From Vision to Impact: Propagating the Recommendations from the American Psychological Association’s Introductory Psychology Initiative (APA-IPI)

本项目旨在通过改进作为STEM核心课程的心理学入门课程的教学，为国家利益服务。高质量的STEM课程可以帮助招募和留住有才华的、多样化的STEM劳动力，并提高所有学生对科学的理解，将科学作为应对复杂社会挑战的重要工具。心理学入门是最受欢迎的STEM课程，每年有超过160万学生学习这门课程。美国心理协会的心理学入门倡议（APA-IPI）包括一套建议和拟议的学生学习成果，旨在改变心理学入门课程。本次会议的目标是将心理学和其他STEM学科的教育工作者和科学家聚集在一起，制定一个强有力的计划，将这些建议付诸实践。本次会议的参与者将是APA-IPI建议的早期采用者，这些建议来自不同的教育机构（例如，社区学院、四年制大学、研究生院、少数民族服务机构）。通过一系列虚拟会议，将利用便利的讨论来实现四个目标。首先是区分促进和阻碍APA-IPI早期采用者传播努力的因素。其次是发现帮助早期采用者克服挑战的解决方案。第三是确定采用者需要的资源和支持，以忠实地实现建议。四是制定符合用户需求的传播计划。会议产生的知识将记录在会议成果中（包括提交给同行评议的科学期刊发表的报告和文章），旨在为有兴趣实施APA-IPI建议的利益相关者以及有兴趣改进可用于有效宣传教育创新的方法的科学家提供指导。本次研讨会的支持来自IUSE: EHR计划，该计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。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。

This project aims to serve the national interest by improving the teaching of Introductory Psychology as a core STEM course. High-quality STEM courses can help to recruit and retain a talented, diverse STEM workforce and elevate all students’ understanding of science as an essential tool that can be used to address complex societal challenges. Introductory Psychology is the most popular STEM course, with over 1.6 million students taking the course each year. The American Psychological Association’s Introductory Psychology Initiative (APA-IPI) includes a set of recommendations and proposed student learning outcomes designed to transform the Introductory Psychology course. The goal of this conference is to bring together educators and scientists in Psychology and other STEM disciplines to develop a robust plan to put these recommendations into practice. Participants in this conference will be early adopters of the APA-IPI recommendations recruited from a diversity of educational institutions (e.g., community colleges, 4-year institutions, graduate institutions, minority serving institutions). Over a series of virtual meetings, facilitated discussion will be used to achieve four objectives. First is to distinguish the factors that have facilitated, from those that have hindered, the propagation efforts of APA-IPI early adopters. Second is to discover solutions that have helped early adopters overcome challenges. Third is to identify the resources and supports adopters need to implement the recommendations with fidelity. Fourth is to develop a propagation plan that is aligned with users' needs. The knowledge generated through the conference will be documented in conference deliverables (including a report and articles to be submitted for publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals) aimed at providing guidance to stakeholders interested in implementing the APA-IPI recommendations, as well as scientists interested in improving methods that can be used to effectively propagate educational innovations. Support for this workshop comes from the IUSE: EHR Program which supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students.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.