ECR Hub: Advancing the Long-Term Potential of Fundamental Research

作为一个为期5年的资源中心，EHR核心研究-资源协调中心（ECR Hub）旨在推进NSF的ECR核心（ECR）和ECR STEM教育研究能力建设（ECR：BCSER）计划可以更好地使用和支持STEM学习和学习环境的基础研究，扩大STEM参与和STEM劳动力发展。ECR资助的研究有可能通过开发基础知识来解决紧迫的国家问题，这些基础知识可以指导和告知更广泛的联邦STEM教育投资。为了帮助实现这一长期潜力，ECR中心有两个中心目标：（a）扩大现有ECR投资的影响和范围（例如，现有的研究成果，现有的ECR方法培训机构）和（B）提供ECR的职业发展机会，目前和潜在的受赠人。ECR Hub将针对目前ECR组合中代表性不足的研究社区和机构进行外展活动。ECR Hub将针对三个核心的直接受众：当前的ECR受赠者，潜在的ECR受赠者，以及通过与其他EHR资源中心协调达成的其他NSF教育和人力资源（EHR）计划的利益相关者。ECR Hub将通过一套协调的六个关键项目活动，在这些受众之间进行参与、支持和建立联系：（1）确定多样化ECR受资助者社区的需求，（2）编目和综合过去和当前的ECR研究，（3）为当前的受资助者建立研究网络和信息共享，（4）进行外展并扩大潜在受资助者的参与，（5）整合和传播来自ECR方法培训机构的资源，以及（6）建立跨中心合作，以推进长期ECR计划目标。美国研究院是ECR中心的牵头机构，与摩根州立大学、西北大学和格鲁吉亚州立大学的学者密切合作。Partner to Improve将作为外部评估机构，一个机构多元化和多学科的咨询委员会将帮助指导ECR Hub的目标和活动。该项目由NSF的EHR核心研究（ECR）计划提供支持。ECR计划强调基础STEM教育研究，产生该领域的基础知识。投资是在关键领域是必不可少的，广泛的和持久的：干学习和干学习环境，扩大参与干，干劳动力发展。该计划支持积累强有力的证据，为理解、建立理论解释、提出干预和创新建议以应对教育中持续存在的挑战提供信息。该奖项反映了NSF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。

As a 5-year resource center, the EHR Core Research – Resource Coordination Hub (ECR Hub) is designed to advance the ways in which NSF’s ECR Core (ECR) and ECR Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR:BCSER) programs can better use and support fundamental research on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development. ECR-funded research has the potential to address pressing national problems by developing foundational knowledge that can guide and inform the broader set of federal STEM education investments. To help realize that long-term potential, the ECR Hub has two central goals: (a) extend the influence and reach of existing ECR investments (e.g., existing research results, existing ECR methods training institutes) and (b) provide ECR career development opportunities to current and potential grantees. The ECR Hub will conduct outreach to researcher communities and institutions currently underrepresented in the ECR portfolio.The ECR Hub will target three core, immediate audiences: current ECR grantees, prospective ECR grantees, and stakeholders in other NSF Education and Human Resources (EHR) programs reached via coordinating with other EHR resource hubs. The ECR Hub will engage, support, and build connections among and across these audiences through a coordinated set of six key project activities: (1) identifying the needs of a diverse ECR grantee community, (2) cataloging and synthesizing past and current ECR research, (3) building research networks and information sharing for current grantees, (4) conducting outreach and broadening participation of prospective grantees, (5) consolidating and disseminating resources from ECR methods training institutes, and (6) building cross-hub collaborations to advance long-term ECR program goals. The American Institutes for Research is the lead institution for the ECR Hub, working in close partnership with scholars from Morgan State University, Northwestern University, and Georgia State University. Partner to Improve will serve as the external evaluator, and an institutionally diverse and multidisciplinary advisory board will help guide the ECR Hub goals and activities.This project is supported by NSF's 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 challenges in 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.