Workshop: ProVis-EER: Developing Professional Vision into Empirical Practices within Engineering Education Research (EER) though Digital Apprenticeship

培养未来的工程人才，主要取决于我们提供卓越培训的能力，以及我们为工程专业培养各种利益相关者的努力。在美国，越来越多的机构正在创建项目、课程和中心来支持未来工程师的培养。这种制度和教育基础设施依赖于对工程教育如何最好地工作的更好和更深的理解，以支持他们的努力和计划。这个项目将通过增加和提高工程教育工作者进行工程教育研究的能力来促进这一使命。通过这一系列的研讨会，该领域的新手将能够从该领域的学者和专家那里学到第一手资料。讲习班的在线性质将确保大量参与者能够参加会议。此外，作为该项目的一部分所创造的资源将用于今后的培训目的。总的来说，这项工作对不断发展的工程教育领域至关重要，未来的工程教育工作者向各种各样的学者和专家学习的能力将扩大所做研究的种类以及研究的结果。该项目与美国国家科学基金会对工程师信息研究（RFE）计划的投资相一致，通过创建更好的工程教育研究人员来支持未来工程师的培训，并为我们知道如何为未来创造一支更具包容性的工程劳动力进行更好的研究。建设工程教育研究（EER）的能力是NSF和诸如美国工程教育学会（ASEE）和美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院（NASEM）等组织的核心目标。在过去的十年中，社区在实现这一目标方面取得了重大进展，越来越多的部门和中心在跨机构的工程教育中得到了证明。EER实践的传播主要是通过面对面的互动，包括博士课程、研究实验室的工作、专业发展会议的研讨会和教程。对于许多人来说，这些面对面的接触和活动是令人望而却步的，他们本可以从更好地了解研究是如何进行的中受益。它们还限制了新研究人员接触更广泛的观点和研究实践。这一系列拟议的数字研讨会被设计为“快速学徒”体验，通过创建工程教育研究实践的范例来增加EER实践者的形成，这些实践将学习者带入项目的整个生命周期，并提供由专家提供的范例学习途径。专家们将专注于他们发表的一篇典型的研究论文，并解构/重构该研究是如何完成的，论文是如何产生的，包括理论、方法和评论。重建工作将以与PI/s对话的形式进行，对话将以视频和音频的形式进行，文件草稿和其他相关文物将被收集和共享。它还将邀请一组新手参与者提出问题，并邀请其他专家发表评论，为研究实践提供另一种观点和额外的背景。本项目将惠及工程教育研究生、工程研究生、对工程教育研究感兴趣的其他学科教师和博士后学者。这项工作将有助于工程教育的研究，特别是对新手的专业视野和脚手架的使用，以及研究实践的迁移学习。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。

The preparation of a future engineering workforce depends critically on our ability to provide excellence in training and through our efforts to train a diverse range of stakeholders for the engineering profession. Increasingly within the United States institutions are creating programs, courses, and centers to support the preparation of the future engineer. This institutional and education infrastructure depends on a better and deeper understanding of how engineering education works best in order to support their efforts and initiatives. This project will contribute to this mission by increasing and improving the capacity of engineering educators to undertake research on engineering education. Through this series of workshops newcomers to the field will be able to learn first-hand from scholar-experts in the field. The online nature of the workshops will ensure that a large number of participants are able to undergo the sessions. Furthermore, the resources created as part of this project will be available for future training purposes. Overall, this work is crucial for the growing field of engineering education and the ability of future engineering educators to learn from a diverse set of scholar-experts will broaden the kinds of research that are done as well as the outcomes of the research. This project aligns with NSF’s investment in the Research in Formation of Engineers (RFE) program by creating better engineering education researchers that can support the training of future engineers and who can undertake better research for us to know how to create a more inclusive engineering workforce for the future. Building capacity for engineering education research (EER) is a core goal of NSF and organizations such as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). Over the past decade the community has made significant gains towards achieving this objective as evidenced by increasing number of departments and centers directed towards engineering education across institutions. Propagation of EER practices has largely been through face-to-face interactions, including doctoral programs, working in research laboratories, and workshops and tutorials at professional development meetings. These in person engagements and events are prohibitive for many who would benefit from developing a better understanding of how research is conducted. They also limit new researchers in exposure to a broader diversity of views and research practices. This proposed series of digital workshops are designed as a “swift apprenticeship” experiences to increase the formation of EER practitioners by creating exemplars of engineering education research practices that take the learner through the entire lifecycle of a project and provide an avenue for learning by example, scaffolded by experts. Experts will focus on one of their exemplary published research papers and deconstruct/reconstruct how that research was done and the paper produced including matters of theory, methods, and review. The reconstruction will take place as a conversation with the PI/s which will be captured on video and audio and drafts of papers and other relevant artifacts will be collected and shared. It will also invite questions from a set of novice participants and commentary from other experts to provide another viewpoint and additional context on research practices. This project will benefit engineering education graduate students, engineering graduate students and faculty in other disciplines interested in engineering education research, and postdoctoral scholars. This work will contribute to research on engineering education, especially the use of professional vision and scaffolding for novices, and on transfer learning for research practices.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.