EAGER: Study of Longitudinal results and the I CORPS L Ecosystem

该项目将对国家科学基金学习创新团队(L)团队所取得的成果进行研究，并将分析在帮助教育创新获得更广泛的应用和影响方面取得成功的具体活动。NSF的创新团队学习计划从教育研究和开发中获取发现和有前景的实践，并提供支持，以帮助更广泛地采用这些STEM教育和学习创新。I-Corps L团队以指导和资金的形式获得支持，以可持续的方式加快教育创新的规模。该项目将检验I-Corps L的结果，并确定参与团队的成员是否以及如何应用他们通过I-Corps L所学到的知识。这项工作将确定并监督参与i-Corps L对团队扩大教育创新以及团队成员的专业发展的结果。该项目将寻求确定教育系统中对i-Corps L团队成功扩大和保持其STEM教育相关创新最有用的关键特征和途径。这项研究将使人们更好地了解i-Corps L项目所取得的长期成果。这些信息将有助于帮助其他教育创新取得更大的影响。该项目将记录2015年和2016年初接受培训的三个i-Corp L队列的纵向成果，并将使人们更好地了解导致他们相对成功的条件。调查将以两个主要问题为指导。第一，参加I-Corps L对团队的创新、团队成员的个人和专业发展有什么结果？其次，i-Corps L团队成员寻求成功扩展和维持他们与STEM教育相关的创新的生态系统的关键特征和途径是什么？通过对参与者、专家和教育企业家的调查和采访，该项目将记录参加i-Corps L团队的中长期成果、团队创新、团队成员的个人和专业发展以及与i-Corps L过程相关的因素；并确定和定义i-Corps L团队成员寻求成功扩展和持续其STEM教育相关创新的生态系统(S)中的关键特征和路径。结果将包括一系列建议和意见，以支持未来对包括i-Corps L在内的国家科学基金会教育项目的研究和评估，以及对国家科学基金会的角色和政策的建议，旨在扩大STEM教育创新。这项研究将成为围绕STEM教育相关创业研究的新兴文献的一部分。

This project will conduct a study of the outcomes achieved by teams in the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps for Learning Program (NSF I-Corps L) and will analyze the specific activities found to be successful in helping educational innovations achieve wider use and impact. NSF's Innovation Corps for Learning Program takes discoveries and promising practices from education research and development and provides support to help achieve broader adoption of these STEM education and learning innovations. I-Corps L teams receive support in the form of mentoring and funding to accelerate scaling of educational innovations in a sustainable manner. This project will examine the results from I-Corps L and determine if and how the participating team members apply what they learned through I-Corps L. This work will identify and monitor the outcomes of participation in I-Corps L on the scaling up educational innovations of the team as well as the professional development of the team members. The project will seek to identify the key features and pathways in the educational systems which are most useful to I-Corps L teams in successfully scaling up and sustaining their STEM education-related innovations. This study will provide a better understanding of the long-term outcomes achieved by the I-Corps L program. This information will be useful in helping other educational innovations to achieve greater impact. This project will document the longitudinal outcomes of the three I-Corps L cohorts trained in 2015 and early 2016 and will create a greater understanding of the conditions that are responsible for their relative success. The investigation will be guided by two main questions. First, what are the outcomes of participation in I-Corps L on the teams' innovations, the team members' personal and professional development? Second, what are the key features of and pathways within the ecosystems in which I-Corps L team members seek to successfully scale and sustain their STEM education-related innovations? Through surveys and interviews with participants, experts and education entrepreneurs the project will document the intermediate and long-term outcomes of participation in I-Corps L on the teams' innovations and on team members' personal and professional development and the factors associated with the I-Corps L process; and identify and define the key features and pathways in the ecosystem(s) in which I-Corps L team members seek to successfully scale and sustain their STEM education-related innovations. Results will include a set of recommendations and observations to support future research and evaluation of NSF education programs including I-Corps L and recommendations for NSF's role and policies directed to scaling STEM educational innovations. This study will become part of an emerging body of literature around educational related entrepreneurial studies in STEM.