Postdoctoral Training in STEM Education

该项目团队将建立普渡大学STEM教育研究计划（目的）博士后培训计划，以支持在非正式和/或正式学习环境（如学校、家庭、儿童保育和社区环境）中培养早期STEM学习和发展领域的博士后学者。在这个培训项目中，博士后学者将磨练他们的研究和教学技能，与教育工作者、政策制定者、家庭和可能导致合作的社区成员建立关系，并学习政策是如何制定和评估的，拓宽他们对研究如何在州一级决策中使用的理解。该计划将通过提供研究和专业发展培训经验，支持博士后学者成功获得有影响力的STEM教育职业，在那里他们可以产生和传播STEM教育知识。最终，这种培训将培养出全面发展的早期STEM教育学者，为在学术、工业和/或政策相关职位上取得成功做好准备。PURPOSE博士后培训计划的总体目标是增强博士后学者在传统STEM技能、理论和观点之外的知识基础，采用与STEM和非STEM技能开发相关的新方法，并与STEM和非STEM同事建立合作关系。这些学者将建立延伸到实践和政策的联系和伙伴关系，参与全面的学术和专业发展，并准备在职业生涯中采取下一步行动，以产生高质量的STEM教育知识。培训计划将建立在研究、实践和政策三大支柱上，并通过专业学习、多样性、公平和包容（在学术和专业发展的背景下）和指导（提供指导和学习如何指导）为基础予以支持。预计博士后学者将在早期STEM教育和入学准备的交叉点发展知识和技能。此外，该计划的结构将被评估、完善，并作为博士后培训的模式，由普渡大学的主要人员维护，并通过未来的会议、专业发展培训和其他机会传播给其他人。该项目由EHR核心研究（ECR）计划资助，该计划支持推进STEM学习和学习环境基础研究、扩大STEM参与和STEM劳动力发展的工作。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 team will establish the Purdue University Research Program on STEM Education (PURPOSE) postdoctoral training program to support the development of a cohort of postdoctoral scholars in the area of early STEM learning and development in informal and/or formal learning environments such as schools, homes, child care, and community settings. In this training program, postdoctoral scholars will hone their research and teaching skills, build relationships with educators, policy makers, families, and community members that could lead to collaborations, and learn how policies are developed and evaluated, broadening their understanding of how research is used in decision-making at the state level. The program will support the postdoctoral scholars’ success in attaining impactful STEM education careers–where they can generate and disseminate STEM education knowledge–through the provision of research and professional development training experiences. Ultimately, this training will result in well-rounded early STEM education scholars equipped for success in academic, industry, and/or policy-relevant positions.The overarching goal of the PURPOSE postdoctoral training program is to enhance the postdoctoral scholars’ knowledge base beyond traditional STEM skills, theories, and perspectives, to employ new methods relevant to STEM and non-STEM skill development, and to develop collaborations with STEM and non-STEM colleagues. These scholars will build connections and partnerships that extend to practice and policy, engage in holistic scholarly and professional development, and be poised to take the next steps in their career to generate high-quality STEM education knowledge. The training program will be built on the three pillars of research, practice, and policy that are supported through a foundation of professional learning, diversity, equity, and inclusion (in contexts of both their scholarly and professional development), and mentoring (both the provision of mentoring and learning how to mentor). It is expected that the postdoctoral scholars will develop knowledge and skills at the intersection of early STEM education and school readiness. Additionally, the initiative’s structure will be evaluated, refined and used as a model for postdoctoral training that will be maintained by the key personnel at Purdue and disseminated to others through future conferences, professional development training, and other opportunities.This project is funded by the EHR Core Research (ECR) program, which supports work that advances fundamental research on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development.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.