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学者和土地批出机会21世纪的科学家和工程师必须拥有使他们能够超越实验室、跨学科和进入社区的技能，以发现问题并开发提高复原力和可持续性的解决方案。在佐治亚大学的研究生教育创新(IGE)轨道上，国家科学基金会研究培训(NRT)奖将试验一种改编自健康科学培训的方法，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加深我们对早期沉浸式专业发展对学生在研究生学习期间对研究做出贡献的影响，以及对职业安置和成功的长期影响的理解。该项目的目标是：1)确定将这一教学模式从其成立的卫生专业领域转移到广泛的STEM领域的关键考虑因素；2)确定在S研究生职业生涯之初提供技能培训的效果；3)开发可持续实施该模式的最佳实践，如果它在这方面被证明是有效的。参与这一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暑期新兵训练营，以帮助他们在协作、领导力和社区参与方面培养有针对性的可转移的专业技能。他们将进入第一学期的挑战课程，在这门课程中，他们将与佐治亚州的一个社区合作，以小型的、多学科的团队合作解决一个真正的问题。教师导师将使用一种改进的基于挑战的学习形式来指导学生完成这一过程，以便在他们自己的研究背景下将这一过程内在化并有意义地进行下去。随着学生在项目中的进步，他们将在指导更多低年级研究生的同时，进一步磨练自己的技能并应用自己的知识。将收集数据以检查模型对参与学生以及他们工作的实验室的影响。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研究生教育培训模式。研究生教育创新轨道专门致力于试验、测试和评估研究生教育的新颖、创新和潜在的变革性方法。

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.