Workshop on Mid-scale STEM Education Research Infrastructure

中型STEM教育研究基础设施研讨会

• 批准号: 2013314
• 负责人: Jessica Avery
• 金额: $ 9.66万
• 依托单位: SRI International
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-15 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2013314&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Mid; scale; STEM; Education

With support from NSF’s Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings and the Division of Undergraduate Education, this project will serve the national interest by exploring midscale approaches to improving STEM education for all students. The award will fund a workshop that brings together education researchers and other key stakeholders to explore how NSF’s Mid-scale Research Infrastructure Big Idea could facilitate STEM education research. This Big Idea aims to address research infrastructure needs of the scientific, engineering, and STEM education fields by investing in the development of experimental research capabilities in the mid-scale range, defined as $20-70 million total project cost. Mid-scale infrastructure funding is intended to support development, design, and construction of cutting-edge research infrastructure to support scientific advances. In the STEM education field, such investments have the potential to advance research on many topics, including the development of technologies for use in educational settings, models of education, and career pathways. The results of this research could help the nation meet the learning needs of an increasingly diverse population at all stages of the learning lifecycle. Successful implementation of this workshop will produce a vision and a set of priorities for the mid-scale research infrastructure needed to support STEM education research.The Workshop on Mid-scale STEM Education Research Infrastructure will convene STEM Research education experts and stakeholders to exchange ideas about how mid-scale research infrastructure can advance the frontier of STEM education and to develop a community of stakeholders around this topic. Mid-scale research infrastructure is necessary to enable the advancement of knowledge about how best to educate all learners regarding STEM concepts and skills. Developing foundational skills and knowledge in STEM is an imperative for all students in primary and secondary education. At the postsecondary level, success in STEM is crucial to a broad range of professions and career pathways. Graduate training both prepares the researchers who will advance basic knowledge as well as the next generation of teachers and professors. Informal STEM educators also play a key role in providing opportunities to engage with STEM applications and concepts. Although much progress has been made across sectors in developing effective instructional practices in STEM, the proliferation of new technologies such as mixed reality and simulations, of computational applications across disciplines, and of interdisciplinary educational and career pathways will lead to new challenges and opportunities to be addressed by education research. This workshop aims to advance the nation’s STEM education by enhancing knowledge of relevant research infrastructure needs. The workshop will convene an interdisciplinary group of experts with the charge to identify opportunities and gaps that can inform the potential for mid-scale research infrastructure to advance STEM education research. The resulting workshop summary will detail potential projects and identify anticipated near-term outcomes and long-term impacts of mid-scale STEM education research infrastructure.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.

在NSF在正式和非正式环境中学习研究部以及本科教育的学院的支持，该项目将通过探索中等规模的方法来提高所有学生的STEM教育。该奖项将资助一个研讨会，该研讨会汇集了教育研究人员和其他主要利益相关者，以探讨NSF中期研究基础设施如何促进STEM教育研究。这个大想法旨在通过投资于中级范围内的实验研究能力的开发来满足科学，工程和STEM教育领域的研究基础设施需求，定义为总项目总成本为20-7亿美元。中等基础设施资金旨在支持开发，设计和尖端研究基础设施的开发，设计和构建，以支持科学进步。在STEM教育领域，此类投资有可能提高对许多主题的研究，包括开发用于教育环境，教育模式和职业途径的技术。这项研究的结果可以帮助国家在学习生命周期的各个阶段满足日益多样化的人群的学习需求。该研讨会的成功实施将为支持STEM教育研究所需的中期研究基础设施提供远见和一系列优先事项。关于中等规模的STEM教育研究基础设施的研讨会将召集STEM研究教育专家和利益相关者，以交换有关中等规模研究基础设施的想法，以推动STEM教育的前层教育以及围绕Stem over over over over over over over over over over over over of STEM of STEM围绕着这一主题。中等规模的研究基础设施对于能够提高有关如何最好地教育所有学习者有关STEM概念和技能的知识是必要的。对于所有中学和中等教育中的所有学生来说，在STEM中发展基本技能和知识是必不可少的。在中学后一级，STEM的成功对于广泛的专业人士和职业道路至关重要。研究生培训都为研究人员和下一代教师和教授做准备。非正式的STEM教育者在提供参与STEM应用和概念的机会方面发挥了关键作用。尽管在开发STEM的有效教学实践方面已经取得了很大的进步，但是新技术（例如混合现实和模拟）的扩散，跨学科的计算应用以及跨学科教育和职业途径的扩散将导致由教育研究解决的新挑战和机会。该研讨会旨在通过增强对相关研究基础设施需求的知识来推动美国的STEM教育。研讨会将召集一个跨学科的专家小组，以确定机会和差距，这些机会和差距可以为中期研究基础设施的潜力提供促进STEM教育研究的潜力。由此产生的研讨会摘要将详细介绍潜在的项目，并确定预期的近期结果和中期STEM教育研究基础设施的长期影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估值得支持。