Multi-stakeholder workshop to streamline dissemination of evidence-based graduate education practices

STEM本科教育研究在过去几十年中发展起来，包括许多支持严格评估和传播本科科学教育方法的框架。相比之下，STEM研究生教育研究尚未制定足够的框架（例如，期刊、会议）。这导致循证方法的传播效率低下，并在实施有效做法方面遇到挑战。这个国家科学基金会奖给马萨诸塞州医学院的大学将支持一个研讨会，该研讨会将采取行动，为博士STEM教育传播基于证据的教育方法开发资源和框架，特别关注博士职业发展的有效实践，这是研究生教育中一个快速增长的领域，迫切需要传播。该研讨会将有助于培养一个多利益相关者社区，共同关注，对研究生教育的热情，并希望推进教育实践，提高博士科学家的职业准备。通过本次研讨会确定的优先事项和下一步措施将为未来的举措奠定基础，并使STEM博士课程能够更有效地解决下一代科学家的培训需求。为期一天半的研讨会将重点关注一个领域，该领域一直被强调为STEM研究生教育的国家报告中的需求，但很少受到关注：缺乏国家基础设施来协调和管理支持创新博士教育模式的材料的传播。该研讨会将汇集具有传播，评估，职业发展和研究生教育专业知识的利益相关者，以确定可采取的下一步措施，以加强传播和实施基于证据的教育方法，促进博士职业发展。该研讨会将采用小组演讲、以专家为重点的小组讨论、混合专业知识的小组讨论和完整的小组报告，以确定最关键的问题和建议的行动，以传播循证实践。研讨会将根据主要利益攸关方群体的不同观点，编制一份关于传播和实施教育模式的需求、挑战和障碍的清单，并将确定一份建议采取的后续步骤清单，包括每个利益攸关方群体如何为加强评估和传播各种方法作出贡献。研讨会将产生一份综合调查结果的报告，包括侧重于个人、利益攸关方团体和国家努力的可采取的后续步骤。该报告将帮助利益相关者以协调的方式采取明智的行动，以避免冗余和扩大投资。该提案由NSF研究培训（NRT）计划资助。 该NRT计划（17-585/18-507）旨在鼓励开发和实施新的，潜在的变革性模型或方法，为STEM研究生教育培训，以解决不断变化的劳动力和研究需求。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

STEM undergraduate education research has developed over the past decades to include numerous frameworks that support rigorous evaluation and dissemination of undergraduate science education approaches. By contrast, STEM graduate education research has not yet developed sufficient frameworks (e.g., journals, conferences). This has led to inefficient dissemination of evidence-based approaches and challenges for implementation of effective practices. This National Science Foundation award to the University of Massachusetts Medical School will support a workshop that will seed action to develop resources and frameworks for disseminating evidence-based educational approaches for doctoral STEM education, with a particular focus on effective practices for PhD career development, a rapidly growing field within graduate education that has urgent dissemination needs. The workshop will serve to cultivate a multi-stakeholder community with shared concerns, a passion for graduate education, and a desire to advance educational practices that enhance the career preparedness of PhD scientists. The priorities and next steps identified through this workshop will seed future initiatives and enable STEM doctoral programs to more effectively and efficiently address the training needs for the next generation of scientists.The one-and-a-half-day workshop will focus on an area that is consistently highlighted as a need in national reports on STEM graduate education, but which has received little attention: the lack of a national infrastructure for coordinating and curating dissemination of materials supporting innovative doctoral educational models. The workshop will bring together stakeholders with expertise spanning dissemination, evaluation, career development, and graduate education, to define actionable next steps for enhancing the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based educational approaches for PhD career development. This workshop will use panel presentations, stakeholder-focused group discussions, mixed-expertise small group discussions, and full group report-outs to define the most critical issues and recommended actions for dissemination of evidence-based practices. The workshop will generate a list of the needs, challenges, and barriers to dissemination and implementation of educational models, informed by the diverse viewpoints of key stakeholder groups, and will identify a list of recommended next steps, including how each stakeholder group can contribute to enhancing evaluation and dissemination of approaches. The workshop will result in a report synthesizing findings, including actionable next steps focused on individual, stakeholder group, and national efforts. This report will help stakeholders take informed action in a coordinated manner to avoid redundancy and amplify investments.This proposal is funded by the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program. The NRT Program (17-585/18-507) is designed to encourage the development and implementation of new, potentially transformative models or approaches for STEM graduate education training that address changing workforce and research needs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.