Investigating the Operational Meaning and Occurrence of Institutional Integration and Innovation in NSF's I-cubed Activity

探究NSF I-cubed活动中机构整合与创新的操作意义与发生

• 批准号: 0963209
• 负责人: Joy Frechtling
• 金额: $ 124.83万
• 依托单位: Westat Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963209&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Investigating; Operational; Meaning; Occurrence; Institutional

This research project focuses on how awardees in NSF's Innovation through Institution Integration activity ("I3") operationalize the meaning of "institutional integration" and "innovation" and seeks to quantify the nature and evolution of these campus-wide collaborative networks. The project examines the extent to which changes occur in activities (planning, budgeting, scheduling, evaluating), organizational/social identity (identification with a single NSF program/and or group of people working on a grant as opposed to identification with NSF efforts more broadly and the people engaged in the work), and mental models or schema (shared cognition about the nature of the problem, what needs to be addressed, and appropriate strategies for addressing them). This work is also looking at the extent to which the selection of particular themes identified in the I3 solicitation and around which projects must build integration - broadening participation, critical educational junctures, globally engaged workforce, integration of research and education, and research and evaluation - appear to affect project outcomes and success. Methodologically, the project employs two complementary approaches, Social Network Analysis (SNA) and case studies, to examine institutional integration of NSF programs. SNA, a methodology that has only recently been applied to educational issues, provides a new way to study the interactions among individuals from disparate NSF programs within an I3 institution. The research project studies networks as they are implicit in a wide range of social phenomena, and can provide an important perspective on the I3 activity and the partnerships that are so central to it. The guiding assumption in the logic of SNA applications is that the overall structure of a network has consequences not only for its individual members, but also for the group, community, and institutional culture. Therefore, SNA provides a tool for describing and assessing the quality of relations among people and understanding the pattern of connections. To create a more comprehensive picture of not only the "what" but also the "why," the research includes case studies of I3 projects. These studies are developed from 3-day site visits to the I3 projects by a multidisciplinary team composed of content (institutional change, organizational development) and evaluation experts, and include key informant interviews with individuals directly or indirectly involved with the project and review of documents.

该研究项目重点关注 NSF 机构整合创新活动（“I3”）的获奖者如何运用“机构整合”和“创新”的含义，并寻求量化这些校园范围内协作网络的性质和演变。 该项目检查活动（规划、预算、日程安排、评估）、组织/社会认同（对单个 NSF 项目/和/或从事资助工作的一群人的认同，而不是对更广泛的 NSF 工作和参与工作的人员的认同）以及心理模型或图式（对问题性质、需要解决的问题的共同认知以及解决这些问题的适当策略）发生变化的程度。 这项工作还着眼于 I3 招标中确定的特定主题的选择以及项目必须围绕哪些项目建立整合——扩大参与、关键教育时刻、全球参与的劳动力、研究和教育的整合以及研究和评估——似乎对项目成果和成功的影响程度。 在方法论上，该项目采用两种互补的方法，即社会网络分析（SNA）和案例研究，来检验 NSF 项目的机构整合。 SNA 是一种最近才应用于教育问题的方法，它提供了一种研究 I3 机构内不同 NSF 项目的个体之间相互作用的新方法。 该研究项目研究网络，因为它们隐含在广泛的社会现象中，并且可以为 I3 活动和对其至关重要的伙伴关系提供重要视角。 SNA 应用逻辑的指导性假设是网络的整体结构不仅对其个体成员产生影响，而且对群体、社区和机构文化也产生影响。 因此，SNA提供了描述和评估人与人之间关系质量以及理解联系模式的工具。 为了更全面地了解“什么”和“原因”，该研究包括 I3 项目的案例研究。 这些研究由内容（机构变革、组织发展）和评估专家组成的多学科团队对 I3 项目进行为期 3 天的实地考察，包括对直接或间接参与项目的个人的关键知情人访谈以及文件审查。