STEM+C Education Research Summit

STEM+C计划的重点是研究和开发跨学科和跨学科的方法，以将计算与科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教学和学习相结合，为正式和非正式环境中的preK-12学生。教育发展中心（EDC）将开发和促进STEM+C教育研究峰会，支持STEM +C研究社区收集，分享和分析他们的研究成果;解决NSF在计算STEM领域的大想法;由于计算在STEM学科中的强大创新和应用，峰会将继续催化研究领域，以推进现实世界，STEM+C研究峰会的设计将从创新网络和实践社区（COPs）的最佳实践文献中汲取，以促进STEM+C创新COP的发展。COP会议的设计和促进将使PI有机会扩大其工作，并探索STEM+C社区内问题的汇合和重叠。为了鼓励全球参与的研究文化，将邀请STEM+C研究人员组成的国际小组介绍他们在各国STEM+C方面的研究进展。峰会将是一个工作会议，在此期间，STEM+C社区成员将了解社区成员所取得的进展，围绕新兴研究主题综合研究结果，并确定和/或建议STEM+C研究的新方向。围绕新出现的主题组织的工作组将成为智力工作的纽带，为参与者提供机会，加深对这些领域的理解和关系。峰会的成果将包括：发展一个独特的跨学科实践社区;共同生产文物和产品;提高对STEM+C研究项目结果的理解;推进STEM+C评估方法，以建立设计研究的专业知识，从而产生可行的成果，作为教育创新的基础;发展专业同行联系，从而促进未来的研究合作;提供机会参与综合研究活动和正在进行的整个项目的研究结果和经验教训的阐述;并参与一个工作组，将解决未来的战略STEM+C教育。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

The STEM+C Program focuses on research and development of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to the integration of computing within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teaching and learning for preK-12 students in both formal and informal settings. The Education Development Center (EDC) will develop and facilitate a STEM+C Education Research Summit that will support the STEM+C research community to collect, share, and analyze their research findings; address NSF's Big Ideas in computational STEM fields; and because of the powerful innovation and application of computing in the STEM disciplines, the Summit will continue to catalyze the research field for advancing real-world, interdisciplinary, and computational preparation of students from the early grades through high school.The STEM+C Research Summit design will be drawn from literature on best practices of innovation networks and communities of practice (COPs) to foster the development of a STEM+C innovation COP. The COP meeting design and facilitation will give PIs an opportunity to expand on their work and explore the confluence of issues and overlaps within the STEM+C community. To encourage a research culture that is globally engaged, an international panel of STEM+C researchers will be invited to present their research on advances in STEM+C in various countries. The Summit will be a working meeting, during which STEM+C community members will learn about advances made by community members, synthesize findings around emerging research themes, and identify and/or recommend new directions for STEM+C research. Working groups organized around emerging themes will represent a nexus of intellectual work that provides opportunities for PIs to deepen understandings and relationships in those areas. Outcomes of the Summit will include, development of a unique, interdisciplinary community of practice; collectively producing artifacts and products; increased understanding of the findings of STEM+C research projects; advancement of STEM+C evaluation methods to build expertise in designing research that will lead to viable outcomes as the foundation for education innovation; develop professional peer connections leading to future research collaborations; provide opportunities to engage in syntheses research activities and ongoing articulation of program-wide findings and lessons learned; and participation in a working group that will address future strategies for STEM+C education.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.