The Science and Mathematics Education Research Collaborative Postdoctoral Program

该项目将支持科学和数学教育研究合作(SMERC)中的一批博士后研究员，SMERC是罗切斯特理工学院(RIT)来自物理、生物、数学、化学、科学传播和工程的STEM教育研究人员的跨学科小组。博士后研究员将在广泛的跨学科研究主题上与导师合作，并参与专业发展，包括研究、课堂实践和社区参与活动。研究和专业发展机会旨在帮助博士后研究员发展知识和技能，以开展STEM教育的基础研究。该项目的跨学科重点还将有助于将来自不同学科的研究人员聚集在一起，打破传统的学术孤岛，从而更好地为研究员进行跨学科STEM教育研究做好准备。这一博士后培训工作的一个显著特点是致力于发展STEM教育学者的跨学科社区。研究和专业发展活动包括让研究员有机会参与各种单一和多学科主题的研究项目，与不同学科的导师合作，获得各种研究方法的知识和技能(例如，大型机构数据集的定量随机建模和网络分析，以及各种定性方法)，参与现有的RIT附属项目，分享SMEC的核心跨学科理念，以及获得与教师教师合作的教学知识和技能。该计划还有助于RIT发展成为以学科为基础的教育研究的区域中心。该项目由NSF研究培训计划(NRT)资助，旨在鼓励为STEM研究生教育培训开发和实施大胆的、具有潜在变革意义的新模式。Trainesship Track致力于通过创新的、基于证据的、与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致的综合培训模式，在高度优先的跨学科研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will support a cohort of postdoctoral fellows within the Science and Mathematics Education Research Collaborative (SMERC), an interdisciplinary group of STEM education researchers from physics, biology, mathematics, chemistry, science communication, and engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The postdoctoral fellows will work with mentors on a wide range of interdisciplinary research topics, and participate in professional development that includes research, classroom practice, and community involvement activities. The research and professional development opportunities are designed to help the postdoctoral fellows develop the knowledge and skills to conduct foundational research in STEM education. The interdisciplinary focus of the program will also help to bring together researchers from different disciplines, breaking down traditional academic silos and thus better preparing the fellows to conduct interdisciplinary STEM education research. A distinguishing feature of this postdoctoral training effort is its commitment to developing an interdisciplinary community of STEM education scholars. Research and professional development activities include opportunities for fellows to participate in research projects from a variety of single- and multi-disciplinary topics, to work with mentors from various disciplines, to gain knowledge of and skill with a variety of research methods (e.g., quantitative stochastic modeling and network analysis of large institutional data sets, and various qualitative methods), to participate in existing RIT affiliated programs that share SMERC’s core interdisciplinary philosophy, and to gain teaching knowledge and skills working with faculty instructors. The program also serves to build significant capacity for the RIT to develop into a regional hub of discipline-based education research.This project is funded by the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program, which is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The Traineeship Track is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary research areas, through the comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with 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.