Building a GER Toolbox As you return from break, please reassemble into your working groups: Surveys and Instruments Analytical Tools Getting Published Navigating a Career in GER Conducting GER across Institutions Translating GER Results into Practice Check with workshop leaders or your email if you don’t remember which working group you are in. Does John have Working Group table cards? Do we have something to display them high on each table?

Building a GER Toolbox Workshop Goal: take action to address the needs of the GER community. Objective: Develop an online “GER Toolbox” to serve those new to GER and active GER workers. Build on needs identified from prior reports, focus groups, and surveys. It responses to recent calls for action in the geoscience education research community (Feig 2014; Lukes et al., 2015), and builds on outcomes and needs identified in the 2012 NRC analysis of discipline-based education research (DBER), the 2014 NAGT GER Division survey of members, the 2015 NSF-funded Shaping the Future of GER workshop, and in a project-supported 2016 community needs survey (http://nagt.org/nagt/profdev/workshops/GER_community/GER_webinar.html).

GER Community Survey Results: Average Ranking of Perceived Community Needs Agree Disagree Tend to Assistance in making GER results accessible & meaningful to practitioners An annotated bibliography of "best practice" papers in GER A database of published surveys and instruments for GER An online basic skills GER toolbox for those new to GER methodologies Prof dev/assist. identifying the best instrumentation to address GER questions Prof dev/assist. with developing quantitative GER research methodologies Mentorship by active/senior GER researchers Prof dev/assist. with developing qualitative GER research methodologies Networking opportunities for GER and social science researchers Access to GER data from published studies (e.g., a GER data repository) Assistance in educating non-GER colleagues on value/importance of GER Assistance with developing Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocols involving human subjects A national distinguished lecture series for GER A commonly agreed upon curriculum for graduate studies in GER Color (black vs green text) only used to make it easier to read when looking through the list of needs Limitation -preliminary analysis based only on word frequency. Next step - look for themes and insights into reasons why these are high need areas. Respondents generally showed a need for all of the items in Q4 (Average = 3.17 of 4.00) Confirmation that there are many GER community needs. Use this to set priorities. Do natural grouping exist? Respondents generally saw a greater need for the community than themselves (Average “you” = 3.00; Average “Community” = 3.34) Statistical Differences in responses based on the five factors were observed primarily in the areas of: Networking, access to a GER toolbox, GER Curriculum for training grads, and several areas for the individual researcher (e.g., quantitative and qualitative methods, increasing value among Non-GER peer faculty, increasing mentorship in GER, Access to Survey databases). Item wording above is abbreviated slightly from original, which can be found at: http://nagt.org/nagt/profdev/workshops/GER_community/GER_webinar.html

GER Community Survey Results: Open Response on Additional Needs Responses about needs not directly included in the survey point to more professional development and education, strategies/opportunities for collaboration with specialists across disciplines (e.g., social scientists), advice on GER career navigation, greater focus on target populations (e.g., K12) and teaching situations (e.g., field, distance education) and more visible and higher accredited journals. Limitation – preliminary analysis based only on word frequency, and grouping by themes. Next Step – more detailed analysis of theme areas, understand issues behind theme areas. Survey provides a rich dataset for setting priorities. Confirms findings from the GER Workshop and the NAGT Division member survey, and provides additional insights from broader respondent pool. Proposed Priorities for the GER Community: Expand access to existing instruments and tools useful in GER. Develop an online toolbox that can serve those new to GER and active GER workers. Develop resources and relationships to support GER career navigation. More targeted professional development in key GER areas. Expand and strengthen publication venues. Explore the different forms and issues associated with Data Repositories to support meta-analyses and other studies. Involve collaborations across disciplines (e.g., Geo and Social Science).

Target Toolbox Resources Building a GER Toolbox Starting Materials Target Toolbox Resources Pre-workshop information submitted Instruments and Surveys (things used to collect data) Analytical Tools (things used to analyze data) Getting Published Idea Papers Navigating a Career in GER Conducting GER across Institutions Translating GER Results into Practice Each target toolbox resource has a working group. Working groups should identify themes and subthemes in the starting materials. Intended audience includes active GER workers and those new to GER. We have 3 days here. Then there will be a period of editing and review. Toolbox will be hosted online by NAGT. Suggestions for efficiency and effectiveness: Each group should identify a leader and a note-taker. After brief discussion on themes, groups may want to form subgroups to address subthemes. Note that links to other starting resources also part of the starting materials for some groups. Leader helps group stay on task and makes sure everyone gets to speak. Note-taker organizes and records discussion using online SERC system. Can change leader and note taker each day if you wish.