Preparing for the Future of the STEM Teacher Workforce in the 21st Century: Leveraging Multi-contextual Evidence

为 21 世纪 STEM 教师队伍的未来做好准备：利用多情境证据

• 批准号: 2200975
• 负责人: Tuan Nguyen
• 金额: $ 29万
• 依托单位: Kansas State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2200975&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; Future; STEM; Teacher; Workforce

This project aims to identify trends in the demographics and turnover behavior of the STEM teacher workforce. It focuses on specific remedies and investments needed to retain prospective teachers in high-need schools, especially rural communities, and to improve outcomes for their students. The project includes two complementary studies, one using the National Teacher and Principal Survey (an update from the earlier Schools and Staffing Survey) and a second, using longitudinal administrative data from the states of Kansas and Missouri. The project will explore a range of questions, including: how STEM teacher demographics, turnover intentions, and actual turnover may have changed nationally due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and how the Great Recession of 2007-08 and the COVID-19 pandemic may have influenced teacher outcomes. This body of research will produce insights to inform actionable recruitment and retention practices for high-need school districts and future research focused on teacher labor markets.The conceptual framework and proposed analyses build upon a model of teacher turnover that suggests three main categories of factors that drive teacher turnover: teacher factors, school factors, and external factors and events. Leveraging this framework, the investigators group the research questions and analyses into three broad themes: STEM teacher characteristics, the school and student characteristics in which STEM teachers are employed, and contemporary secular trends that impact STEM teachers. They also consider the interplay between the STEM teacher characteristics and the school context in which STEM teachers work. The investigating team will employ descriptive and regression analyses to answer the research questions. Across interconnected lines of inquiry, the researchers will balance national generalizability with comprehensive state-specific application to inform current and future practice, policy, and research.This project is supported by the EHR Core Research(ECR) program. The ECR program emphasizes fundamental STEM education research that generates foundational knowledge in the field. Investments are made in critical areas that are essential, broad and enduring: STEM learning and STEM learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development. The program supports the accumulation of robust evidence to inform efforts to understand, build theory to explain, and suggest intervention and innovations to address persistent issues in STEM education.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.

该项目旨在确定STEM教师劳动力的人口统计和离职行为趋势。它侧重于在高需求学校（特别是农村社区）留住未来教师所需的具体补救措施和投资，并改善学生的成绩。该项目包括两项互补研究，一项使用全国教师和校长调查（较早的学校和人员调查的更新），另一项使用堪萨斯州和密苏里州的纵向行政数据。该项目将探讨一系列问题，包括：由于COVID-19大流行，STEM教师的人口统计、离职意向和实际离职率如何在全国范围内发生变化；以及2007-08年的大衰退和COVID-19大流行可能如何影响教师的成果。这一研究体系将为高需求学区的招聘和保留实践提供见解，并为未来的教师劳动力市场研究提供参考。概念框架和提出的分析建立在教师离职模型的基础上，该模型提出了驱动教师离职的三大类因素：教师因素、学校因素和外部因素和事件。利用这一框架，研究人员将研究问题和分析分为三个主题：STEM教师特征，STEM教师所雇用的学校和学生特征，以及影响STEM教师的当代长期趋势。他们还考虑了STEM教师特征与STEM教师工作的学校环境之间的相互作用。调查小组将采用描述性和回归分析来回答研究问题。通过相互关联的调查线，研究人员将平衡国家概括性与全面的国家具体应用，以告知当前和未来的实践，政策和研究。该项目由EHR核心研究（ECR）计划支持。ECR项目强调在该领域产生基础知识的基础STEM教育研究。投资在至关重要、广泛和持久的关键领域：STEM学习和STEM学习环境，扩大STEM参与，以及STEM劳动力发展。该项目支持积累有力的证据，为理解、建立理论来解释、提出干预和创新建议，以解决STEM教育中持续存在的问题提供信息。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。

项目成果

We need to know more about CTE teachers

我们需要更多地了解 CTE 教师

• DOI: 10.1177/00317217231161535
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Phi Delta Kappan
• 影响因子: 1.2
• 作者: Anglum, J. Cameron;Diemer, Andrew R.;Ecton, Walter G.;Nguyen, Tuan D.
• 通讯作者: Nguyen, Tuan D.