Analyzing the Peer Review Process at NSF

分析 NSF 的同行评审流程

• 批准号: 0606649
• 负责人: David DiBiasio
• 金额: $ 0.99万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-03-01 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0606649&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Analyzing; Peer; Review; Process; NSF

Interdisciplinary (99)In this project, student interns are developing a process for characterizing and evaluating the quality of individual reviews and for selecting appropriate reviewers for panels based on specific desired characteristics. A team of three undergraduate students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will work at the NSF full time during the fall semester in an internship program. Regular WPI faculty members, who are resident in Washington with the students, are guiding their work with consultation from NSF personnel who have access to data and other resources that the students need. Intellectual merit of the proposed project results because it will enable program officers to select appropriate reviewers more effectively thereby improving the peer review process at NSF. This, in turn, will lead to higher quality, more consistent reviews and thus to a more productive use of NSF funds and a greater potential that funded work results in real improvements in student learning. Broader impacts result because the project will help project officers to create more diverse panels. Also the research that improves teaching and learning ultimately benefits society by improving the state of STEM education. Finally, as young scientists and engineers, the students who participate in this project are affected directly in a way that broadens their educational horizons.

跨学科（99）在这个项目中，实习学生正在发展一个过程，以描述和评价个别评论的质量，并根据特定的期望特征为小组选择适当的评论人。来自伍斯特理工学院（WPI）的三名本科生将在秋季学期的实习项目中在国家科学基金会全职工作。常住在华盛顿的WPI教职员工与学生们在一起，他们与国家科学基金会的工作人员协商，指导他们的工作，这些工作人员可以获得学生们需要的数据和其他资源。建议项目结果的智力价值，因为它将使项目官员能够更有效地选择合适的审稿人，从而改进NSF的同行评审过程。反过来，这将导致更高的质量，更一致的审查，从而更有效地使用国家科学基金的资金和更大的潜力，资助的工作结果在学生学习的真正改善。由于该项目将帮助项目官员创建更多样化的小组，因此会产生更广泛的影响。此外，改善教学和学习的研究最终会通过改善STEM教育状况而造福社会。最后，作为年轻的科学家和工程师，参与这个项目的学生直接受到影响，拓宽了他们的教育视野。