Breaking the Boundaries of Collaboration in STEM Education Research

近几十年来，人们越来越关注本科科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育的研究，并取得了进展，现在是时候建立一个广泛的、以STEM为重点的研究人员网络了。打破STEM教育界限会议将汇集学科教育研究（DBER）和教与学奖学金（SoTL）的学者，创建一个中心，使这些研究人员能够相互学习和合作。该项目将在洛约拉玛丽蒙特大学（Loyola Marymount University）评估、推进和转变STEM教育合作研究（CREATE-STEM）小组所做的成功努力的基础上进行扩展。这次会议将开创先例，并将提供一个具有可扩展潜力的模式。两个主要的研究问题指导了会议的总体范围：(1)在STEM相关的定量技能的教与学方面，跨学科的共同思路是什么？(2)为了促进跨学科合作，影响STEM相关定量技能的教与学，需要克服哪些挑战和障碍？首届会议将围绕三个主题组织：公平、解决问题和计算思维。该项目将产生一份会议论文集和相关同行评议的档案出版物。

Recent decades have seen increasing attention to and progress in research in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, making it time to initiate a STEM-wide and STEM-focused researcher network. The Breaking the Boundaries in STEM Education Conference will bring together scholars in discipline-based education research (DBER) and in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) to create a hub that will enable these researchers to learn from and collaborate with each other. The project will expand on successful efforts undertaken by the Collaborative Research on Evaluating, Advancing, and Transforming Education in STEM (CREATE-STEM) group at Loyola Marymount University.This conference will be precedent-setting and will offer a model that has the potential to be scalable. Two main research questions guide the overall scope of the conference: (1) What are the common threads across disciplines to approach the teaching and learning of quantitative skills that are relevant in STEM? (2) What are the challenges and barriers that need to be overcome in order to foster collaboration across disciplines to impact the teaching and learning of quantitative skills relevant in STEM? The inaugural conference will be organized around three themes: equity, problem solving, and computational thinking. The project will result in a conference proceedings and relevant peer-reviewed archival publications.