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

拟议的为期三天的会议“整合STEM教育研究合作，促进地区繁荣”将重点讨论与大堪萨斯城地区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高影响力的做法，以保留STEM专业，促进STEM职业生涯，并建立区域利益相关者之间的联盟。与会者将展示研究成果，并相互学习，同时共同努力，以确定高等教育如何提高其对STEM学生成功和区域繁荣的承诺。会议将支持地方和国家努力提高STEM学位的获得，使STEM劳动力多样化，并扩大中学后STEM教育的跨学科方法。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STEM学生并毕业于多元化的劳动力; 2）在集体影响，机构转型和数据知情合作的前沿采用最佳实践; 3）将新知识和创新应用于解决机构和社会需求的项目;（4）为研究传播和合作解决问题提供场所。会议将召集一个由顶级研究人员、从业人员和专业人士组成的“智囊团”（会议加网络改进社区），他们将合作设计、收集和分析数据。这项分析的结果将支持STEM教育的改进，以培养多样化的STEM劳动力，促进地区繁荣。最终，会议成果将提供一组可操作的数据，这些数据可用于揭开该地区中学后减员的神秘因素，并确定可行的教育技术和方法，以提高STEM学生的保留率。此外，会议将开发一个通用的生态系统模型，重点关注影响STEM教育研究的独特学术，社会和文化因素。 EHR核心研究：STEM教育研究能力建设（ECR：BCSER）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教育研究的能力，扩大STEM领域的参与，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识产权进行评估来支持。优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.