Equitable and Effective Teaching in Undergraduate STEM Education: A Framework for Institutions, Educators, and Disciplines

该项目旨在通过提供共同语言和框架来促进和指导在中学后科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)课程和方案中实施公平和有效的教学，从而服务于国家利益。该项目打算编写一份国家科学院报告，概述以证据为基础的教学方法的原则，以促进该中心的公平。该报告还计划就如何促进这些方法的实施向机构领导人、部门主任和个别教育工作者提出建议。这一指导将包括对提供中学后STEM教育的各种机构类型的需求和制约因素的关注。该项目计划利用多种形式的证据来考虑所有人口统计群体的学习经历和多种身份的交集，特别是那些没有得到当前做法很好服务的人。这项研究旨在将关于人们如何学习、课堂实践、身份认同和归属感的相关问题与基于学科的教育研究相结合，这些研究涉及STEM领域的教学、高等教育结构的知识以及制度变革的证据。该项目希望增进对中学后STEM教育中教与学的最新研究的了解，并指导大规模的改进。它将按照美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院的共识研究格式进行。科学教育委员会将与高等教育委员会和工作人员委员会合作，召集一个专家委员会进行一项协商一致的研究，以便：1)制定一个以证据为基础的框架，以便在本科STEM教育中公平和有效地教学，并考虑到不同的教学环境、模式和类型；以及2)概述各院校和中学后课程开发商以及学习经验所需的战略和资源，以有效地实施该框架。这项研究计划解决系统各个层面的问题，包括教室、部门、机构以及州和国家政策。特别是，将探讨能够促进采用更公平和有效方法的体制和部门政策和做法，包括与专业发展、奖励和晋升有关的政策和做法。在项目过程中，将开展广泛的外联活动，以收集利益攸关方的意见，并培养有助于理解和落实最后报告中建议的想法的关系。此外，报告发布后，将广泛分发，在专业会议上分享，并用于编写剧本，有针对性地关注项目期间确定的各种类型的机构、模式或其他主题。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高STEM教育对所有学生的有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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 providing common language and a framework to catalyze and guide implementation of equitable and effective teaching in postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses and programs. The project intends produce a National Academies report that outlines principles of evidence-based approaches to teaching that center and promote equity. The report plans to also provide recommendations to institutional leaders, department chairs, and individual educators on how to foster implementation of these approaches. This guidance will include attention to the needs and constraints of the full variety of institution types that provide postsecondary STEM education. The project plans to draw on multiple forms of evidence to consider the learning experiences of all demographic groups and the intersection of multiple identities, especially those who are not well served by current practices. The study intends to integrate related lines of inquiry on how people learn, classroom practices, identity, and belonging with disciplinary based education research on teaching in the STEM fields, knowledge of the structure of higher education, and evidence on system change. The project hopes to advance understanding of the latest research on teaching and learning in postsecondary STEM education and to guide improvements at scale. It will be conducted according to the consensus study format of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The Board on Science Education in collaboration with the Board on Higher Education and the Workforce will convene an expert committee to conduct a consensus study to: 1) develop an evidence-based framework for equitable and effective teaching in undergraduate STEM education that takes into account different teaching contexts, modalities and types of institutions; and, 2) outline the strategies and resources needed for institutions and developers of post-secondary courses and learning experiences to effectively implement the framework. The study plans to address issues ranging across levels of the system that include classroom, department, institutional, as well as state and national policy. In particular institutional and departmental policies and practices that can facilitate adoption of more equitable and effective approaches will be explored, including those related to professional development, incentives, and advancement. During the course of the project, extensive outreach will be carried out to gather input from stakeholders and to cultivate relationships that will foster uptake and implementation of the ideas recommended in the final report. In addition, following its release, the report will be distributed widely, shared at professional conferences, and used to develop playbooks with targeted foci on various types of institutions, modalities, or other themes identified during the project. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program 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.