Review of applications will begin December 9. Applications will be accepted through January 6.

Housed at the University of Chicago, and a joint effort with Michigan State University, the summer institute in advanced research methods for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education research (SIARM for STEM II) is funded via a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation (2024-2027).

The project team includes leading experts of different disciplines who have developed cutting-edge quantitative methods and directly contributed to STEM education research. The 7-member advisory board consists of a diverse group of leading scholars and leaders of minority-serving institutions and funding agencies who have made major contributions to research and practice concerning educational equity and institutional diversity.

The team will select a diverse cohort of 25 NSF Fellows of STEM Education Research among early- and mid-career scholars, especially those under-represented in STEM, with the goals of:

(a) helping Fellows master rigorous and novel applications of advanced methods to STEM education research,

(b) providing continuous methodological support in research planning, data analysis, and publication,

(c) creating a community that prepares Fellows to take leadership in advancing STEM education research and effectively serving as role models for the next generation of a diverse population of students.

This training will focus on methodological challenges that arise in studies that aim to improve STEM education, with a particular focus on understanding the sources of unequal access to STEM learning opportunities and evaluating strategies for transforming STEM education to advance equity and inclusion. In pursuing these questions, the greatest methodological challenges include research designs and causal inference, measurement, social network analysis/computational methods, multilevel modeling, and causal moderation, mediation and decomposition analyses for analyzing qualitative and social media data.

Is This a Great Opportunity for You?

– Are you studying STEM education in your research?

– Are you interested in issues of education equity?

– Do you want to explore the possibility of applying new quantitative techniques in your work?

– Are you excited about joining a community of current and future leaders in STEM education research?

Who Is Eligible?

Applicants must have obtained a PhD or EdD degree by Summer 2025. Early-career scholars are typically under 7 years after obtaining a doctoral degree; mid-career scholars are typically within their first fifteen years of academic or other research-related employment.