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

未来工程劳动力的准备主要取决于我们提供卓越培训的能力，并通过我们的努力为工程专业培训各种利益相关者。在美国，越来越多的机构正在创建计划，课程和中心，以支持未来工程师的准备。这种体制和教育基础设施取决于更好和更深入地了解工程教育如何发挥最大作用，以支持他们的努力和举措。该项目将通过提高和改善工程教育工作者进行工程教育研究的能力，为这一使命作出贡献。通过这一系列的研讨会，该领域的新来者将能够从该领域的专家那里学到第一手知识。研讨会的在线性质将确保大量与会者能够参加会议。此外，作为该项目一部分而创建的资源将可用于今后的培训目的。总的来说，这项工作对于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能够从不同的专家那里学习，这将扩大所做的研究种类以及研究成果。该项目与NSF在工程师形成研究（RFE）计划中的投资相一致，通过创建更好的工程教育研究人员，可以支持未来工程师的培训，并且可以为我们进行更好的研究，以了解如何为未来创造更具包容性的工程劳动力。建设工程教育研究能力（EER）是NSF和美国工程教育学会（ASEE）和美国国家科学、工程和医学院（NASEM）等组织的核心目标。在过去的十年中，社区已经取得了显着的成就，实现这一目标，证明了越来越多的部门和中心针对跨机构的工程教育。EER实践的传播主要是通过面对面的互动，包括博士课程，在研究实验室工作，以及专业发展会议上的研讨会和教程。这些亲自参与和活动对许多人来说是禁止的，他们将受益于更好地了解如何进行研究。它们还限制了新的研究人员接触更广泛的观点和研究实践。这个拟议的一系列数字研讨会被设计为一个“快速学徒”的经验，以增加EER从业者的形成，通过创建工程教育研究实践的范例，使学习者通过项目的整个生命周期，并提供一个学习的途径，由专家搭建。专家们将专注于他们的一个典型的已发表的研究论文，并解构/重建该研究是如何完成的，以及论文的产生，包括理论，方法和评论的问题。重建将以与PI对话的方式进行，对话将通过视频和音频进行捕捉，并将收集和共享论文草稿和其他相关工件。它还将邀请一组新手参与者的问题和其他专家的评论，以提供另一种观点和研究实践的额外背景。该项目将使工程教育研究生、对工程教育研究感兴趣的其他学科的工程研究生和教师以及博士后学者受益。这项工作将有助于对工程教育的研究，特别是使用专业的视野和脚手架的新手，并在转移学习的研究实践。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

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.