BCSER-IID: Foundations for a STEM What Work Clearinghouse for Broadening Participation Research in STEM Education

拟议的项目将为扩大历史上黑人学院和大学(HBCU)的STEM教育研究参与度的信息交流中心奠定基础。该信息交换中心被设想为一个在线平台，将在这一初始阶段使用通过系统的文献审查收集的数据。研究人员使用VITE研究人员发展框架来确定STEM教育研究技能差距，这将是全面专业发展的重点。专业发展领域包括知识和智力能力；个人效率；研究治理和组织；以及参与度、影响力和影响力。这些目标将通过完成元分析研究设计和方法方面的正式培训、获得数据库基础和数据分析方面的培训以及接受指导来实现。该项目将使调查员能够贡献学术，为HBCU的有效干预和未来研究的主题提供信息。该研究项目将通过回答两个研究问题，对国家科学基金会资助的HBCU扩大参与干预措施进行元分析：(1)扩大参与研究干预措施是什么，对谁有效？以及(2)在NSF资助的HBCU扩大参与干预措施的项目特征与HBCU学生成功指标之间的平均校正相关性是什么？研究设计为定量、回顾性、系统性综述。这个设计选择的基本原理是元分析研究对研究人员的力量。这项研究将由专家导师指导，并了解通过有系统的专业发展活动获得的专门知识。从长远来看，该研究项目有望为研究人员提供可获得的经验数据，以大力扩大对STEM教育研究的参与。该项目通过STEM教育研究竞赛中的EHR核心研究能力建设得到支持，该竞赛旨在建设个人在STEM学习和学习环境中开展高质量基础STEM教育研究的能力，扩大对STEM领域的参与，以及STEM劳动力发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The proposed project will lay the foundation for a clearinghouse of broadening participation STEM education research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The clearinghouse is envisioned as an online platform that will be populated with data collected through a systematic literature review during this initial phase. The investigator used the Vitae Researcher Development Framework to identify the STEM education research skills gaps that will be the focus of a comprehensive professional development. The professional development domains include knowledge and intellectual abilities; personal effectiveness; research governance and organization; and engagement, influence and impact. The goals will be accomplished by completing formalized training in meta-analysis research design and methodology, acquiring training in database foundations and data analytics, and receiving mentoring. The project will position the investigator to contribute scholarship that informs effective interventions at HBCUs and topics for future research. The research project will produce a meta-analysis of NSF-funded broadening participation interventions at HBCUs by answering two research questions: (1) What broadening participation research interventions work and for whom? and (2) What are the mean corrected correlations between program traits in NSF-funded HBCU broadening participation interventions and student success metrics at HBCUs? The research design is a quantitative retrospective systematic review. The rationale for this design selection is the power of meta-analytical studies for researchers. The research will be guided by expert mentors and informed by the expertise acquired through structured professional development activities. The research project, in the long term, is expected to provide accessible empirical data for investigators to conduct robust broadening participation in STEM education research studies. The project is supported through the EHR Core Research Building Capacity in STEM Education Research competition that is designed to build individuals' capacity to carry out high quality fundamental STEM education research in STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM fields, and STEM workforce development.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.