Building Capacity & Leveraging Technologies in STEM Education Research: Workshop 2

Building Capacity & Leveraging Technologies in STEM Education Research: Workshop 2

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all right uh good day and welcome to the second and final Workshop of the NSF presentation Workshop series I am Amber Bryant the project manager Workshop coordinator and the host of today's events please be comfortable we are here to learn Network and work collaboratively so feel free we want you to ask and pose any questions that you have at any time and you can use the Q a box or the chat for that we want you to ask questions open and honestly and know that you're here that this is a safe space to communicate and learn these workshops are sponsored by the National Science Foundation and hosted by the Pierce data hub the peers data Hub is a collaborative initiative between aera the American educational research Association and the inter University Consortium for political and social research at the University of Michigan icpsr when your time permits please check out the Pierce data Hub resources we have several webinar webinar recordings such as these that may interest you along with our most popular resource over 150 individual data sets accessible for secondary analysis you can visit us at www.pearstatahub.net and I will speak more about the Hub a little later in the presentation before we get into the review of Workshop one I would like to share the agenda with you as well as have you take a moment to fill out a Google form that we have um the Google form will help us assist in breaking out the sessions later for the networking and collaborating and if you give me a second I'll paste that all into the chat for you the agenda that I'm sharing with you um also has links to the slides that I am presenting from right now so as I'm presenting I want you to feel free to follow along as well as click through some of the active links that are in the presentation so just take a moment if you will and open up the agenda so that you can follow along with the presentation and have the links as well as take a second to fill out the Google breakout forms so for the breakout sessions you're going to be able to go to two um so the first question is choose one second question is choose two I'm gonna pause here for a minute to give you some time to open those up foreign and we will replace those links throughout the session if people are coming late or if you um if you happen to miss it so so don't worry we'll be sharing those repeatedly throughout the presentation um so today I will quickly share an overview of the first session providing you some insights into some of the interesting Education Innovations that were shared discuss some of the logistics of the dear colleague letter and before we break out into rooms we will hear from a virtual data provider provider we are very excited and happy to have that director of the virtual learning leadership alliance with us Cindy halblin Hamblin sorry and she will share a bit later about how the lla works and how they can potentially help you in your collaborations these are the breakout sessions that you all saw in um in your group so later in the workshop we will separate into breakout rooms for 20-minute increments two rooms total um and and these are the ones that you chose from and you'll see them again later if needed all right awesome let me offer a quick overview of Workshop one and then we'll get right into the networking so um we had a very nice guest speaker there uh it was Perry Sampson and Bradley burgley and they presented about their recent higher education classroom Technologies their projects were back Channel and learning Clues so that you all who were there last time you might remember this so I'm just gonna kind of briefly um kind of go over them but both of these were effectively centering students at the focus of their Innovation so that's what these are really good examples of as well as using technology to help do that you can click on these this image to access the full PowerPoint okay so if you click the image it'll give you a link and it'll take you to the full PowerPoint if you would like to read that so um we'll talk about their first one their back counter project was motivated by students resistance to asking questions in undergraduate stem courses so in their pilot study they act 359 undergraduate students the following question when I have a question I am comfortable asking them verbally during class as you can see the majority of students both those who identified as male and those who identify as female answered either strongly or somewhat disagree with feeling comfortable asking questions so this motivated them to create uh their back Channel project these were their research questions to their study do students in classes with an anonymous back Channel okay fine back Channel versus the control have higher rates of student questioning perceive higher levels of belongingness and self-efficacy and Report greater um stem identity and the last question was do relations differ from traditionally underrepresented groups so that was just another conceptual question they were asking of that this is what they got out of their pilot study overwhelmingly the students um appreciated having that that option of asking questions anonymously students responded positively to that option and again you can have full access to this study by clicking the link at the beginning the other Innovation that they shared with us was learning Clues and this one is uh gaining a lot of popularity um and it's eventually going to be on the market it's what their hopes are um but with this project they successfully use data mining to help create learning guides and resources for students so the process includes pulling and reviewing all multimedia resources within a course's online platform so let's say Canvas OR Blackboard or some online platform that students use for for classes um and a stem resource class for instance and you'll be able to scan and digitize all of the lecture material homework materials study guides and anything accessible in the course what this is going to allow a student students to do is search terms or um moments and instances throughout all of these multimedia to find the topics that they're looking to study sorry now of course I'm not explaining that perfectly so please access access the slides and learn more about learning Clues if you are interested essentially it's like creating a Google search platform within a course so that students can search online class materials quickly and with as much detail as possible so that's in my mind the way I think of it is taking a class and creating a Google searchable platform for students to easily find easily find points in the lecture that talk about the topic they're looking for or course material that