Workshops to Create a Taxonomy for Engineering Education Research and Prioritize Areas of Research

这一工程教育研究项目将举办两个讲习班，目的是将工程教育研究专家和分类学家聚集在一起，了解如何识别和分类工程教育中的研究。研讨会的目标将是了解工程教育研究的范围，并允许新兴领域获得认可。这个项目的更广泛的意义和重要性将有助于了解工程教育研究投资的多样性，确定正在出现的领域，并帮助当前的研究人员使用共同的本体更好地构建他们的项目。该项目还将有助于正在进行的评估STEM教育项目组合的努力。该项目与NSF的战略目标相重叠，即通过投资于新兴的工程新领域或转移现有领域来改造边界。此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过创造对社会有用的结果和研究来实现的，这些成果和研究通过为教育政策和实践提供信息来实现。

This engineering education research project will enable two workshops with the purpose of bringing together experts in engineering education research and taxonomists to understand how to identify and classify research in engineering education. The goal of the workshops will be to understand the spectrum of engineering education research and allow emerging areas to gain recognition.The broader significance and importance of this project will be to help understand the diversity of research investments in engineering education, identify areas that are emerging, and help current researchers better frame their projects using a common ontology. The project will also help ongoing efforts to evaluate STEM education portfolios. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of transforming the frontiers by making investments that lead to emerging new fields of engineering, or shifting existing fields. Additionally NSF's goal of innovating for society is enabled by creating results and research that are useful for society by informing educational policy and practices.