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Stimulated by the Office of Astronomy Development, its annual call for project
proposals, and other initiatives outside of this pathway, the number of
astronomy education projects is growing.  In order to make the most of this
expansion, the Working Group seeks to take a scientific approach to the
development and evaluation of these efforts.  Such an approach requires adequate
empirical research into the educational tools, models, and assessment methods
used in astronomy education across international settings.  As such the Working
Group seeks to enhance astronomy education research by developing international
astronomy education research capacity, research collaborations, and an astronomy
education research agenda, with the intention that this work will result in a
modern conception of the ways in which teaching and learning can effectively
happen in the context of astronomy. As first steps, the Working Group commits to
three goals: 

 1. Promoting Astronomy Education Research (AER) by adopting the international
    collaboration model used astronomy researchers,  

 2. Fostering international astronomy education and AER capacity through the
    development of networks, training and shared resources, and    

 3. Improving astronomy education by describing research based approaches to the
    teaching and learning of astronomy.

 In service of these goals, the Working Group commits to two immediate tasks:

 1. Promote, in different regions and continents, surveys, literature reviews
    and summary reviews of scholarly production that already exists on PhD and
    MSc Thesis, Published Papers in Journals and Proceedings of Meetings on
    Physics and Science Education, and

 2. The organization of a series of symposia and conferences in astronomy
    education research, to include structured networking, collaborative research
    sessions, methodological and publishing workshops, and the presentation of
    works of interest.

Products from these beginning steps will be a result of collaborations in the
diverse body of astronomy education researchers.  In the near term these
products will include:

 1. The production of works that describe the nature of the existing literature
    in the field, and

 2. The production of works describing the range of methods and findings found
    in the international research database, across a variety of constructs,
    including subject matter, instructional settings, audiences, and cognitive
    processes.

From these products the Working Group will be able to create documents that
describe:

 1. Research based practices in astronomy education, and

 2. A research agenda for the international astronomy education community.

Additional partners are welcome.




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