ECR: BCSER: Conference: Integrating STEM Education Research Collaboration for Regional Prosperity

ECR：BCSER：会议：整合 STEM 教育研究合作以促进区域繁荣

• 批准号: 2025270
• 负责人: Alexis Petri
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Kansas City
• 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: 2020-10-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2025270&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ECR; BCSER; Conference; Integrating; STEM

The proposed three-day conference "Integrating STEM Education Research Collaboration for Regional Prosperity" will highlight topics relevant to STEM education and workforce development in the greater Kansas City region. STEM education topics will include supporting student success, broadening participation in STEM, and developing partnerships between two- and four-year institutions. Regional prosperity topics will include identifying high-impact practices to retain STEM majors, promoting STEM careers, and building coalitions among regional stakeholders. Participants will present research and learn from each other while working together to identify how post-secondary education can improve its commitment to STEM student success and regional prosperity. The conference will support local and national efforts that increase STEM degree attainment, diversify the STEM workforce, and expand interdisciplinary approaches to post-secondary STEM education. The conference has four goals: 1) Support STEM education researchers to identify critical challenges, opportunities, and actionable solutions to retain STEM-aspirational students and graduate a diverse workforce; 2) Engage best practices on the frontiers of collective impact, institutional transformation, and data-informed collaboration; 3) Apply new knowledge and innovations to projects addressing both institutional and societal needs; and 4) Provide a venue for research dissemination and collaborative problem-solving. The conference will convene a "Think Tank” (conference plus networked improvement community) of top researchers, practitioners, and professionals who will collaboratively design, collect, and analyze data. Results of this analysis will support STEM education improvements to prepare a diverse STEM workforce that will promote increased regional prosperity. Ultimately, the conference outcomes will contribute an actionable set of data that can be useful for demystifying factors related to post-secondary attrition in the region and identifying feasible educational technology and pedagogies to improve STEM student retention. Additionally, the conference will develop a general ecosystem model focused on the unique academic, social, and cultural factors influencing STEM education research. The project is supported through the EHR Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER) 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.

拟议的为期三天的会议“整合 STEM 教育研究合作以促进地区繁荣”将重点关注与大堪萨斯城地区 STEM 教育和劳动力发展相关的主题。 STEM 教育主题将包括支持学生的成功、扩大 STEM 的参与以及发展两年制和四年制院校之间的合作伙伴关系。区域繁荣主题将包括确定保留 STEM 专业学生的高影响力实践、促进 STEM 职业发展以及在区域利益相关者之间建立联盟。参与者将展示研究成果并相互学习，同时共同努力确定高等教育如何能够改善其对 STEM 学生成功和地区繁荣的承诺。会议将支持地方和国家为提高 STEM 学位水平、实现 STEM 劳动力多元化以及扩展中学后 STEM 教育的跨学科方法而做出的努力。会议有四个目标：1) 支持 STEM 教育研究人员确定关键挑战、机遇和可行的解决方案，以留住有志于 STEM 的学生并培养多元化的劳动力队伍； 2) 在集体影响、制度转型和数据协作等前沿领域采用最佳实践； 3）将新知识和创新应用于满足机构和社会需求的项目； 4) 提供研究传播和协作解决问题的场所。会议将召集顶尖研究人员、从业者和专业人士组成的“智囊团”（会议加网络改进社区），他们将协作设计、收集和分析数据。该分析的结果将支持 STEM 教育的改进，培养多元化的 STEM 劳动力，从而促进区域繁荣。最终，会议成果将提供一组可操作的数据，有助于揭开与该地区高等教育流失相关的因素，并确定可行的教育技术和教学法，以提高 STEM 学生的保留率。此外，会议还将开发一个通用生态系统模型，重点关注影响 STEM 教育研究的独特学术、社会和文化因素。 该项目得到 EHR 核心研究：STEM 教育研究能力建设（ECR：BCSER）竞赛的支持，该竞赛旨在培养个人在 STEM 学习和学习环境中开展高质量基础 STEM 教育研究、扩大 STEM 领域参与以及 STEM 劳动力发展的能力。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。