Leadership Support for the Board on Science Education

在这笔赠款提供的基线支持下，国家研究委员会(NRC)科学教育委员会(BOSE)将在未来五年协调NSF教育和人力资源局(EHR)内部领导层与NRC内部专注于STEM教育的单位的领导层之间的一系列定期、结构化的会议。这些会议将集中讨论科学教育和科学教育研究中新出现的想法或紧迫的问题。NRC的数学科学教育委员会于2008年解散。该项目为在BOSE内部重建数学教育专业知识提供了支持，反映了改进数学教育实践的日益重要的意义。一个由六名数学教育研究专家组成的小组将参加玻色的定期会议。由于纳入了数学专业知识，该项目提供了各种资源，以便在整个STEM范围内及时提出想法和问题。提供以证据为基础的战略来解决科学或STEM教育方面的不足，是BOSE项目组合中的项目的主要贡献之一。在将NRC/BOSE与NSF/EHR联系起来的过程中，它们的互为补充的任务构成了制定共同设计的议程的背景，该议程既投资于STEM教育研究，又整合了研究界获得的成果。将NSF支持的发现过程与NRC报告中可以传达的反思、解释性和独立的工作相结合，并通过BOSE的召集力量，将在很大程度上促进国家STEM教育研究议程的相关性和适用性。这项提议将通过加强Bose建立的网络与NSF通过其审查小组收集的专家意见、涉及其PI的定期会议以及其项目官员的专业知识之间的更大合作和互动，来帮助形成该议程的重点。上一次5年期赠款的结果是非常有成效的。例如，Bose以循证、公正指导的声誉在最近两个项目中发挥了重要作用，这些项目有望改变美国的K-12科学教育：K-12科学教育框架(下一代科学标准的蓝图)和关于成功的STEM教育的两份报告系列，其中列出了改进STEM教育的建议，并概述了一套可用于监测这些改进进展的指标：成功的K-12 STEM教育(2011年)和监测成功的K-12 STEM教育(2013)。2012年Bose Consensus报告--基于学科的教育研究(2012)--总结了物理、天文学、化学、地球科学、生物科学和工程学方面的教育和学习研究成果。它为提高这些领域的本科教育质量提出了建议，这些建议与全国各地的重大改革举措相吻合。

With the baseline support provided by this grant, the Board on Science Education (BOSE) of the National Research Council (NRC) will coordinate a series of regular, structured meetings over the next five years between the leadership within the NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) and the leadership of units within the NRC that focus on STEM education. These meetings will focus on emerging ideas or pressing issues in science education and science education research. The Mathematical Sciences Education Board of the NRC was disbanded in 2008. This project provides support to re-establish mathematics education expertise within BOSE, reflecting the growing importance of improved practice in mathematics education. A group of six experts in math education research will join regular BOSE meetings. With the inclusion of mathematics expertise this project provides the resources to pursue ideas and issues in a timely manner across the full spectrum of STEM. Providing evidence-based strategies to address deficiencies in science or STEM education is one of the major contributions of projects in the BOSE portfolio. In connecting NRC/BOSE to NSF/EHR, their complementary missions form a context for developing a jointly designed agenda for both investing in research on STEM education and for integrating the findings obtained by the research community. Combining the discovery process supported by NSF and the reflective, interpretive, independent work that can be conveyed in NRC reports and through the convening power of BOSE will advance the relevance and applicability of the national STEM education research agenda in significant ways. This proposal will help to shape the focus of that agenda through greater collaboration and interaction between the networks established by BOSE and the expert advice gathered by NSF through its review panels, regular conferences involving its PIs, and the expertise of its program officers. Results from the last 5-year grant were very productive. For examples, the reputation of BOSE for evidence-based, impartial guidance was instrumental in two recent projects that hold promise for transforming K-12 science education in the United States: A Framework for K-12 Science Education (the blueprint for the Next Generation Science Standards) and a two-report series on successful STEM education that lays out recommendations for improving STEM education and outlines a set of indicators that can be used to monitor progress toward these improvements: Successful K-12 STEM Education (2011), and Monitoring Successful K-12 STEM Education (2013). The 2012 BOSE consensus report - Discipline Based Education Research (2012) - summarized findings from education and learning research in physics, astronomy, chemistry, geo-sciences, the biological sciences, and engineering. It provided recommendations for improving the quality of undergraduate education in these fields that dovetail with major reform initiatives throughout the country.