Targeted Research on Technician Education: Community College Partnership Models for Workforce Education Sustainability and Integrated Instruction

SRI国际学习技术中心、Ames&amp；Associates和四个先进技术教育(ATE)中心(华盛顿州贝尔维尤社区学院的国家新兴技术劳动力中心(NWCET)、俄亥俄州辛克莱社区学院的国家制造业教育中心(NCME)、马萨诸塞州斯普林菲尔德技术社区学院的国家信息和通信技术(ICT)中心以及田纳西州纳什维尔的信息技术教育中心(CITE))联合开展了一项为期四年的研究。这项有针对性的研究研究的目标是：(1)描述将行业目标整合到课堂中的伙伴关系模式；(2)确定指导和转变教学的方法；(3)传播可用于伙伴关系建设和劳动力整合教学的工具和材料；(4)创建一个框架，为未来对导致学习型大学文化的机制的研究提供信息。智力价值：这项有针对性的研究采用了多方法、多地点的方法来检查行业-社区大学合作伙伴关系的有效性和ATE赞助的教学方法的工作场所相关性。这项研究的结果有可能产生一个分析框架，指导未来社区大学用来支持课程和教学持续改进的机制的研究设计。更广泛的影响：这一努力产生了有用的工具和材料，供从业者深化行业与社区大学的合作伙伴关系，并通过特定的教学技术将行业目标整合到技术员和转学分课堂中。增加的案例研究深入研究了行业-社区大学合作伙伴关系如何优先考虑代表不足的群体的需求，并通过课堂教学实践解决这些需求。

Community College Partnership Models for Workforce Education Sustainability and Integrated InstructionSRI International's Center for Technology in Learning, Ames & Associates, and four Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Centers (The National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET) at Bellevue Community College in Washington, the National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME) at Sinclair Community College in Ohio, the National Center for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Center at Springfield Technical Community College in Massachusetts, and the Center for Information Technology Education (CITE) in Nashville, Tennessee) join forces in a four-year research study. The goals of the targeted research study are to (1) describe partnership models to integrate industry goals in the classroom; (2) characterize approaches for guiding and transforming instruction; (3) disseminate useable tools and materials for partnership building and workforce-integrated instruction; and (4) create a framework to inform future research into the mechanism that lead to a learning college culture. Intellectual Merit: The targeted research study takes a multi-method, multi-site approach to examine the effectiveness of industry-community college partnerships and workplace relevance of ATE-sponsored instructional approaches. The results of the research have the potential of producing an analytic framework to guide the design of future studies into the mechanisms that community colleges use to support continuous improvement in curriculum and instruction. Broader Impact: This effort results in the production of usable tools and materials for practitioners to deepen industry-community college partnerships and to integrate industry goals into both technician and transfer-credit classrooms through specific instructional techniques. The addition of case studies provides an in-depth examination of how industry-community college partnerships prioritize the needs of underrepresented groups and address them through classroom instructional practices.