Conference: Supporting Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Readiness for STEM Education Research Teams

会议：支持 STEM 教育研究团队的中型研究基础设施准备

• 批准号: 2412719
• 负责人: Margaret Levenstein
• 金额: $ 9.95万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-15 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2412719&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Supporting; Mid; Scale; Research

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) will host a workshop that brings together NSF-funded teams working on midscale research infrastructure incubator projects for STEM education research with a focus on education equity (see NSF 22-085). ICPSR will share information, resources, and support incubator teams in developing and managing mid-scale infrastructure projects. These incubator projects have identified research infrastructure gaps related to assessments, teacher practices, and digital tools to support student learning and have proposed pilot tools, cyberinfrastructure, large-scale datasets, etc., for filling these gaps. To scale these pilots, the teams will need to successfully develop proposals to create mid-scale research infrastructure (Midscale RI). However, Midscale RI proposals require specialized knowledge that is not common within the STEM education research community and thus may limit the community’s ability to develop competitive Midscale RI proposals.The goal of the workshop is to advance the work of researchers and staff from projects funded under the effort described in the DCL: Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure (Midscale RI) Incubators and Conferences for STEM Education Research with a Focus on Education Equity. ICPSR faculty and staff are deeply involved in supporting the STEM education research community through the PEERS STEM education research hub and are experienced with the NSF Midscale RI program through Research Data Ecosystem, a Midscale RI project building software to support a transparent and reproducible research data lifecycle. The workshop will draw on these experiences to build the capacity of the incubator teams to conceive and implement Midscale RI projects by providing training in project management, the development of and use of project execution plans, work breakdown structures, risk registers, contingency planning, human-centered design, and the implementation and reporting necessary for successful projects. ICPSR will provide a structured forum in which the incubator teams can learn from one another, establish common points of interest, and establish an ongoing community of practice to foster collaborative efforts going forward. As a result of the workshop, incubator teams will be more likely to realize the visions of their incubator projects, leading to promising new advancements in STEM education research that are developed specifically with a focus on education equity.This project is supported by NSF's EDU Core Research (ECR) program and NSF’s Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12). The ECR program emphasizes fundamental STEM education research that generates foundational knowledge in the field. Investments are made in critical areas that are essential, broad and enduring: STEM learning and STEM learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development. The DRK-12 program seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects. 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.

政治与社会研究大学间联盟 (ICPSR) 将举办一次研讨会，汇集 NSF 资助的团队，致力于 STEM 教育研究的中型研究基础设施孵化器项目，重点关注教育公平（参见 NSF ICPSR 22-085）。将在开发和中型基础设施项目中共享信息、资源并支持孵化器团队。这些孵化器项目已确定与管理评估、教师实践和支持学生学习的数字工具相关的研究基础设施差距。为了填补这些空白，团队需要成功制定创建中型研究基础设施（中型 RI）的提案。 STEM 教育研究社区中不常见的专业知识，因此可能会限制社区制定有竞争力的中型 RI 提案的能力。研讨会的目标是在 DCL 中描述的努力下推进受资助项目的研究人员和工作人员的工作：专注于教育公平的 STEM 教育研究的中型研究基础设施 (Midscale RI) 孵化器和会议 ICPSR 教职员工通过 PEERS STEM 教育研究中心深入参与支持 STEM 教育研究社区，并且在 NSF 方面拥有丰富的经验。通过研究数据生态系统的中型 RI 项目，这是一个中型 RI 项目构建软件，用于支持透明且可重复的研究数据生命周期。研讨会将利用这些经验来培养孵化器团队的能力。通过提供项目管理、项目执行计划的制定和使用、工作分解结构、风险登记册、应急计划、以人为本的设计以及成功项目所需的实施和报告等方面的培训来实施中型 RI 项目。一个结构化的论坛，孵化器团队可以在其中相互学习，建立共同兴趣点，并建立一个持续的实践社区，以促进未来的合作。通过研讨会，孵化器团队将更有可能实现以下目标。他们的愿景孵化器项目，带来专门针对教育公平而开发的 STEM 教育研究有希望的新进展。该项目得到 NSF 的 EDU 核心研究 (ECR) 计划和 NSF 的发现研究 preK-12 计划 (DRK-12) 的支持。 ECR 项目强调基础 STEM 教育研究，这些研究产生该领域的基础知识：STEM 学习和 STEM 学习环境，扩大 STEM 的参与， DRK-12 计划旨在通过创新资源、模型和工具的研究和开发，显着增强 PreK-12 学生和教师对科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 的学习和教学。 DRK-12 计划中的项目以 STEM 教育的基础研究为基础，反映了先前的研究和开发工作，为拟议项目提供了理论和实证依据。该奖项是 NSF 的法定使命，通过使用基金会的智力优点和知识进行评估，被认为值得支持。更广泛的影响审查标准。