Workshop on Education Research Positions in STEM Disciplinary Departments: Number 2 in the Series of CFE Symposia on Growing Human Capital in STEM Higher Education December 5, 2005 AGENDA NOTE: This agenda links to an unedited verbatim transcript of the Workshop on Education Research Positions in STEM Disciplinary Departments prepared by CASET Associates. The transcript is not an official report of National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, or National Research Council (collectively “National Academies”). Opinions and statements included in the transcript are solely those of the individual persons or participants at the workshop, and are not necessarily adopted or endorsed or verified as accurate by The National Academies.
8:30 a.m.	Welcome and Introductions	Welcome and Introductions
	Martin Orland, Director, Center for Education Susan Hixson, Program Director, Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF Daniel Litynski, Division Director (Acting), Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF Joan Ferrini-Mundy, University Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean for Science and Mathematics Education, Michigan State University
8:50 am	Session 1: Motivations and Purposes Karl A. Smith, Moderator	Faculty Roundtable on Motivations and Purposes
	Melanie Cooper, Professor of Chemistry, Clemson University	Survey Responses
	PK Imbrie, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Purdue University	Survey Responses
	Julie Libarkin, Assistant Professor of Geosciences, Ohio University	Survey Responses
	Owen Astrachan, Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Duke University	Survey Responses
	Chris Rasmussen, Associate Professor of Mathematics, San Diego State University	Survey Responses
	Kimberly Tanner, Assistant Professor of Biology, San Francisco State University	Survey Responses
	Michael Wittmann, Assistant Professor of Physics and Cooperating Assistant Professor, College of Education and Human Development, University of Maine	Survey Responses
	Guiding questions for discussion: • What motivated you and your colleagues to specialize in discipline-specific education research? • What did you hope to achieve when entering this field, and what do you still hope to achieve? • Did future career prospects affect your decision to specialize in discipline-specific education research?
9:50	Administrators’ Roundtable Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Moderator	Administrators’ Roundtable
	Christopher Gould, Associate Dean, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, North Carolina State University	Survey Responses
	Louis Fox, Vice Provost for Partnerships and Learning Technologies and Professor, Information School, University of Washington	Survey Responses
	Joseph Heppert, Chair and Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas	Survey Responses
	Elizabeth Simmons, Director, Lyman Briggs School of Science and Professor of Physics, Michigan State University
	Guiding questions for discussion: • For what purpose(s) did you and your colleagues create one or more educational research positions within a disciplinary department? • For what purpose (s) did you and your colleagues support creation of educational research positions within disciplinary departments or within new institutional structures? • What was your and your colleagues’ “theory of action” about how to achieve these purposes by creating educational research positions?
10:30	Questions and General Discussion
	Moderator Reflections on Session Karl A. Smith
10:40	Break
10:45	Session 2: Institutional Arrangements Dean Zollman, University Distinguished Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Scholar and Chair, Department of Physics University, Kansas State University, Moderator	Institutional Arrangements and Job Markets
10:50	Job Markets and Career Trajectories in Science and Mathematics Education
	Scott Ashmann, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay	Presentation
	Robert Glasgow, Associate Professor, Southwest Baptist University	Presentation
11:40	Questions and General Discussion
12:00 pm	Moderator Reflections on Session Dean Zollman
12:10	Lunch

1:00	Session 3: Break-Out Discussions of Motivations Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Moderator
	Faculty Group 1: Room 104
	Maura Borrego, Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Draft Paper
	Mark Guzdial, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology	Survey Responses
	Jennifer Lewis, Assistant Professor, University of South Florida	Survey Responses
	Sharon McCrone, Associate Professor, Illinois State University	Survey Responses
	Faculty Group 2: Room 1024 Karl A. Smith, Moderator Roundtable discussions of the following questions: • What motivated you and your colleagues to specialize in discipline-specific education research? • What did you hope to achieve when entering this field, and what do you still hope to achieve? • Did future career prospects, including prospects for research funding, affect your decision to specialize in discipline-specific educational research?
	Administrators Group: Room 105 Dean Zollman, Moderator Roundtable discussions of the following questions: • For what purpose(s) did you and your colleagues create one or more educational research positions within a disciplinary department? • For what purpose (s) did you and your colleagues support creation of educational research positions within disciplinary departments or within new institutional structures? • What was your and your colleagues’ “theory of action” about how to achieve these purposes by creating educational research positions?
1:45	Moderator reflections on break-out discussions	Moderator Reflections
2:00	Questions and general discussion
2:15	Session 4: Break-Out Discussions of Institutional Arrangements
	Faculty Group 3: Stay in Room 105 Dean Zollman, Moderator Faculty Group 4: Room 104 Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Moderator Roundtable discussions of the following questions: • What are your responsibilities for teaching, research, and service? (e.g., teaching loads, courses, coaching/mentoring roles, types of research, liaison roles with education department)? • In what ways (if any) do your responsibilities differ from your non-education focused colleagues? • In what ways (if any) do your current position and your career prospects differ from your non-education focused colleagues? (e.g., title and rank, paths to tenure, resource issues, joint appointments with other departments) • What lessons have you learned about the opportunities and challenges of conducting educational research within a disciplinary department?
	Administrators’ Group: Room 1024 Karl A. Smith, Moderator: Roundtable discussion of the following questions: • What has been your role in supporting discipline-specific educational research? • What institutional arrangements have you used in establishing and supporting these faculty positions? What challenges have you encountered, both institutionally and culturally? • What types of institutional arrangements have you used to support departments in developing educational research positions?
3:00	Break
3:15	Session 5: Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons Learned Susan Hixson, NSF, moderator	Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
	Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Michigan State University Karl A. Smith, University of Minnesota, Dean Zollman, Kansas State University Roundtable discussion of the following questions • What have you learned about the opportunities and challenges of conducting educational research/supporting educational research within STEM disciplinary departments? • What new institutional structures are evolving to support discipline-specific educational research? • What are the future prospects for young faculty in these positions? Do the prospects vary by discipline? • What are the future prospects for departments/schools that support these faculty positions? Do these prospects vary by discipline? • What are the opportunities and challenges for discipline-specific education research as an emerging sub-field of research within each discipline?
3:45	Questions and General Discussion
4:15	Session 6: Next Steps for Educational Research Positions in STEM Disciplines Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Moderator:	Next Steps
	Scott Ashmann, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Robert Glasgow, Southwest Baptist University • How can or should the success of this movement be judged? • What research is needed to understand the scope, institutional arrangements, and future prospects for education researchers in STEM departments? • How can schools of education and disciplinary departments collaborate to support rigorous discipline-specific educational research and researchers?
4:45	Questions from the audience and general discussion
5:00	Adjourn