A community framework for geoscience education research: Summary and recommendations for future research priorities

The geoscience education research (GER) community has produced a collaborative research framework that summarizes guiding questions for future research to inform and improve undergraduate geoscience teaching and learning. The GER Framework (St. John [Ed.], 2018a) was developed through an iterative process involving multiple stages of community input. In total, approximately 200 geoscience educators and researchers contributed to this project in one or more of the following capacities: as authors, reviewers, survey respondents, workshop participants, webinar participants, town hall participants, and/or focus group participants. Review of survey data, reports, publications, and discussions resulted in a set of guiding questions and research strategies for ten research areas where individual researchers can make important contributions. While presented as distinct research areas, the ten themes have numerous cross-theme opportunities that integrate content areas, skills, and types of students. Cross-theme recommendations regarding strategies for future research are described here, along with suggested synergies with other national efforts in geoscience and STEM education.

地球科学教育研究（Geoscience Education Research, GER）领域的学术社群已产出一套协作式研究框架，该框架梳理了未来研究的指导性问题，旨在为本科地球科学的教与学提供参考并推动其优化。这套GER研究框架（St. John [编]，2018a）通过迭代流程开发完成，该流程包含多阶段的社群意见征集环节。本项目累计共有约200名地球科学教育工作者与研究者参与贡献，参与形式涵盖以下一种或多种：作者、评审员、问卷受访者、工作坊参与者、线上研讨会参与者、市政厅式研讨参与者，以及/或者焦点小组参与者。通过对调研数据、报告、出版物及研讨内容的梳理与审阅，最终形成了针对十大研究领域的指导性问题与研究策略，单个研究者可在这些领域中发挥重要作用。尽管这十大主题以独立研究领域的形式呈现，但它们之间存在大量跨主题研究契机，可实现内容模块、技能培养与学生群体的有机融合。本文还阐述了针对未来研究策略的跨主题建议，并提出了与地球科学及科学、技术、工程与数学（Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics，STEM）教育领域其他国家级项目开展协同合作的可行方向。