Collaborative Research: A Conference to Promote the Integration of Research on Undergraduate Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry Education

协作研究：促进本科数理化教育研究融合会议

• 批准号: 0941191
• 负责人: Chris Rasmussen
• 金额: $ 13.27万
• 依托单位: San Diego State University Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-01 至 2015-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0941191&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Conference; Promote; Integration

Assessment/Research (91) This project is a collaborative project conducted by STEM education researchers from Purdue University and the San Diego State University Foundation. The project seeks to transform the compartmentalized way in which mathematics and science education research is conducted and reported by bringing together leading researchers in undergraduate mathematics, physics, and chemistry education for two four-day intensive conferences. The conferences are designed to create collaborative research programs and build capacity for integrative work by involving discipline-based education researchers and a significant number of graduate students in mathematics and science education. The theme of the conferences is to connect researchers across disciplines with complementary interests and expertise to one another. The conferences will drive forward the integration of education research in mathematics, physics and chemistry, enabling more rapid advances than could otherwise be achieved independently. Sharing insights across disciplines as well as results from cross-disciplinary studies has the potential to lead to more robust research methodologies suited for use in all three communities, the development of areas of common interest and connectivity, and the development of transformative integrated practices. To promote collaboration among researchers in the math, physics, and chemistry education communities, the project offers three peer-reviewed mini-grants at each conference. These will foster the interdisciplinary research needed to address areas of inquiry common to math, physics, and chemistry education. The project team includes nationally recognized researchers in undergraduate mathematics, physics, and chemistry education who have organized national or international conferences in their fields. The project offers a first-rate opportunity to build community and connections among researchers in mathematics, physics, and chemistry education and to extend these to education researchers in biology, engineering, and the learning sciences. The inclusion of senior level graduate students and post-docs builds capacity across fields for collaborative research. By sharing emergent findings within and across these disciplines, the communities can share perspectives to strengthen the outcomes of research and practices that emerge from these conferences and broaden their impact. Beyond the research community, the findings from this project can be used to challenge current classroom practices and to lead to new ideas for creating educational materials and teaching strategies that have the potential for directly impacting educational practices in STEM. The project will build capacity by fully supporting 21 graduate students who show promise of building a research program that involves collaborations between math and science education. A team of external evaluators, who are highly regarded for their contributions to discipline-based education research, will document and assess the effectiveness of the project through an outcome-based, mixed method design.

评估/研究（91）该项目是由普渡大学和圣地亚哥州立大学基金会的STEM教育研究人员进行的合作项目。 该项目旨在通过将主要的数学，物理学和化学教育研究人员聚集在一起进行两次为期四天的密集型会议，从而改变数学和科学教育研究的分隔方式。这些会议旨在通过涉及基于学科的教育研究人员和大量的数学和科学教育研究生来创建合作研究计划并为综合工作增强能力。会议的主题是将跨学科的研究人员与互补的兴趣和专业知识联系起来。这些会议将推动数学，物理和化学方面的教育研究的整合，从而实现了比独立实现的快速进步。在学科之间共享见解以及跨学科研究的结果，有可能导致更适合在所有三个社区中使用的更健壮的研究方法，共同兴趣和连通性领域的发展以及变革性综合实践的发展。为了促进数学，物理和化学教育社区研究人员之间的合作，该项目在每次会议上提供了三个经过同行评审的迷你奖励。这些将促进解决数学，物理和化学教育所需的探究领域所需的跨学科研究。该项目团队包括在本领域组织国家或国际会议的本科数学，物理学和化学教育的全国认可的研究人员。该项目提供了一流的机会，可以在数学，物理和化学教育领域的研究人员之间建立社区和联系，并将其扩展到生物学，工程和学习科学的教育研究人员。包括高级研究生和毕业后的成员在整个领域建立了协作研究的能力。通过在这些学科内部和跨这些学科中分享紧急发现，社区可以分享观点，以加强从这些会议中产生的研究和实践的结果并扩大其影响。除研究界外，该项目的发现可用于挑战当前的课堂实践，并提出创建教育材料和教学策略的新想法，这些策略有可能直接影响STEM中的教育实践。该项目将通过完全支持21名研究生，他们表现出涉及数学和科学教育之间合作的研究计划的希望来建立能力。一组外部评估者团队对基于学科的教育研究的贡献受到高度重视，他们将通过基于结果的混合方法设计记录和评估项目的有效性。