Investigator input on the EHR Core Research (ECR) 2020 Principal Investigator Meeting

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ECR 2020 PI pre-meeting survey (11Sep’20) |

Following are: (1) text for an email to be sent from a contractor to respondents (principal investigators and co-principal investigators) with a request that they complete a brief online survey; and (2) the wording of the five items to be included in this online survey. The purpose of the survey is to provide information for the development of the agenda for the NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Core Research (ECR) program’s 2020 virtual investigator meeting.

In preparation for the upcoming virtual meeting of investigators supported by NSF’s EHR Core Research (ECR) program, we are asking for your input through a short survey about the meeting’s topics.

As a reminder, our firm, AEIO, is working with NSF on plans for this investigator meeting, which will take place virtually Monday November 30^th and Tuesday December 1^st, beginning around noon and concluding by 5:30pm Eastern Time each day.

While participation in the survey is voluntary and should take about six minutes to complete, your insights will be invaluable in ensuring the meeting serves the needs of all the STEM education research communities that ECR supports. Please [follow/click on] the URL below to share your thoughts before [CLOSING DATE OF SURVEY]. A federal agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number; the number for this is 3145-0215.

On behalf of the NSF and AEIO team, thank you in advance for your participation. We look forward to welcoming you to the investigator meeting!

PI meeting topics

1. The ECR investigator meeting provides an opportunity for projects to share emerging evidence with promise to address current issues in STEM education. Please indicate which of the following proposed concurrent session topics you would be interested in attending. Please check all that apply.

Topic number	Topic	I would definitely attend	I might attend	I would not attend
1	Design & validation of new modalities of educational delivery
2	Developing and testing new methodologies for STEM education research, synthesis, and evaluation
3	Educational neuroscience projects focused on aspects of STEM learning
4	Fundamental discipline-based education research focused on undergraduate and graduate STEM education
5	Fundamental research on diversity, equity, inclusion, and the STEM workforce
6	Fundamental research for workforce development
7	Innovations in virtual and personalized learning for the STEM workforce
8	Learning about learning in new educational settings
9	Math cognition
10	Methodologies and assessment of STEM learning in cyberspace
11	Motivation, persistence, mindsets, and learning in a digital world
12	New pathways to STEM and STEM education careers
13	Partnering with communities: toward more inclusive STEM research
14	The future of STEM education
15	Other Please specify __________________________________________

2. One of NSF’s major goals for this meeting is to provide investigators with opportunities to showcase their work. All investigators will be given an opportunity to contribute to a virtual poster hall. (Additional information about the virtual poster hall, and how you can use the hall to share information about and interact with others around your ECR-supported work, will be distributed separately.)

If you would also be interested in sharing information about your project in a panel or a concurrent ‘break-out’ session on one of the following topics, please let us know by noting in the spaces provided (a) your award number, and (b) an email address where NSF can contact you if your work can be featured in the program.

Topic number	Topic	Award number	Investigator e-mail address
1	Design & validation of new modalities of educational delivery
2	Developing and testing new methodologies for STEM education research, synthesis, and evaluation
3	Educational neuroscience projects focused on aspects of STEM learning
4	Fundamental discipline-based education research focused on undergraduate and graduate STEM education
5	Fundamental research on diversity, equity, inclusion, and the STEM workforce
6	Fundamental research for workforce development
7	Innovations in virtual and personalized learning for the STEM workforce
8	Learning about learning in new educational settings
9	Math cognition
10	Methodologies and assessment of STEM learning in cyberspace
11	Motivation, persistence, mindsets, and learning in a digital world
12	New pathways to STEM and STEM education careers
13	Partnering with communities: toward more inclusive STEM research
14	The future of STEM education
15	Other Please specify __________________________________________

3. Another of NSF’s goals for this meeting is to provide updates on the ECR program and other funding opportunities. What kinds of information would you find particularly helpful in this regard? Please check all that apply.

____ Information on the ECR program overall

____ Information on the ECR:BCSER (Building Capacity in STEM Education

Research) competition; e.g.,

____ Individual investigator development in STEM education research

____ Institutes in Research Methods

____ Information on the ECR core research competition and/or its associated

Dear Colleague Letters; e.g.,

____ Developing and testing new methodologies for STEM learning

Research, research syntheses, and evaluation

____ Fundamental discipline-based education research focused on

Undergraduate and graduate STEM education

____ Fundamental research on equity, inclusion, and ethics in

Postsecondary academic workplaces and the academic profession

____ Research to improve STEM teaching and learning, and workforce

Development for persons with disabilities

____ STEM workforce development utilizing flexible personal learning

environments

____ Guidance on developing compelling proposals

____ Information on other EHR programs

Please specify________________________

4. Are there any other issues you would like the investigator meeting to address? Please use the space below to share your thoughts.

About your ECR-supported work

5. ECR supports several strands of fundamental STEM education research initiatives and projects that build capacity to conduct such research. Please let us know what kind(s) of ECR project you are currently conducting. Please check all that apply.

____ ECR core research (a proposal submitted to NSF 13-555, NSF 15-

509, or NSF 19-508)

____ ECR: BCSER (Building Capacity for STEM Education Research; a

Proposal submitted to NSF 19-565 or NSF 20-521)

____ ECR: PEER (Production Engineering Education and Research; a

proposal submitted to NSF 19-557)

____ A CAREER award supported by the ECR program.

____ Other

Please specify: ______________________

Thank you for your input.

We look forward to seeing you November 30^th & December 1^st.