Workshop: Building Research Capacity in Engineering Education Through a RIEF Virtual Community of Practice

研讨会：通过 RIEF 虚拟实践社区建设工程教育研究能力

• 批准号: 2407082
• 负责人: Julie Martin
• 金额: $ 17.34万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2407082&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Building; Research; Capacity; Engineering

This project will expand capacity for engineering education research by facilitating a virtual community for engineering faculty and students who are learning educational research methods for the first time. In doing so, the project will ultimately support the adoption of research-based practices in the classroom and inform advising, programming, and policies. Sustained engagement of engineering faculty in educational research will create synergies between engineering education research and engineering education practice. In particular, the project will perpetuate a series of virtual workshops, publish downloadable information sheets, and create short videos for novice engineering education researchers. The workshops will facilitate a collaborative community of new educational researchers and experienced mentors that will help them integrate into the educational research community. The knowledge and connections the novice researchers gain will positively influence their success applying for future engineering projects funded by the NSF. Outcomes of the project include 1) publicly available, archived resources about research in engineering education, (2) a community of practice that supports the success of new engineering education researchers, and (3) an understanding of how the community created by the project influences novice researchers’ engagement in the larger research community and how mentors help them build networks and knowledge for such research.The virtual workshop series will provide training, structured support, and a virtual community of practice for NSF Research Initiation in Engineering Formation program awardees to promote their sustained engagement in engineering education research through the development of research-related social capital, which enhances the flow of information, develops desirable credentials, and reinforces research identity. The team will use social network analysis and surveys throughout the two-year project to study how interactions (1) among Research Initiation in Engineering Formation program mentees and mentors and (2) between mentees and established members of the engineering education research community influence the development of research-related social capital. The workshops will support the success of funded Research Initiation in Engineering Formation projects, helping program participants fully integrate into the engineering education research community during and beyond their grant cycle. It will minimize duplication of efforts by providing mentors with access to resources, an external support structure for mentees to learn about common research practices, and a community of other research mentors. The project will build participants’ professional networks by increasing availability and accessibility of past and present program mentees and mentors, engineering education research content experts, people in leadership positions in the field, potential future collaborators, and others. It will accelerate participants’ development of both strong and weak ties and facilitate their purposive use of those embedded resources to help program mentees accomplish their engineering education research goals during the two-year Research Initiation in Engineering Formation grant cycle and beyond. The project will study the impact of participation in a community of practice in developing engineering faculty in engineering education research as well as identify how program mentors effectively build mentee social capital. The work will benefit any novice engineering education researchers by creating and curating additional public resources. In addition, the project will build research capacity for current and future Research Initiation in Engineering Formation projects as well as other NSF programs.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.

该项目将通过促进第一次学习教育研究方法的工程教师的虚拟社区来扩大工程教育研究的能力。通过这样做，该项目最终将支持在课堂上采用基于研究的实践，并为咨询，编程和政策提供信息。工程教师参与教育研究的持续参与将在工程教育研究与工程教育实践之间产生协同作用。特别是，该项目将使一系列虚拟研讨会持续，发布可下载的信息表，并为喷嘴工程教育研究人员创建简短的视频。这些研讨会将支持一个由新的教育研究人员组成的协作社区，并有助于他们融入教育研究社区。新颖的研究人员获得的知识和联系将对他们的成功产生积极影响，以适用于NSF资助的未来工程项目。该项目的成果包括1）公开可用，有关工程教育研究的资源，（2）支持新工程教育研究人员成功的实践社区，以及（3）对项目创建的社区的理解，该项目如何影响新的研究人员在较大的研究社区中的参与度如何影响较大的研究社区，以及如何为这些研究提供了培训社区的培训社区。形成计划的获奖者通过发展与研究相关的社会资本来促进其持续参与工程教育研究，从而增强了信息流，发展理想的证书并增强了研究身份。该团队将在整个为期两年的项目中使用社交网络分析和调查，以研究工程形成计划月经和导师的研究启动之间的互动（1）以及（2）男性与工程教育研究社区的成员之间如何影响研究相关的社会资本的发展。研讨会将支持在工程组成项目中获得资助的研究启动的成功，帮助计划参与者在其赠款周期期间和超越工程教育研究社区中完全集成。它将通过为导师提供资源的访问，导师学习常见研究实践的外部支持结构以及其他研究导师的社区来最大程度地减少努力的重复。该项目将通过增加过去和现在的计划导师，工程教育研究内容专家，领域领导职位，潜在的未来合作者等的可用性和可访问性来建立参与者的专业网络。它将加速参与者的牢固和弱关系的发展，并促进他们自然使用这些嵌入式资源，以帮助计划导师在两年的工程格式赠款周期及以后的两年研究启动期间实现其工程教育研究目标。该项目将研究参与一个实践社区在开发工程教育研究方面的实践社区的影响，并确定计划指导如何有效地建立Menetee社会资本。这项工作将通过创建和策划其他公共资源来使任何新型的工程教育研究人员受益。此外，该项目将在工程组项目以及其他NSF计划中为当前和未来的研究启动增强研究能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估审查标准，认为通过评估被认为是宝贵的支持。