Workshop: An Evidence-based Industry Perspective on STEM Education for the Future

研讨会：未来 STEM 教育的循证行业视角

• 批准号: 2109974
• 负责人: Yasaman Moghaddam
• 金额: $ 8.58万
• 依托单位: International Society of Service Innovation Profes
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-03-15 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2109974&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Evidence; based; Industry; Perspective

This project aims to serve the national interest by further informing higher education leaders about industry perspectives concerning skills needed for STEM jobs of the future. The project will focus at a 10-year and beyond horizon. It will also take account of the disruptive changes driven by advanced digital technologies, work behaviors, and business models. These changes are profoundly affecting the nature of work, skills needed for work, and the composition of the workforce. In many industries, the most in-demand occupations, specialties, and skills did not exist five or ten years ago. The pace of change is likely to accelerate going forward and to have tremendous impacts on how the workforce of the future acquires and applies new skills. This project will examine the new research questions that emerged from an earlier project on the industry perspective on STEM education for the future. These research questions include: 1) How has industry perspective on needed skills changed because of the COVID-19 crisis? 2) How are industry recruiters and hiring managers screening STEM graduates for both specialized and foundational skills? 3) From industry perspective, which colleges/universities and curricula/pedagogies better align with current and future industry demand? 4) Can a set of desirable curriculum/pedagogy attributes be developed? and 5) How are industry recruiters using badges and certifications to assess job-readiness of college graduates? To examine these research questions, this project will organize and host four virtual workshops in fall and winter 2021. The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP), in collaboration with the University of Washington, will execute the project. With more than 1400 members representing multiple industry sectors, academia, and government, ISSIP is uniquely positioned to conduct this research. By presenting an evidence-based industry perspective, this project aims to further explore how to close the gap between undergraduate education and employment, to ensure the Nation continues to have a thriving STEM workforce in the future. Workshop 1 will focus on the industry hiring process: How are industry recruiters and hiring managers screening STEM graduates for technical skills/foundational skills? And how does that map to the undergraduate curricula and/or pedagogies of the universities with which they have had the most and least success hiring new graduates? Workshop 2 will examine industry perspectives on badging and evolution of credentialing. Workshop 3 will explore industry perspectives on university curricula and pedagogies that are best aligned with the needs of industry. Workshop 4 will examine the industry perspective on the impact of COVID-19 on the future of work and of learning. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students.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.

该项目旨在通过进一步向高等教育领导者提供有关未来STEM工作所需技能的行业观点，为国家利益服务。该项目将着眼于10年及以后的时间。它还将考虑到先进的数字技术、工作行为和商业模式所带来的颠覆性变化。这些变化深刻地影响着工作的性质、工作所需的技能和劳动力的构成。在许多行业中，最需要的职业、专业和技能在5年或10年前还不存在。变革的步伐可能会加快，并对未来劳动力获取和应用新技能的方式产生巨大影响。该项目将研究从早期项目中出现的新的研究问题，从行业角度对未来的STEM教育进行研究。这些研究问题包括：1)由于COVID-19危机，行业对所需技能的看法发生了什么变化？2)行业招聘人员和招聘经理如何筛选STEM毕业生的专业技能和基础技能？3)从行业的角度来看，哪些学院/大学和课程/教学法更符合当前和未来的行业需求？4)能否开发出一套理想的课程/教学法属性？5)行业招聘人员如何使用徽章和证书来评估大学毕业生的就业准备情况？为了研究这些研究问题，该项目将在2021年秋季和冬季组织和举办四次虚拟研讨会。国际服务创新专业人员协会（ISSIP）将与华盛顿大学合作执行该项目。ISSIP拥有1400多名成员，代表多个行业、学术界和政府部门，在开展这项研究方面具有独特的优势。通过展示基于证据的行业视角，该项目旨在进一步探索如何缩小本科教育与就业之间的差距，以确保国家在未来继续拥有蓬勃发展的STEM劳动力。研讨会1将重点关注行业招聘流程：行业招聘人员和招聘经理如何筛选STEM毕业生的技术技能/基础技能？这与大学的本科课程和/或教学方法有什么关系呢？这些大学在招聘新毕业生方面取得了最大的成功，也有最不成功的。工作坊2将探讨业界对徽章和证书发展的看法。研讨会3将探讨最符合行业需求的大学课程和教学方法的行业观点。第四次研讨会将从业界角度探讨2019冠状病毒病对未来工作和学习的影响。NSF IUSE: EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。