finds that key term we also heard from a researcher from the University of from Texas A M University K Richard Kramer which Omar and her Education Innovations focused on K-12 environments she did an amazing job marrying the necessity of acknowledging the active work that K2 K-12 teachers are constantly facing in their day-to-day work and the need for new technologies to only Advance their mission towards Equitable Student Success same as others you can click this image and access her Powerpoint as well um K emphasized the need for researchers to plan on the front end of their collaborations with K-12 researchers so why while Perry and Bradley focused on K-12 uh K really focused on I mean higher ed K really focused on K-12 environments and she had a strong emphasis on making sure that researchers um seek to cultivate a deeper understanding of the context of their research environment she urges that researchers be transparent to establish trust and to stay humble when working with and in education environments Dr widget Kumar urges us to Center our studies on the outcomes of students and practitioners and not ourselves that is a message she Sarah she shared the conceptual model um that will help us understand her recommendations and her approach one is to solve a problem in context embrace the complexity in schools focus on all children and investigate the why and what why are we doing this and what happens when it's not effective she shared a story um that she went to a conference and she was speaking to a superintendent who was really proud that the literary literacy rate in his district for fourth graders was 80 percent and and that is a high number you know and um Dr Richard Kumar she asked well what about the other 20 percent and I guess his response is um you know no system is perfect sorry thank you um his response was no system is perfect um but that led her to add this into her conceptual model of um there are when we're doing our studies numbers are not just numbers numbers are children so she felt like that we should always Center our studies on being effective to all children keeping all children in mind and also having interventions for when what we are doing does not work because that still leaves 20 of those fourth graders behind so she you know she definitely um brought all of that home for us on the K-12 front Kay and her research team have a strong track record of successful K-12 interventions that integrate machine learning artificial intelligence and data mining please look these up if you would like to see more examples of K-12 research in this topic area lastly and this is in direct preparation for our breakout sessions we also heard from the NSF program officers leading this award Jessica spybrook and Rob oshendorf I'm going to go directly to the slide and provide a quick overview of what they discussed and the things that you may need to note during your collaboration time we are also lucky enough to have Jessica here with us today um so you guys can ask her questions and she would jump in if um if there's anything that she may need to explain a little bit more okay so this grant is in this Workshop is in preparation for applying to this dear colleague letter for a b sir Grant b c s e r which stands for building capacity and stem education research um again I'm going to go quickly through these because she presented these in the last session and you can watch the video for the in-depth details the deadline that we are preparing you all for is February 24th 2023 there are two specific tracks for this and I believe there might have even been a third that we might mention a little bit later but definitely two um individual investigator development and stem education research which is geared towards the pilot or budding projects and stem education research and then the Institute methods and practices oh nope I get it I get it oh I see it the independent track yes there's two type of investigators in that one we have new investigators and experienced investigators so that's the one track that you would have um if you want to go about it that way and the second track is the Institute which is training more education researchers right you all might remember this from number four these are the Technologies the emerging technologies that the letter would like the proposal would like for you to consider while you're doing your collaborations and coming up with your research questions they have some preparation outlines and guidelines for you for both methods of applying Merit criteria as well please review all of these as well as open the dear colleague letter of course so I just wanted you to see this resource here um I would definitely advise you to download this PowerPoint out of all of them okay okay here's a link to the video for you um you can review that later at your own time um but I just wanted to add that in there so you can have quick access to that okay so here are some of the major details pulled out for you some of the links that you can easily access and as we prepare to go into our breakout sessions I wanted to offer you some last tips about how to use the most of this breakout time so one thing to consider is your potential collaborative and funding structures I understand that this is really getting into the weeds and the details of the proposal but it's just something that you want to keep in mind while you're thinking about these collaborations typically there are three traditional ways that enter universities collaborate um again this is just something for you to think about um you can include a subcontract in your proposal if you're going to take the lead and be the pi institution that takes the lead and you would just subcontract another faculty member or researcher at another Institution um you can submit collaborative proposals where they are individual and you submit to the call separately but you talk about the joint collaboration that you all are going to do and you make points and hints to each other's and the last one is to give your collaborator a dry or research appointment at your institution um I think this one is a little maybe a little less common uh it can be easier in some instances but I strongly advise you to um to ask questions of your institution and kind of consider what would be best for your collaboration so there's a lot to go into that but these are just some ways that um researchers collaborate across universities here are some links to data resources if you are interested in doing secondary research I will click um quickly share the data research page for the peers data Hub that's the one I would like to share with you and then I will turn it over to Cindy um from the virtual learning leadership Alliance to discuss her resources so before we do that I would like to um secondary resources I would like to show you the peers data hub I would love to walk you through