Morelock, J. R., & May, D., & Reid, A., & Boyce, A. S. S., & Sochacka, N. W., & Walther, J., & Janaki, C. (2023, June), Board 311: Impacts of the ProQual Institute: Building Communities of Technical Stem Faculty for Long-Term Engagement in Educational Research  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42865

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  Morelock, J. R., \& May, D., \& Reid, A., \& Boyce, A. S. S., \& Sochacka, N. W., \& Walther, J., \& Janaki, C. (2023, June), \emph{Board 311: Impacts of the ProQual Institute: Building Communities of Technical Stem Faculty for Long-Term Engagement in Educational Research}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--42865

John Ray Morelock, Dominik May, Aileen Reid, Ayesha Sherita Sherita Boyce, Nicola W. Sochacka, Joachim Walther, and Chaturved Janaki.  "Board 311: Impacts of the ProQual Institute: Building Communities of Technical Stem Faculty for Long-Term Engagement in Educational Research".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/42865 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_42865}
  John Ray Morelock, Dominik May, Aileen Reid, Ayesha Sherita Sherita Boyce, Nicola W. Sochacka, Joachim Walther, and Chaturved Janaki.
  "Board 311: Impacts of the ProQual Institute: Building Communities of Technical Stem Faculty for Long-Term Engagement in Educational Research".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/42865 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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AB  - This NSF Grantees Poster Session paper reports on the impacts of the ProQual Institute—a $1M NSF award via the NSF ECR-EHR Core Research program in 2019—as it nears the end of its penultimate year.  The ProQual Institute’s goal is to build national capacity for STEM education research by engaging technical STEM from across the U.S. in cohorts that participate in a semester-long course on qualitative and mixed methods educational research techniques.  Faculty from underrepresented backgrounds and from minority-serving institutions were given priority consideration in terms of recruitment and admission to participate in the project.  This project was funded on the basis of impact rather than knowledge generation; thus, this paper will report on the impacts of the ProQual Institute in terms of participants served, outcomes, and project team observations. 
  
Using the Qualifying Qualitative Research Quality (Q3) framework pioneered by Dr. Joachim Walther and colleagues as a foundation, the project team guided three cohorts of faculty (50 faculty total) in designing qualitative or mixed methods studies to address research questions they wanted to answer about their educational contexts.  The project team has also hosted four follow-up research incubators (each one semester long) as spaces to allow graduates of the ProQual Institute to continue working together as a community to continue developing educational research projects to completion or apply for extramural funding opportunities (serving 27 faculty total.)  Finally, the team has funded graduates of the ProQual Institute to lead communities of practice focused on areas of shared research interest among graduates.  These communities of practice were run independently from the project team. 
 
Preliminary project evaluation results indicate that the ProQual Institute has been a resounding success in achieving the goal of enabling and empowering technical engineering faculty to engage lastingly in educational research.  Through the developing shared language and a common methodological framework during the semester-long course, graduates of the ProQual Institute were able to effectively support one another in continuing to develop educational research projects beyond the course itself.  The project team observed that “leading” the research incubators required surprisingly little effort, as participants were capable of guiding myriad conversations around education research design on their own.  The outcomes of the ProQual Institute have important implications for the proliferation of educational research capacity in STEM, particularly in terms of the role of community in lasting engagement and the efficacy of propagation over dissemination as a guiding framework for change. 
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