Toward a National Endeavor to Marshal Postsecondary STEM Education Resources to Meet Global Challenges: A Planning Proposal

评估/研究(91)该项目由两次规划会议和一次讲习班组成，旨在寻求在全国范围内更连贯、更全面、更持续和更综合地改进所有教育级别的STEM教育。其依据是2006年11月其四个私人投资机构与国家研究理事会专家举行的第一次会议。11月的会议的重点是在过去20年密集研究和试验的基础上，制定一个改进STEM教育的新框架。该项目旨在为STEM教育创建一个新的基础设施，以提高我们国家的能力，创造一支接受STEM教育的公民和劳动力，以应对前所未有的全球挑战。该项目首先于2006年11月召开了一次会议，随后举行了第二次较大的会议(讲习班)，选出了代表关键观点和高级专门知识的关键顾问，最后将举行初步规划小组第三次会议，以根据关键顾问的意见制定行动计划的建议，以推进这一愿景。该项目主要关注本科STEM教育，包括其在K-12教师招聘和准备中的关键作用。项目目标既反映了智力上的优点，也反映了更广泛的影响。最终目标是：使中学后STEM创新者能够在有效的国家框架内以更协调一致的方式合作；确保STEM教育的设计充分基于对适当研究结果和成就的分析和综合；更全面地解决体制改革的障碍，以便高等教育机构能够提高STEM教育的质量；并设计方法，在以研究为基础的教育原则和实践的基础上，推出系统的方法来发展现有和未来的教员。

Assessment/Research (91)This project is a set of two planning meetings and one workshop in pursuit of a more coherent, comprehensive, sustained, and integrated nationwide approach to the improvement of STEM education across all educational levels. It is based on an initial meeting of its four PIs with experts from the National Research Council in November 2006. That November meeting was focused on developing a new framework for improving STEM education, building on the knowledge and resources developed over the last two decades of intensive research and experiment. This project seeks to create a new infrastructure for STEM education to increase the capacity of our nation to create a STEM-educated citizenry and workforce to address unprecedented global challenges. This project begins with a meeting of those initially gathered in November 2006, proceeds to a second larger meeting (workshop) with critical advisors chosen to represent key perspectives and high-level expertise, and will conclude with a third meeting of the initial planning group to develop recommendations for a plan of action to carry the vision forward based on input from the critical advisors. This project is focused primarily on undergraduate STEM education, including its critical role in K-12 teacher recruitment and preparation. The project goals reflect both intellectual merit and broader impacts. The ultimate goals are:To enable postsecondary STEM innovators to work together in more coordinated and coherent ways within an effective national framework; To ensure that the design of STEM education is fully based on analyses and syntheses of appropriate research findings and accomplishments;To address barriers to institutional change more fully, so that postsecondary institutions can improve quality in STEM education; and To devise methods for launching systemic approaches to the professional development of current and future faculty built on research-grounded educational principles and practices.