Quantitative Research Methods for STEM Education Scholars Program

尽管在STEM中，来自服务不足人群的个人一直没有得到充分代表，但没有足够的学者和早期职业研究人员接受过充分研究这些问题的培训。该培训机构项目将针对早期职业学者，他们的研究重点是在K-12或高等教育环境中，STEM中代表性不足的人群的准入和公平问题。该培训机构的目标是关注和改进教育研究、研究设计、测量方法和数据分析方法，为60名早期职业学者提供三个队列。每位学者的工作将对STEM教育机会、成就差距和劳动力多样性等问题的文献做出有价值和直接的贡献。该研究所通过两个强化研究所，对三组20名定量研究方法（QRM）学者进行为期一年的培训，内容涉及研究设计、分析、测量等基本问题，包括面对面和远程协作活动，以及与指定方法导师和研究生辅导员的会议。为期一年的互动包括直播研讨会，与方法导师的定期会议，以及社交网络基础设施，以提高参与者在STEM教育研究的设计和执行方面的技能。每位QRM学者在接受指导的一年中，将被要求从事一项拟议的研究/活动，这可能是与其他学者合作。这一年将以顶点会议结束，届时学者们将展示他们过去一年的工作。该项目由美国国家科学基金会EHR STEM教育研究核心研究能力建设项目（ECR:BCSER）支持，该项目旨在培养研究人员开展高质量STEM教育研究的能力。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。

Despite the persistent under representation of individuals from underserved populations in STEM, there are not enough scholars and early career researchers trained to adequately study the issues. This training institute project will target early career scholars with research foci on issues of access and equity of underrepresented populations in STEM within either K-12 or postsecondary settings. The goal of the training institute is to focus on and improve education research study design, methods of measurement, and data analytical approaches for 60 early career scholars over three cohorts. Each scholar's work will make valuable and immediate contributions to the literature around issues such as STEM education access, achievement gaps, and workforce diversity. This research institute involves a year-long training of three cohorts of 20 Quantitative Research Methods (QRM) scholars via two intensive institutes on fundamental issues in research design, analysis, measurement, with both in-person and remote collaborative activities and meetings with their assigned methods mentor and graduate student facilitator. Year-long interactions include live-stream workshops, regular meetings with methods mentors, and a social network infrastructure to improve participant's skills in design and execution of research in STEM Education. Each QRM scholar will be expected to work on a proposed study/activity during the year while they are being mentored, this may be in collaboration with other scholars. The year will culminate with a capstone conference, where the scholars present their work from the past year.The project is supported by NSF's EHR Core Research Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR:BCSER) program, which is designed to build investigators’ capacity to carry out high-quality STEM education research.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.