论三个主题：(1)认知科学和以学科为基础的教育研究的证据标准，(2)教学解决方案和创新的工程设计，并将这些解决方案和创新的因果关系归因于这些解决方案和创新；(3)促进CS和DBER社区之间的交流与合作。会议的目标是讨论可以作为国家对话的输入的障碍、机会和政策，以增加CS和DBER研究人员之间的合作。尽管在这两个领域的交流和偶尔的合作方面取得了进展，但STEM科学家和基于学科的教育研究人员在很大程度上仍然不知道认知科学的研究可以用于改善STEM领域的教和学。同样，STEM的研究型教学策略在学习科学中仍然鲜为人知。这次会议将召集两个领域的主要领导人，以讨论重要的方法、实践和哲学问题，以促进两个社区之间更多的对话和合作。

This is a two-day working conference to be held at NSF headquarters in Arlington, VA, in spring 2016 to discuss ways of increasing collaborations between cognitive scientists and discipline-based education researchers. Working groups will discuss the three themes: (1) standards for evidence in cognitive science and discipline-based education research, (2) bridging the engineering of instructional solutions and innovations and attributing causality to those solutions and innovations; and (3) facilitating communication and collaboration across CS and DBER communities. The goal of the meeting is to discuss obstacles, opportunities, and policies that could be used as input in a national dialog to increase collaborations among CS and DBERResearchers.Despite advances in communication and occasional collaboration across these two fields, research from cognitive science that could be applied to improve teaching and learning in the STEM fields remains largely unknown to STEM scientists and discipline-based education researchers. Similarly, research-based instructional strategies in STEM remain largely unknown in the learning sciences. This meeting will convene key leaders from both fields for the purpose of discussing important methodological, practical, and philosophical issues in order to promote increased dialog and collaborations across the two communities.