International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography

该项目是为了响应EHR核心研究(ECR)计划公告NSF 19-508而提交的。ECR STEM教育基础研究计划为关键的研究领域提供资金，这些领域是基本的、广泛的和持久的。ECR支持在以下重点领域帮助综合、建立和/或扩大研究基础的项目：STEM学习、STEM学习环境、STEM劳动力发展和扩大STEM的参与。ECR计划的特点是强调积累可靠的证据，为(A)理解、(B)建立解释理论和(C)建议干预措施(和创新)以应对STEM兴趣、教育、学习和参与方面的持续挑战提供信息。这次会议将在佩珀丁大学校园举行，将建设国家科学基金会支持的社区从非常有前途的定量人种学(QE)研究方法中受益的能力。这一针对年轻学者的培训研讨会嵌入到会议中，通过建立一个早期职业研究人员社区，在进行基础STEM教育研究时谨慎地使用定量民族志来支持ECR计划的目标。这些学者将准备检验和实证检验与ECR计划中心目标一致的新理论。这笔资金将支持：a)出席将在美国为博士和职业早期研究人员举行的关于量化宽松的国际会议并进行培训；b)由几名参会研究人员领导这些年轻学者的技术沉浸式会议前研讨会；以及c)更广泛的研讨会演讲者名单，他们代表NSF支持的学科，量化宽松方法可以显著受益。会议的学术价值来自于量化宽松在众多领域的吸引力或承诺。拟议的活动是围绕扩大量化宽松的智力优势在新学科中的影响而组织的。该项目始终如一地强调为下一代研究人员提供概念和软件工具和方法，以解决NSF在社会科学、基础STEM教育研究和学习科学领域支持的当前和未来的重要问题。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。

This project was submitted in response to EHR Core Research (ECR) program announcement NSF 19-508. The ECR program of fundamental research in STEM education provides funding in critical research areas that are essential, broad and enduring. ECR supports projects that help synthesize, build and/or expand research foundations in the following focal areas: STEM learning, STEM learning environments, STEM workforce development, and broadening participation in STEM. The ECR program is distinguished by its emphasis on the accumulation of robust evidence to inform efforts to (a) understand, (b) build theory to explain, and (c) suggest interventions (and innovations) to address persistent challenges in STEM interest, education, learning, and participation. This conference, to be held at the Pepperdine University campus, will build the capacity of NSF-supported communities to benefit from the highly promising research methodology of quantitative ethnography (QE). This training workshop for young scholars, embedded in conference, supports the goals of the ECR program by developing a community of early career researchers to carefully use quantitative ethnography in the conduct of basic STEM education research. These scholars will be prepared to examine and empirically test new theory consistent with the central goals of the ECR program. The funding will support: a) attendance and training at an international conference on QE for doctoral and early career researchers to be held in the U.S., b) a technical immersion preconference workshop that several of participating researchers would lead for these young scholars, and c) a broader slate of symposium speakers who represent NSF supported disciplines that QE methods can benefit significantly.The intellectual merit of the conference arises both from the appeal or promise of QE across numerous fields. The proposed activities are organized around broadening the impact of QE’s intellectual merit across new disciplines. The project maintains a consistent emphasis on furnishing next-generation researchers with conceptual and software tools and methodology to address important current and future questions across the spectrum of fields NSF supports in social sciences, basic STEM education research, and the learning sciences.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.