Institute for Measurement Methodology in Rural STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (IMMERSE-PRF)

该项目得到了NSF的EHR核心STEM教育研究能力建设计划的支持，该计划旨在发展研究人员开展高质量STEM教育研究的能力。该项目利用由ECR“STEM教育能力建设计划”支持的农村STEM教育测量方法学研究所。该项目团队将为三名博士后研究员实施为期两年的培训计划，为他们成为能够开展农村STEM教育和劳动力发展研究的跨学科学者做好准备。这些研究员将被定位于衡量和解决与农村社区相关的障碍和保护因素，并贡献可能影响地方、州和/或联邦政策和实践的学术成果。项目团队将为学员提供最先进的方法和理论培训，教授最新的先进心理测量和统计技术、对STEM教育至关重要的理论观点，以及当前的软件程序和应用程序。博士后研究员将接受核心教师学者的指导，在学术期刊上发表文章和授勋方面的深入经验，以及使用具有全国代表性的大型数据库的指导。这些研究员还将实施与他们的研究兴趣和专业目标相一致的自我指导的研究。跨学科的培训环境和对测量科学的关注可以提高农村STEM教育研究的严谨性，跨越多个研究和学科。该项目响应STEM教育博士后研究奖学金(STEM ED PRF)计划，该计划旨在增强STEM、STEM教育、教育和相关学科的博士研究生的研究知识、技能和实践，以促进他们从事基础和应用研究，以促进该领域知识的进步。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。

The project is supported by NSF's EHR Core Research Building Capacity in STEM Education Research program which is designed to develop investigators' capacity to carry out high quality STEM education research.The project leverages the Institute for Measurement Methodology in Rural STEM Education that is supported by the ECR” Building Capacity in STEM Education Program. The project team will implement a two-year training program for three postdoctoral fellows to prepare them to become trans disciplinary scholars who can conduct research on rural STEM education and workforce development. The fellows will be positioned to measure and address barriers and protective factors relevant to rural communities and to contribute scholarship that could influence local, state, and/or federal policy and practice. The project team will provide state-of-the-art methodology and theory training to the fellows to teach the latest advanced psychometric and statistical techniques, theoretical perspectives critical to STEM education,, and current software programs and applications. The postdoctoral fellows will receive mentoring by a core of faculty scholars, in depth experience in grantsmanship and publishing in academic journals, and instruction in using nationally representative large databases. The fellows also will implement self-directed research studies that align with their research interests and professional goals. The interdisciplinary training environment and focus on measurement science could elevate the rigor of rural STEM education research across multiple lines of inquiry and disciplines.The project responds to the STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (STEM Ed PRF) program that aims to enhance the research knowledge, skills, and practices of recent doctorates in STEM, STEM education, education, and related disciplines to advance their preparation to engage in fundamental and applied research that advances knowledge within the field.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.