Fourth International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography (ICQE22)

ECR的STEM教育研究能力建设项目（ECR: BCSER）支持培养个人开展高质量STEM教育研究的能力的项目，这些研究将增强美国的STEM教育事业，扩大能够在STEM学习和学习环境中进行基础研究的研究人员的数量，扩大STEM领域的参与，以及STEM劳动力的发展。具体而言，ECR: BCSER支持使早期和中期职业研究人员获得必要的专业知识和技能，以便在STEM教育中进行严格的基础研究的活动。ECR: BCSER寻求资助与定性和定量研究方法和设计相关的主题的研究职业发展活动，包括收集和分析新的定性或定量数据，使用现有数据集进行二次分析，或荟萃分析。这次会议将在威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校举行，将建立国家科学基金会支持的社区的能力，以便从极有前途的定量人种学（QE）研究方法中受益。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。

ECR's Building Capacity for STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER) solicitation supports projects that build individuals' capacity to carry out high quality STEM education research that will enhance the nation's STEM education enterprise and broaden the pool of researchers that can conduct fundamental research in STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM fields, and STEM workforce development.Specifically, ECR: BCSER supports activities that enable early and mid-career researchers to acquire the requisite expertise and skills to conduct rigorous fundamental research in STEM education. ECR: BCSER seeks to fund research career development activities on topics that are relevant to qualitative and quantitative research methods and design, including the collection and analysis of new qualitative or quantitative data, secondary analyses using extant datasets, or meta-analyses.This conference, to be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 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.