STEM+C Education Research Summit

STEM C 计划专注于研究和开发跨学科和跨学科方法，以将计算整合到 K-12 学前班学生正式和非正式环境中的科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 教学和学习中。教育发展中心 (EDC) 将举办并推动 STEM C 教育研究峰会，支持 STEM C 研究界收集、分享和分析他们的研究成果；解决 NSF 在计算 STEM 领域的重大想法；由于计算在 STEM 学科中的强大创新和应用，峰会将继续促进研究领域的发展，以推进从低年级到高中学生的现实世界、跨学科和计算准备。STEM C 研究峰会的设计将借鉴创新网络和实践社区 (COP) 最佳实践的文献，以促进 STEM C 创新 COP 的发展。 COP 会议的设计和主持将为 PI 提供扩展其工作并探索 STEM C 社区内问题的融合和重叠的机会。为了鼓励全球参与的研究文化，一个由 STEM C 研究人员组成的国际小组将受邀介绍他们对各国 STEM C 进展的研究。峰会将是一次工作会议，期间 STEM C 社区成员将了解社区成员取得的进展，综合围绕新兴研究主题的发现，并确定和/或推荐 STEM C 研究的新方向。围绕新兴主题组织的工作组将代表一系列智力工作，为 PI 提供加深对这些领域的理解和关系的机会。峰会的成果将包括：发展独特的跨学科实践社区；集体生产文物和产品；加深对 STEM C 研究项目结果的了解；改进 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，促进未来的研究合作；提供参与综合研究活动和持续阐明整个计划的研究结果和经验教训的机会；该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.