EAGER: Research to Practice Cooperative Strategic Development Project

美国印第安人高等教育联合会将与西班牙裔学院和大学协会、全国高等教育机会平等协会和其他利益攸关方合作，开发一种模式，以缩小扩大参与研究与实践之间的差距。项目设计团队将采用一种战略方法，为扩大利益相关者关系的参与网络制定框架，这将显著提高STEM教育计划和举措的响应能力，重点关注代表性不足的人群，以获得相关研究结果，计划评估和从中得出的建议。本项目将把合作理论应用于国家扩大参与之间联系的管理问题，（可能更广泛地学习科学）研究资源和扩大参与实践。该项目的成功已经确定，现实世界的资源分配问题的模拟访问的分布式问题解决能力的密切互动的群体共享一套共同的意图，并涉及一组不同的演员，包括广泛的知识分布和激励系统是有效的解决资源分配问题在一个复杂的资源生态系统。战略规划项目将检验在这一框架内可解决从研究到实践的广泛参与问题的假设。更广泛的影响：该项目将确定战略方法对一个重大国家资源管理问题的适用性，从而为解决包括教育改革在内的广泛的国家问题和更广泛的社会动态领域内的其他问题提供一个模式。拟议的工作将提供丰富的数据集，用于在涉及广泛行业、社区、政府和组织的复杂利益相关者生态系统中定制未来的战略迭代。

The American Indian Higher Education Consortium, in collaboration with the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, and other stakeholders, will develop a model for closing the gap between broadening participation research and practice. The project design team will employ a strategic methodology, to develop the framework for a broadening participation network of stakeholder relationships, which should significantly increase the responsiveness of STEM education programs and initiatives focusing on underrepresented populations to relevant research findings, program evaluations, and recommendations derived from them.Intellectual Merit:The project will apply cooperative theories to the problem of the management of the connection between national broadening participation (and possibly more broadly learning sciences) research resources and broadening participation practice. The successes of the project have established that simulations of real-world resource allocation problems access the distributed problem-solving ability of closely interacting groups sharing a common set of intentions, and that involving a diverse set of actors encompassing a broad distribution of knowledge and motivational systems is effective in solving resource allocation problems within a complex resource ecosystem. The strategic planning project will test the hypothesis that the Broadening Participation Research to Practice problem is solvable within this framework.Broader Impacts:The project will establish the applicability of strategic methodology to a major national resource management issue, thereby providing confirmation of a model for addressing a broad range of national issues, including education reform, and other problems within the broader sphere of social dynamics. The proposed work will provide a rich data set that will be used to customize future strategic iterations within complex stakeholder ecosystems involving a wide range of industries, communities, governments, and organizations.