the entire peers data Hub please come here and visit for now I really just want to show you our Discover data page if you go here at the top of the screen go to discover and you hit data sets um what we have here is a list of data sets some are publicly available some are restricted access but we have instructions for you to access those as well um this is the over 150 data sets I mentioned in the beginning they are separated by topic if you click K12 you will see quite a few Higher Education data sets longitudinal study so please definitely visit this webpage as you consider your research and your collaborations there's a lot of data sets that we put there for you all so I tend to like to put that plug in there because people really enjoy that data Resource page so that is something that you all can go back to and reference um as well as the national Center for Science and Engineering statistics they have a really nice um data interactive website data tool website that I would recommend you all using icpsr um I believe it's the largest in the world as far as archiving social science data so definitely go there and uh the virtual leader leader the virtual learning leadership Alliance that we've learned about today also offers some more of the newer Cutting Edge learning analytics and then we also have a partnership with our digital learning collaborative community and they have resources as well okay so as I mentioned prior we have the director of the virtual learning leadership alliance with us today Cindy Hamlin I will turn it over to her to tell you a little bit about the lla and the ways that they can potentially help you in your collaborations indeed I'll send it to you sure thank you Amber for the introduction and good morning everyone again my name is Cindy Hamblin with the virtual learning leadership Alliance and I'm attending today's webinar to provide not only an overview of our organization uh the data we collect annually but also offer the expertise of our membership in K-12 online learning to the researchers here today Grant collaborative collaborators that may be looking at the lens of online learning K-12 online learning to build capacity in stem research so that's kind of the focus that I'm here for today the vlla we are a 501c3 uh non-profit educational organization whose mission is to strengthen online learning K-12 online learning through leadership advocacy and expertise of years of experience among the group uh we're 20 members strong all of our members are supplemental virtual programs that represent 19 States across the country so we have north south east west covered as far as our membership our members consist largely of a state virtual school so they are providing um services to students and districts throughout the state or large Consortium that also do the same in in covering and supporting districts students in their state and sometimes other states as a supplemental virtual program our members of established Partnerships with the local public and private schools to expand educational opportunities so those students do remain enrolled locally they're just given the opportunity to either take forces not available locally catch up if they are behind but a number of reasons that students in a district would opt in to take a supplemental online course maybe they're graduating earlier got behind collectively uh the members of the vlla serve close to a million course enrollments annually we provide districts and schools with 5 000 plus teachers that are all trained um and evaluated in online learning instruction we also our groups offer professional development opportunities to administrators and Educators that are outside of their program so try and again as our mission states to strengthen online learning throughout the nation in 2018-19 the our members along with quality matters another organization led a 200-member members from online and Blended learning to revise the national standards for Quality online learning if you're not familiar with that you might search that that is newly released or exact instance 19 of national standards for Quality online programs quality online teaching and quality online courses so this group of 200 plus um members from the field included both researchers and practitioners to revise those standards so that's a little bit about our organization uh regarding the data annually our organization collects data from vlla Members so our 20 members another state virtual schools that are not part of our organization data around enrollment data number of schools and District Partners number of online courses offered completion rates Pass rates of students and other data that is related to that K-12 online services provided to districts and students in addition our members are all report to other boards whether that's the Department of Education for their state or governing boards so as individual members there are other data pieces that they do collect so that is uh just a brief introduction to the vlla and the data we collect I'd be happy to join one of the breakout rooms again if those on the call are interested in exploring K-12 online learning within your research thank you so I guess we do have a breakout room where she will be in there when you all can ask questions and also collaborate and learn a little bit more about the research from from the vlla okay before we break out also lastly if you are interested in collecting your own data um where you're going out there to do primary research the peers data Hub also has resources for you as well this is just a snippet of the learning page where we have data research and management guides as well as ways best practices to go about um Gathering your data so please visit the Hub if you would like to collect your own data as well all right we are going to move into our breakout sessions as we mentioned partner we have the eight rooms that we will be going into in your breakout room you will find several things there will be a contact sheet a link to the agenda with the slides and a research a resource page with examples as well as a helper the contact sheet is for you all to exchange your information with one another with one another I strongly advise that you download that page if you are having access issues while you're in your breakout room there will be a staff member in there that can help you with that but we would like for you all to download those contact pages so that you can contact each other and collaborate after this we consider this to be the beginning of a conversation we hope that these are ongoing um we know that there's a February 23rd 24th 2023 deadline um but I believe the call also said that they will have future funding so we hope that these collaborations can be intentional and successful in February and you know anytime in the future as well um

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