NRT-IGE: From Engagement to Action: 21st Century STEM Scholars and Land Grant Opportunities

NRT-IGE：从参与到行动：21 世纪 STEM 学者和土地赠款机会

• 批准号: 1545341
• 负责人: Julie Coffield
• 金额: $ 49.58万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1545341&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRT; IGE; Engagement; Action; 21st

NRT-IGE: From Engagement to Action: 21st Century STEM Scholars and Land Grant Opportunities Twenty-first century scientists and engineers must possess skills that enable them to reach beyond the laboratory, across disciplines and into communities to identify issues and develop solutions that increase both resilience and sustainability. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track to the University of Georgia will pilot an approach adapted from health sciences training to provide newly matriculating doctoral students with targeted skills training. The results of this pilot study will advance our understanding of the impact of early, immersive professional development on the contributions that students can make to research during their graduate studies, as well as longer term impact on career placement and success. The goals of this project are to: 1) determine key considerations in transferring this pedagogical model from the health professions, in which it was established, to broad STEM domains; 2) determine the effect of providing skills training at the beginning of a student?s graduate career; and 3) develop best practices for sustainably implementing the model, should it prove to be effective in this context. Students participating in this pilot will engage initially in an eight-week summer boot camp before their first semester of graduate studies to help them develop targeted transferable professional skills in collaboration, leadership, and community engagement. They will progress to a first-semester Challenge Course in which they will work in small, multidisciplinary teams on a real problem identified in partnership with a Georgia community. Faculty mentors will use a modified challenge-based learning format to guide students through this process so that the process is internalized and carried forward meaningfully in the context of their own research. As students progress through the program, they will further hone their skills and apply their knowledge as they mentor more junior graduate students. Data will be collected to examine the model impact, both on the participating students as well as on the labs in which they work. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative, and scalable models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.

NRT-IGE：从参与到行动：21世纪世纪STEM学者和土地赠与机会21世纪世纪的科学家和工程师必须具备技能，使他们能够超越实验室，跨学科和社区，以确定问题和开发解决方案，提高弹性和可持续性。这个国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）在研究生教育创新（IGE）轨道奖给格鲁吉亚大学将试点从健康科学培训适应的方法，为新入学的博士生提供有针对性的技能培训。这项试点研究的结果将促进我们对早期，沉浸式专业发展的影响的理解，学生可以在研究生学习期间进行研究，以及对职业安置和成功的长期影响。该项目的目标是：1）确定将这种教学模式从建立的卫生专业转移到广泛的STEM领域的关键考虑因素; 2）确定在学生开始时提供技能培训的效果？3）制定可持续实施该模式的最佳做法，如果它在这方面被证明是有效的。参加该试点的学生将在研究生学习的第一学期之前参加为期八周的夏季靴子营地，以帮助他们在协作，领导和社区参与方面发展有针对性的可转移专业技能。他们将进展到第一学期的挑战课程，他们将在小型，多学科团队中与格鲁吉亚社区合作确定一个真实的问题。教师导师将使用修改后的挑战为基础的学习格式，引导学生通过这一过程，使这一过程是内在的，并在自己的研究背景下有意义地向前推进。随着学生通过该计划的进展，他们将进一步磨练自己的技能，并运用他们的知识，因为他们指导更多的低年级研究生。数据将被收集，以检查模型的影响，无论是对参与的学生，以及在他们工作的实验室。NSF研究培训（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的，新的，潜在的变革性和可扩展的STEM研究生教育培训模型。研究生教育创新轨道专门致力于试点，测试和评估新颖，创新和潜在的变革性研究生教育方法。