Interacting with Professional Audiences

Team Leader: Senta A. Raizen

Project goal: The Interacting with Professional Audiences Team disseminates the results of NISE work and fosters dialogue among NISE researchers and the communities having interest in and a need for NISE products. The team helps other NISE teams plan and conduct dissemination activities, including helping them translate their technical results into articles that communicate to wider professional audiences. The team's Annual NISE Forum convenes representatives of the many NISE audiences to share research and developments in an area of SMET education reform selected for its importance and timeliness.

The Interacting with Professional Audiences Team also has recruited and is working with some 25 selected professional organizations—the Council of Chief State School Officers, the National Governors' Association, and the National Science Teachers Association, for example—that collaborate with the NISE more intensively. These collaborating organizations assist in NISE work and in disseminating NISE results in ways that are tailored to reach the members of each organization. 

Products: Six national forums have been held: Professional Development for Mathematics and Science Education: Putting Action into Knowledge (1996); Research on Systemic Reform: What Have We Learned? What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know? (1997); Indicators of Success in Postsecondary SMET Education: Shapes of the Future (1998); Strengthening Graduate Education in Science and Engineering: Promising Practices and Strategies for Implementation (1998); Evaluation of Systemic Reform in Mathematics and Science (1999); and From Preparation to Practice: NSF Teacher Education PI Workshop (1999).

NISE Publications of the Interacting with Professional Audiences Team

NISE-Related Publications of the Interacting with Professional Audiences Team