Collaborative Research: Workshop proposal: Building Foundations for Engineering Faculty in Engineering Education Research

合作研究：研讨会提案：为工程教育研究中的工程教师奠定基础

• 批准号: 2029410
• 负责人: Karin Jensen
• 金额: $ 5.68万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2029410&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Workshop; proposal; Building

Engineering faculty bring an important perspective to engineering education research, yet they are rarely formally trained in educational research methods. Training engineering faculty in engineering education research will support faculty adopting research-based practices in the classroom and inform advising, programming, and policies. This project will develop a series of virtual workshops to support engineering faculty in developing educational research skills and will facilitate their integration into the engineering education research community. The workshops will also create a collaborative community of engineering faculty and educational research mentors that will support the development of engineering faculty and the success of engineering education research projects funded by the NSF. Sustained engagement of engineering faculty in educational research will create synergies between engineering education research and engineering education practice. Outcomes of this project will include (1) publicly available, archived resources about research in engineering education, (2) a sustainable community that supports the success of engineering faculty conducting engineering education research. The archived resources will be hosted on a public website and available to any faculty interested in learning educational research methods to improve engineering education. The community will connect engineering faculty with engineering education research experts and facilitate future opportunities for collaboration. These outcomes will ultimately strengthen and diversify the engineering education research community and make educational research more accessible to engineering faculty, which will in turn support training the future engineering workforce via implementation of research-based practices in engineering classrooms. The virtual workshop series will provide training, structured support, and a virtual community of practice for NSF Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (RIEF) program awardees to promote their sustained engagement in engineering education research through the development of research-related social capital, which enhances the flow of information, develops desirable credentials, and reinforces research identity. The team will use social network analysis and surveys throughout the two-year project to study how interactions (1) among program awardees and (2) between awardees and members of the engineering education research community influence the development of research-related social capital. The workshops will support the success of funded RIEF projects, helping program mentees fully integrate into the engineering education research community during and beyond their grant cycle, providing program mentors access to engineering education research resources to support their mentoring, developing an external support structure for mentees to learn about common research practices, and cultivating a community of other research mentors. This project will build program participants’ professional networks in engineering education research by increasing availability and accessibility of past and present program mentees and mentors, engineering education research content experts, people in leadership positions in the field, potential future collaborators, and others positioned to support or promote the work. This work will accelerate participants’ development of both strong and weak ties and facilitate their purposeful use of those embedded resources to help program mentees accomplish their engineering education research goals during the two-year RIEF project cycle and beyond. The project will study the impact of participation in a community of practice in developing engineering faculty in engineering education research as well as identify how program mentors effectively build mentee social capital. The project will build the engineering education research mentorship community, support engineering faculty professional development, and promote wider implementations of research-based practices to support students.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.

工程学院为工程教育研究带来了重要的观点，但很少在教育研究方法中接受正式培训。工程教育研究的培训工程学院将支持教师在课堂上采用基于研究的实践，并为咨询，编程和政策提供信息。该项目将开发一系列虚拟研讨会，以支持工程学院开发教育研究技能，并促进其与工程教育研究社区的融合。该研讨会还将建立一个协作社区的工程教师和教育研究导师，该社区将支持工程学院的发展以及由NSF资助的工程教育研究项目的成功。工程教师参与教育研究的持续参与将在工程教育研究与工程教育实践之间产生协同作用。该项目的成果将包括（1）公开可用的有关工程教育研究研究的资源，（2）一个可持续的社区，支持进行工程教育研究的工程教师的成功。存档资源将托管在公共网站上，并向有兴趣学习教育研究方法的任何教师都可以使用，以改善工程教育。社区将将工程教师与工程教育研究专家联系起来，并促进未来的合作机会。这些成果最终将增强和多样化工程教育研究界，并使工程学院更容易获得教育研究，这反过来又支持培训未来的工程劳动力，通过实施基于研究的工程课堂实践。虚拟研讨会系列将提供培训，结构化支持和虚拟的实践社区，用于NSF研究格式研究启动（RIEF）计划获奖者，以通过发展与研究相关的社会资本来促进他们持续参与工程教育研究，从而增强信息的流动，从而增强知名度，并发展了可取的凭据，并增强了研究认同。该团队将在整个为期两年的项目中使用社交网络分析和调查，以研究计划获奖者之间的互动（1）以及获奖者与工程教育研究社区成员之间的互动如何影响与研究相关的社会资本的发展。这些研讨会将支持资助的rief项目的成功，帮助计划导师在其赠款周期期间和超越工程教育研究社区，从而使计划导师访问工程教育研究资源，以支持他们的心理，为导师提供外部支持结构，以了解导师的外部支持结构，以了解常见的研究实践，并培养其他研究导师的社区。该项目将通过增加过去和现在的计划月经和月经的可及性，工程教育研究内容专家，现场领导地位的人员，潜在的未来合作者以及其他方面支持或促进工作的人来建立计划参与者在工程教育研究方面的专业网络。这项工作将加速参与者的牢固和弱关系的发展，并促进他们在为期两年的RIEF项目周期及以后的工程教育研究目标，以帮助他们实现其工程教育研究目标。该项目将研究参与实践社区在开发工程教育研究中的工程学院的影响，并确定计划指导如何有效地建立MENET社会资本。该项目将建立工程教育研究界，支持工程教师专业发展，并促进更广泛的基于研究的实践来支持学生。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估标准来通过评估来支持的。

项目成果

Virtual Communities of Practice: Social Capital’s Influence on Faculty Development

虚拟实践社区：社会资本对教师发展的影响

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition
• 作者: Egwuonwu C;Miller IM;Jensen KJ;Martin JP
• 通讯作者: Martin JP