The Snowbird Charrette: Integrative Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Environmental Research Design
The Snowbird Charrette: Integrative Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Environmental Research Design
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DOI：
10.1007/s11024-009-9136-0
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发表时间：
2009-12-01
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影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Rhoten, Diana R.
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作者：
Hackett, Edward J.;Rhoten, Diana R.
来自不同学科的思想、方法和数据的整合已经成为科学和高等教育的变革力量，吸引了政策干预、项目创新、财政资源和人才。在培养新一代的科学家方面投入了大量的精力，这些科学家受过跨学科、部门和研究问题的训练，但这些投资的成功很难衡量。利用美国国家科学基金会的综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）项目作为战略研究地点，我们进行了一项实验，以确定IGERT培训的科学家的研究过程和成果是否以及如何与那些在学科研究生项目中培训的科学家不同。在研究生学习早期的科学家中，我们发现了实质性和一致性的差异，这表明跨学科训练提高了研究的质量和过程，但这种模式在研究生学习后期的学生中同样强烈地逆转。通过系统的观察和其他数据，我们提出了为什么会这样，然后讨论了这些结果对研究生教育和研究的设计和实施的影响。
The integration of ideas, methods, and data from diverse disciplines has been a transformative force in science and higher education, attracting policy interventions, program innovations, financial resources, and talented people. Much energy has been invested in producing a new generation of scientists trained to work fluidly across disciplines, sectors, and research problems, yet the success of such investments has been difficult to measure. Using the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program of the U.S. National Science Foundation as a strategic research site, we conducted an experiment to determine whether and how the process and products of research of IGERT-trained scientists differ from those of scientists trained in disciplinary graduate programs. Among scientists in the early years of graduate study we found substantial and consistent differences suggesting that interdisciplinary training improved the quality and process of research, but this pattern was equally strongly reversed among students in the latter years of graduate study. Using systematic observation and other data we suggest why this might be so, then discuss the implications of these results for the design and conduct of graduate education and research.