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

校际政治和社会研究联盟（ICPSR）将举办一个研讨会，汇集NSF资助的团队，致力于STEM教育研究的中型研究基础设施孵化器项目，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。这些孵化器项目已经确定了与评估、教师实践和支持学生学习的数字化工具相关的研究基础设施差距，并提出了试点工具、网络基础设施、大规模数据集等，来填补这些空白。为了扩大这些试点项目的规模，这些团队需要成功地制定创建中型研究基础设施（Midscale RI）的提案。然而，中型RI提案需要STEM教育研究社区中不常见的专业知识，因此可能会限制社区制定有竞争力的中型RI提案的能力。研讨会的目标是推进DCL中所述工作资助项目的研究人员和工作人员的工作：中型研究基础设施（中型RI）孵化器和STEM教育研究会议，重点是教育公平。ICPSR的教职员工通过PEERS 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（一个中型RI项目构建软件，以支持透明和可复制的研究数据生命周期）体验NSF中型RI计划。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、风险登记册、应急计划、以人为本的设计以及成功项目所需的实施和报告等方面的培训，培养孵化器团队构思和实施中型国际扶轮项目的能力。ICPSR将提供一个结构化的论坛，孵化器团队可以在其中相互学习，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。通过此次研讨会，孵化器团队将更有可能实现孵化器项目的愿景，从而为STEM教育研究带来有希望的新进展，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preK-12计划（DRK-12）的支持。ECR计划强调基础STEM教育研究，产生该领域的基础知识。投资是在关键领域是必不可少的，广泛的和持久的：干学习和干学习环境，扩大参与干，干劳动力发展。 DRK-12计划旨在通过研究和开发创新资源，模型和工具，显着提高preK-12学生和教师的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的学习和教学。DRK-12项目中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究以及为拟议项目提供理论和经验依据的先前研究和开发工作的基础上。该奖项反映了NSF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。

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.