Conference: Supporting Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Readiness for STEM Education Research Teams

大学间政治和社会研究联盟(ICPSR)将主办一次研讨会，由NSF资助的团队将致力于STEM教育研究的中型研究基础设施孵化器项目聚集在一起，重点关注教育公平(见NSF 22-085)。ICPSR将共享信息、资源，并支持孵化器团队开发和管理中型基础设施项目。这些孵化器项目确定了与评估、教师做法和支持学生学习的数字工具有关的研究基础设施缺口，并提出了用于填补这些缺口的试点工具、网络基础设施、大规模数据集等。为了扩大这些试点，团队将需要成功地制定建议，以创建中等规模的研究基础设施(MidScale RI)。然而，中等规模的RI提案需要的专业知识在STEM教育研究社区中并不常见，因此可能会限制社区开发有竞争力的中型RI提案的能力。研讨会的目标是促进DCL中描述的项目的研究人员和工作人员的工作：关注教育公平的STEM教育研究的中型研究基础设施(MidScale RI)孵化器和会议。ICPSR的教职员工通过同行STEM教育研究中心深入参与支持STEM教育研究社区，并通过研究数据生态系统对NSF中型RI计划具有丰富的经验，这是一个中型RI项目，构建软件以支持透明和可重复的研究数据生命周期。研讨会将借鉴这些经验，通过提供项目管理、项目执行计划的制定和使用、工作分解结构、风险登记、应急计划、以人为本的设计以及成功项目所必需的实施和报告方面的培训，培养孵化器团队构思和实施中型RI项目的能力。ICPSR将提供一个结构化的论坛，在其中孵化器团队可以相互学习，建立共同的兴趣点，并建立一个持续的实践社区，以促进未来的合作努力。作为研讨会的结果，孵化器团队将更有可能实现他们的孵化器项目的愿景，导致STEM教育研究有希望的新进展，这些研究是专门针对教育公平而开发的。该项目得到了NSF的EDU核心研究(ECR)计划和NSF的发现研究PRK-12计划(DRK-12)的支持。ECR计划强调基础STEM教育研究，以产生该领域的基础知识。在基本、广泛和持久的关键领域进行投资：STEM学习和STEM学习环境，扩大STEM的参与，以及STEM劳动力发展。DRK-12计划旨在通过研究和开发创新的资源、模型和工具，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。 -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。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) will host a workshop that brings together NSF-funded teams working on midscale research infrastructure incubator projects for STEM education research with a focus on education equity (see NSF 22-085). ICPSR will share information, resources, and support incubator teams in developing and managing mid-scale infrastructure projects. These incubator projects have identified research infrastructure gaps related to assessments, teacher practices, and digital tools to support student learning and have proposed pilot tools, cyberinfrastructure, large-scale datasets, etc., for filling these gaps. To scale these pilots, the teams will need to successfully develop proposals to create mid-scale research infrastructure (Midscale RI). However, Midscale RI proposals require specialized knowledge that is not common within the STEM education research community and thus may limit the community’s ability to develop competitive Midscale RI proposals.The goal of the workshop is to advance the work of researchers and staff from projects funded under the effort described in the DCL: Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure (Midscale RI) Incubators and Conferences for STEM Education Research with a Focus on Education Equity. ICPSR faculty and staff are deeply involved in supporting the STEM education research community through the PEERS STEM education research hub and are experienced with the NSF Midscale RI program through Research Data Ecosystem, a Midscale RI project building software to support a transparent and reproducible research data lifecycle. The workshop will draw on these experiences to build the capacity of the incubator teams to conceive and implement Midscale RI projects by providing training in project management, the development of and use of project execution plans, work breakdown structures, risk registers, contingency planning, human-centered design, and the implementation and reporting necessary for successful projects. ICPSR will provide a structured forum in which the incubator teams can learn from one another, establish common points of interest, and establish an ongoing community of practice to foster collaborative efforts going forward. As a result of the workshop, incubator teams will be more likely to realize the visions of their incubator projects, leading to promising new advancements in STEM education research that are developed specifically with a focus on education equity.This project is supported by NSF's EDU Core Research (ECR) program and NSF’s Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12). 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 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.