In Support of Mobilizing STEM Education for a Sustainable Future

评估/研究(91)社会科学--其他(89)跨学科(99)这个项目是一个正在进行的项目的适度而重要的扩展，该项目旨在建立一个“关键顾问”团队，以制定一个新的框架，以改进中学后的资源，以应对全球挑战(DUDE-0744106)。前身项目和这一项目的直接目标都是阐明明确的新理论，以便利用高等教育机构的变革，使它们为STEM教育吸收和使用现有的循证知识和资源。一个较长期的目标是将利用高等教育变革的新理论转化为行动战略，以动员和协调STEM研究人员、教育工作者和已经寻求提高中学后STEM教育的质量和机会的组织的努力；并使STEM教育改革社区能够并保持其合作贡献。一个辅助目标是成功地鼓励高等教育机构和STEM系重新平衡它们的价值观和奖励制度，以便更容易地承认和支持教学作为当前和未来STEM教师的宝贵职业角色，作为一种形式的奖学金，并作为STEM本科生在K-12水平上受人尊敬的职业道路。这个项目扩大了关键顾问的群体。在第一年的工作中，早期的项目通过对关键知识和技能的仔细分析发现，它需要将这一群体的计划规模扩大25%。合并后的项目现在被称为“为可持续的未来动员STEM教育”项目。该项目侧重于中学后机构，这些机构在发展这些能力方面至关重要，因为它们培养了自然和计算机科学家、数学家和工程师，以及K-12教师、政策制定者和工商业工人。在他们被成功录取后，关键顾问随后的分析、创造性思维和建议将被综合起来，并分发给STEM高等教育社区。工作范围包括：(1)参加国家研究理事会计划和执行的两个研讨会，如配套赠款提案中所述；(2)筹备和参加作为本项目一部分的两个CA会议；(3)综合在两个CA会议上提出的想法和建议；以及(4)准备、介绍和分发国家奋进小组的最终报告，该报告将CA会议的综合与NRC研讨会的结果结合在一起。

Assessment / Research (91) Social Sciences - Other (89) Interdisciplinary (99) This project is a modest yet important expansion of an ongoing project to create a team of "Critical Advisors" to formulate a new framework for improving postsecondary resources to meet global challenges (DUE-0744106). The immediate goal of both the predecessor project and this project is to articulate explicit and new theory by which to leverage change in institutions of higher education such that they take up and use existing evidence-based knowledge and resources for STEM education. A longer term goal is to translate new theory for leveraging change in higher education into strategies for action that will mobilize and coordinate the efforts of STEM researchers, educators, and organizations already seeking to improve quality and access in postsecondary STEM education; and also enable and sustain the collaborative contributions of this STEM education reform community. An ancillary goal is to successfully encourage institutions of higher education and STEM departments to rebalance their values and reward systems to more readily recognize and enable teaching as a valued professional role for current and future STEM faculty, as a form of scholarship, and as a respected career path at the K-12 level for STEM undergraduates. This project enlarges the group of critical advisors. During its first year of work, the earlier project discovered through careful analysis of critical knowledge and skills that it needed to enlarge the planned size of this group by 25 percent. The combined project is now known as the "Mobilizing STEM Education for a Sustainable Future" project. The project focuses on postsecondary institutions, which are critical in developing these capacities because they educate natural and computer scientists, mathematicians, and engineers, and also K-12 teachers, policymakers, and workers in business and industry. After they are successfully recruited, the subsequent analyses, creative thinking, and recommendations of the critical advisors will be synthesized and distributed to the STEM higher education community. The scope of work entails: (1) participation in two workshops planned and executed by the National Research Council, described in a companion grant proposal; (2) preparation for and participation in two CA meetings as part of this project; (3) synthesis of ideas and recommendations offered at the two CA meetings; and (4) preparation, presentation, and distribution of a final National Endeavor Team report that integrates the synthesis of the CA meetings with the outcomes from the NRC workshops.