Communicating Across the Researcher Practitioner Divide

跨越研究人员和实践者的鸿沟进行沟通

• 批准号: 1911331
• 负责人: Bevlee Watford
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1911331&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Communicating; Across; Researcher; Practitioner; Divide

Despite numerous efforts to transform engineering education, challenges in teaching, learning, and administration persist. Some have argued that one reason for these persistent challenges is because of poor connections between research and practice. Unfortunately, there are no existing tools to measure the extent of this problem among researchers and practitioners in engineering education. The purpose of this study is to design and implement a survey that measures engineering education researchers' and practitioners' views on the role of research in education. The data will be collected at the 2019 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity), which is a conference specifically designed to link research and practice. The findings of this study will generate concrete data that will reveal underlying differences between education researchers' and practitioners' perspectives on one of the thorniest issues in education: how to convert research to practice. Gaining a better understanding of what bolsters the gap between research and practice in engineering education context will lead to the development of tools and professional development resources that will be useful in bridging this divide in engineering education and other STEM education disciplines. Strengthening connections between research and practice in engineering education will improve the impact of publicly-supported STEM education research. It will also contribute to the development of a more diverse and competent workforce that is well prepared to address society's greatest challenges and opportunities. The goal of this project is two-pronged: 1) to develop a valid and reliable instrument for measuring education researchers' and practitioners' perspectives on the role of research in education using a framework Bulterman-Bos; and 2) implement it at an upcoming conference specifically designed to bring together engineering education researchers and practitioners in order to determine if there are statistically significant differences in responses based on the participants' role. The valid and reliable instrument resulting from this work will draw broadly on the perspectives of researchers and practitioners, as well as theories and methods developed by other related disciplines. As such, it will be relevant to a wide variety of stakeholders in engineering education and other STEM education-related fields struggling to bridge connections between research and practice. Deploying this instrument at the CoNECD conference will ensure that the findings are informed by both groups of stakeholders, and the people who are in the best position to offer insights about how to foster connections between research and practice. The existence of dichotomous views, if found to be substantiated by data, could leads to a myriad of practical things that could be done to change how researchers and practitioners communicate with and inform one another's work.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.

尽管做出了许多努力来改变工程教育，但教学，学习和管理方面的挑战仍然存在。一些人认为，这些持续挑战的一个原因是研究与实践之间的联系不佳。不幸的是，没有现有的工具来衡量这个问题的程度，在工程教育的研究人员和从业人员。本研究的目的是设计并实施一项调查，以衡量工程教育研究者和实践者对研究在教育中的作用的看法。这些数据将在2019年CoNECD（工程和计算多样性合作网络）上收集，这是一个专门设计用于连接研究和实践的会议。这项研究的结果将产生具体的数据，将揭示教育研究者和实践者对教育中最棘手的问题之一的观点之间的潜在差异：如何将研究转化为实践。更好地了解是什么支撑了工程教育背景下的研究与实践之间的差距，将导致工具和专业发展资源的开发，这将有助于弥合工程教育和其他STEM教育学科的这一鸿沟。加强工程教育研究与实践之间的联系将提高公共支持的STEM教育研究的影响。它还将有助于发展一支更加多样化和有能力的工作队伍，为应对社会最大的挑战和机遇做好充分准备。本项目的目标是双管齐下：1）利用Bulterman-Bos框架，开发一种有效可靠的工具，用于测量教育研究者和实践者对教育研究作用的看法;和2）在即将举行的会议上实施它，专门旨在汇集工程教育研究人员和实践者，以确定是否有统计上的显着差异，基于响应参与者的角色。这项工作产生的有效和可靠的工具将广泛借鉴研究人员和从业人员的观点，以及其他相关学科开发的理论和方法。因此，它将与工程教育和其他STEM教育相关领域的各种利益相关者相关，这些利益相关者正在努力弥合研究与实践之间的联系。 在CoNECD会议上部署这一工具将确保两组利益相关者以及最有能力就如何促进研究与实践之间的联系提供见解的人都了解调查结果。存在的二分法的观点，如果发现被证实的数据，可能会导致无数的实际的事情，可以做改变如何研究人员和从业人员沟通，并告知对方的工作。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。