Best Practices in K-12 STEM Research Experiences

绿岸天文台将组织和主办一个社区研讨会，讨论由美国国家科学基金会数学和物理科学理事会（MPS）支持的学科中高中生的研究经验。研讨会的目的是作为一个论坛，分享，收集社区意见，并阐明为高中生提供研究经验的最佳实践，并在大学，实验室和天文台组织此类研究活动。从研讨会中收集的信息可以用来告知NSF数学和物理科学理事会，以考虑如何通过未来的目标项目最好地支持K-12的研究活动。人们经常说，要解决21世纪提出的全球挑战，需要美国的劳动力接受STEM领域的培训，而STEM劳动力可能不足以满足这一需求。STEM领域的教育研究文献表明，尽早并经常让学生参与真实的研究经历，可以增强STEM身份、STEM自我效能感和STEM职业兴趣：这三个个人属性与进入STEM职业道路并坚持下去有关。然而，这些文献大多集中在大学生身上。本次研讨会将召集为高中生设计和实施研究经验的人员和组织，他们将研究这些经验在培养学生的兴趣和STEM身份方面所起的作用。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 Green Bank Observatory will organize and host a community workshop on research experiences for high school students in disciplines supported by NSF’s Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS). The workshop is intended as a forum for sharing, gathering community input, and illuminating best practices in providing research experiences to high school students and organizing such research activities across universities, labs, and observatories. The input gathered from the workshop can be used to inform the NSF Mathematics and Physical Sciences Directorate in considering how best to support K-12 research activities through future targeted programs. It is often stated that solving the global challenges presented by the 21st century requires a United States workforce with training in STEM fields, and that the STEM workforce may be insufficient to fill that need. Education research literature in STEM suggests that engaging students early and often in authentic research experiences enhances STEM identity, STEM self-efficacy, and STEM career interest: three personal attributes that are linked to entry into and persistence on a STEM career pathway. Much of this literature is focused on college students, however. This workshop will convene people and organizations who have designed and implemented research experiences for high school students, and who will examine the role such experiences can play in the development of a student’s interest and STEM identity.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.