STEM Educational Change Efforts in Higher Education: A Meta-Synthesis of Activities, Strategies, Concepts, and Theories across Disciplines

本项目拟对以下三个领域学者的研究文献和观点进行批判性回顾、整合和整合：基于学科的STEM教育研究人员（SER），专注于课程和教学材料的变化；教师发展研究人员（FDR），专注于教师的变革；高等教育研究人员（HER），评估支持或阻碍变革的各个组织层面的政策和结构。该方法将是三个研究文献的综合，然后是一个4x4分类方案：变革活动和战略的变革概念和理论，对未来的工作最有希望。（每篇文献将被划分为一个或多个分类，具有可靠证据的文献将在方案中优先考虑。）该项目的最终目标是支持STEM教学改进的跨学科研究和实践议程的发展。这一过程将通过与每个领域的10名主要从业人员的访谈来加强，随后采用德尔菲技术，因为实践通常没有在文献中具体说明。该综合项目的成果将用于确定：1)跨社区的变化活动、策略、概念和理论；2)不同文献中的共同主题；3)支持每项变革活动和策略的证据；4)未来研究、理论建设和资助的有希望的方向。

This project proposes to critically review, integrate, and align the research literatures and perspectives of scholars in three fields: the Disciplinary-based STEM Education Researchers (SER), who focus on change in curricula and pedagogical materials; the Faculty Development Researchers (FDR), who focus on changing faculty and the Higher Education Researchers (HER) who evaluate the policies and structures at various organizational levels that support or impede change. The method will be a meta-synthesis of the three research literatures followed by a four x four classification scheme: change activities and strategies by change concepts and theories that have the most promise for future work. (One or more classifications will be given to each literature entry and literature with credible evidence will be given priority in the scheme.)The ultimate aim of the project is to support the development of an interdisciplinary research and practice agenda for STEM instructional improvement. This process will be strengthened by interviews with 10 leading practitioners in each area followed by the Delphi technique, because practice is often not specified in the literature. The outcomes of this synthesis project will be used to identify: 1) change activities, strategies, concepts, and theories across communities 2) common themes among disparate literatures; 3) evidence to support each change activity and strategy; and 4) promising directions for future research, theory-building, and funding.