International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography

本项目是根据EHR核心研究（ECR）项目公告NSF 19-508提交的。STEM教育基础研究ECR项目为重要、广泛和持久的关键研究领域提供资金。ECR支持在以下重点领域帮助综合、建立和/或扩展研究基础的项目：STEM学习、STEM学习环境、STEM劳动力发展和扩大STEM参与。ECR项目的特点是强调积累有力的证据，为以下方面的努力提供信息：(a)理解，(b)建立理论来解释，(c)提出干预（和创新）措施，以解决STEM兴趣、教育、学习和参与方面的持续挑战。这次会议将在佩珀代因大学校园举行，将建立国家科学基金会支持的社区的能力，使其受益于极有前途的定量人种学（QE）研究方法。这个为年轻学者举办的培训研讨会，嵌入在会议中，通过发展一个早期职业研究人员社区，在基础STEM教育研究中仔细使用定量人种志，来支持ECR项目的目标。这些学者将准备检验和实证检验与ECR计划的中心目标一致的新理论。该基金将支持：a)在美国为博士和早期职业研究人员举行的量化宽松国际会议的出席和培训，b)由几名参与研究人员为这些年轻学者领导的技术沉浸式会前研讨会，以及c)代表NSF支持的量化宽松方法可以显著受益的学科的更广泛的研讨会演讲者。这次会议的学术价值来自QE在众多领域的吸引力或前景。拟议的活动是围绕扩大量化宽松的知识价值对新学科的影响来组织的。该项目始终强调为下一代研究人员提供概念和软件工具和方法，以解决NSF支持的社会科学、基础STEM教育研究和学习科学领域当前和未来的重要问题。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project was submitted in response to EHR Core Research (ECR) program announcement NSF 19-508. The ECR program of fundamental research in STEM education provides funding in critical research areas that are essential, broad and enduring. ECR supports projects that help synthesize, build and/or expand research foundations in the following focal areas: STEM learning, STEM learning environments, STEM workforce development, and broadening participation in STEM. The ECR program is distinguished by its emphasis on the accumulation of robust evidence to inform efforts to (a) understand, (b) build theory to explain, and (c) suggest interventions (and innovations) to address persistent challenges in STEM interest, education, learning, and participation. This conference, to be held at the Pepperdine University campus, will build the capacity of NSF-supported communities to benefit from the highly promising research methodology of quantitative ethnography (QE). This training workshop for young scholars, embedded in conference, supports the goals of the ECR program by developing a community of early career researchers to carefully use quantitative ethnography in the conduct of basic STEM education research. These scholars will be prepared to examine and empirically test new theory consistent with the central goals of the ECR program. The funding will support: a) attendance and training at an international conference on QE for doctoral and early career researchers to be held in the U.S., b) a technical immersion preconference workshop that several of participating researchers would lead for these young scholars, and c) a broader slate of symposium speakers who represent NSF supported disciplines that QE methods can benefit significantly.The intellectual merit of the conference arises both from the appeal or promise of QE across numerous fields. The proposed activities are organized around broadening the impact of QE’s intellectual merit across new disciplines. The project maintains a consistent emphasis on furnishing next-generation researchers with conceptual and software tools and methodology to address important current and future questions across the spectrum of fields NSF supports in social sciences, basic STEM education research, and the learning sciences.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.