Building Capacity for Future Engineering Education Research and Scholarship

科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教育对社会有很大的好处，从支持造福人类的新技术发展到培养21世纪的劳动力。随着社会需求的变化，我们的国家？S教育体系需要适应，开发与不断变化的技术保持同步的新教育内容，吸引懂计算机的学生参与的新教学方法，以及建立在我们对有效学习如何发生的日益增长的知识基础上。由这项提议资助的研讨会将使发现如何改进STEM教育的工程教育研究人员能够更有效地将最新发现传达给那些帮助制定和实施教育政策的人。如果美国教育系统要继续有效地适应21世纪的挑战，这种沟通是至关重要的。为了帮助建立强有力的沟通渠道，研讨会汇集了工程教育领域的领导者和新兴领导者、公共和私营部门的政策制定者，以及使用连锁转介抽样影响政策决策的组织的代表。讲习班使用了一个框架，旨在制定能够与构成工程教育生态系统的不同实体产生共鸣的价值主张；这些实体在讲习班上有代表。深入评价将收集可操作的经验教训，可为其他社区的相关努力提供参考。讲习班具有潜在的广泛影响，因为它建立了能力，以便更有效地实施对影响当前和未来大量学生的教育政策决策的研究结果。讨论了更大的工程教育系统中所需的不同要素的参与。

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education has great benefits to society, from supporting new technological developments that benefit humanity to preparing a 21st century workforce. As societal needs change, our nation?s education system needs to adapt by developing new educational content that stays abreast of changing technology, new ways of teaching that engage computer-literate students, and building on our increasing knowledge of how effective learning occurs. The workshop funded in this proposal will better allow the engineering education researchers who discover how to improve STEM education to effectively communicate the latest discoveries to those who help devise and implement education policy. Such communication is critical if the United States education system is to continue to effectively adapt to 21st century challenges. To help build robust communication channels, the workshop brings together leaders and emerging leaders in engineering education, policy makers in both the public and private sectors, and representatives of organizations that impact policy decisions using chain-referral sampling. The workshop uses a framework designed to develop value propositions that can resonate with the diverse entities that make up the engineering education ecosystem; these entities are represented at the workshop. In-depth evaluation will capture actionable lessons that can inform related efforts in other communities. The workshop has potentially broad impact since it builds capacity for more effectively implementing findings from research into the educational policy decisions that affect large numbers of current and future students. Participation of the needed diverse elements of the larger engineering education system is addressed.