The RISE Postdoctoral Training Program in Mathematics Education: Inclusive STEM Education rooted in an Integrative Theory of Learning

RISE博士后培训计划将使用基于RISE原则的框架培训一批STEM教育研究的博士后学者(纳斯尔等人，2021年)。Rise原则认为，学习是：植根于基本的生物和认知过程；与社会情感和身份认同的发展相结合；位于社会和文化背景中并由其塑造；作为体现和社会协调的体验。在这些原则的指导下，研究和教育培训计划有五个关键组成部分：(1)个别化的指导；(2)与涉及一项或多项RISE原则的现有项目合作的研究学徒；(3)根据研究员的兴趣并在其初级和二级导师的指导下支持独立研究；(4)跨学科培训；以及(5)专业能力的发展，包括出版和撰写补助金。该计划将尖端科学的有效指导与指导团队在学习科学和STEM教育方面的跨学科专业知识相结合。该计划将培养一批致力于服务于代表性不足的社区的新兴研究人员，他们准备推动包容性STEM教育的前沿，并培训未来的研究人员。该计划以理论驱动、资源丰富、基于队列的方法为特色，提供定制的指导体验，以确保参与社区参与研究的不同研究人员的参与和留住。拟议的计划基于这样一个命题，即创造更公平的STEM学习结果的生成性途径需要认识到现有的学习观点限制了关于什么可以学习、谁可以学习以及重要的学习如何发生的广泛信念和愿景。因此，该方案将利用RISE框架中详细说明的学习科学跨学科研究的综合见解。这项工作将由具有跨学科但互补专业知识的成熟、高效的数学教育和数学认知研究人员组成的核心推动，他们管理着大量现有的项目，博士后研究员可以参与其中。此外，该项目将获得威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校国家认可的机构的支持，以促进有效的导师培训和社区参与的STEM研究。总之，RISE博士后培训计划将汇集一系列专业知识和资源，以培养一批来自不同背景的新研究人员，他们准备好(A)推动包容性STEM教育的前沿，(B)通过确保来自不同群体的后续几代学习者更多地参与STEM，实现持续的影响。该项目由NSF的STEM教育博士后研究奖学金计划(STEM Ed PRF)支持，联合资金来自发现研究预科K-12计划(DRK-12)。STEM ED PRF计划旨在增强STEM、STEM教育、教育和相关学科的新近博士的研究知识、技能和实践，以促进他们从事基础和应用研究，促进该领域知识的发展。DRK-12计划旨在通过研究和开发创新的资源、模式和工具，显著提高K-12学前班学生和教师的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发工作的基础上，为拟议的项目提供了理论和经验上的证明。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。

The RISE Postdoctoral Training Program will train a cohort of postdoctoral scholars in STEM Education research using a framework based on the RISE principles (Nasir et al., 2021). The RISE principles hold that learning is: Rooted in basic biological and cognitive processes; Integrated with socioemotional and identity development; Situated in and shaped by social and cultural contexts; and Experienced as embodied and socially coordinated. Guided by these principles, the research and education training plan features five key components: (1) individualized mentorship; (2) research apprenticeships with existing projects that address one or more of the RISE principles; (3) support for independent research according to fellows’ interests and guided by their primary and secondary mentors; (4) interdisciplinary training; and (5) development of professional competencies, including publishing and grant writing. The program integrates cutting edge science on effective mentorship with the mentoring team’s interdisciplinary expertise in the learning sciences and STEM education. The program will nurture a cohort of emerging researchers committed to serving underrepresented communities who are prepared to both push the frontiers of inclusive STEM education and to train future researchers.The program features a theory-driven, resource-rich, cohort-based approach, offering customized mentored experiences to ensure the engagement and retention of diverse researchers participating in community-engaged research. The proposed program rests upon the proposition that a generative path towards creating more equitable STEM learning outcomes requires recognizing that extant views of learning limit widely held beliefs and visions about what can be learned, who can learn, and importantly, how learning occurs. The program will thus leverage combined insights from interdisciplinary studies of the science of learning as detailed in the RISE framework. The work will be driven by a core of established, highly productive math education and math cognition researchers with interdisciplinary yet complementary expertise who manage a large slate of existing projects with which postdoctoral fellows can engage. Moreover, the project will enlist support from UW–Madison’s nationally recognized institutes for promoting effective mentor training and community-engaged STEM research. In sum, the RISE Postdoctoral Training Program will marshal an array of expertise and resources to nurture a cohort of new researchers from diverse backgrounds who are prepared both (a) to push the frontiers of inclusive STEM education and (b) to achieve sustained impacts by ensuring greater participation in STEM by successive generations of learners from diverse groups.This project is supported by NSF’s STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (STEM Ed PRF) Program with co-funding from the Discovery Research PreK-12 Program (DRK-12). The STEM Ed PRF Program aims to enhance the research knowledge, skills, and practices of recent doctorates in STEM, STEM education, education, and related disciplines to advance their preparation to engage in fundamental and applied research that advances knowledge within the field. The DRK-12 Program seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects.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.