NRT-IGE: Training STEM Graduates to Communicate in the Digital Age, and Measuring Whether It Works.

NRT-IGE：培训STEM毕业生在数字时代进行沟通，并衡量其是否有效。科学和工程领域的重大挑战需要对研究生进行广泛的专业培训，以便他们拥有成功地将技术概念传达给不同受众的技能。如果科学的公共资金要造福社会，科学家需要能够与政策制定者对话，他们需要与商业伙伴对话，以创造创新机会。他们需要与记者交谈，让公众了解情况。因此，科学传播培训越来越多地融入研究生科学教育，但几乎没有方法来确定培训是否真正奏效，或者某些培训项目是否比其他培训项目效果更好。在康涅狄格大学的研究生教育创新(IGE)轨道上，这个国家科学基金会研究培训(NRT)奖将开发和测试工具，以衡量科学传播培训是否有效，并测试哪些方法效果最好。这项创新试点将把理科研究生与新闻学专业的学生配对，并包括传统媒体、数字媒体和社交媒体的沟通技能培训。该项目将搭建学科之间的桥梁，并创建可用于整个研究生教育社区的评估工具。该项目将开发和测试新的教材和新的创新工具，以评估该模式是否成功地提高了科学、数学和工程专业学生之间的沟通效率和活动。在试点期间，青年科学家将与记者配对，进行采访-写作-评估-重复模式。该项目将利用可公开获得的社交媒体数据和本科生提供的评估来评估参与项目的研究生作为沟通者的有效性。这些数据将允许学生在培训前和培训后进行比较，并将传统评估方法与通过社交媒体分析提供的评估方法进行比较。社交媒体指标还可能提供一种成本和劳动力效益高的手段，来跟踪受训人员的职业生涯。在这个项目中开发和测试的评估工具将可以在不同的学科和大学之间转移，首次允许在使用不同培训策略的项目之间进行成本效益比较。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: Training STEM Graduates to Communicate in the Digital Age and Measuring Whether it Works. The grand challenges in science and engineering require broad professional training for graduate students so they have the skills to successfully communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences. Scientists need to be able to talk with policymakers if public funding of science is to yield benefits to society, and they need to talk with commercial partners to create opportunities for innovation. They need to talk with journalists to keep the public informed. Accordingly, science communication training is increasingly integrated into graduate science education, but there are few methods for determining whether training actually works or whether some training programs work better than others. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track to the University of Connecticut will develop and test tools to measure whether training in science communication works and to test which methods work best. The innovative pilot will pair science graduate students with journalism majors and include communication skills training in traditional, digital, and social media. The project will bridge disciplines and create assessment tools that can be used across the graduate education community.The project will develop and test new teaching materials and new innovative tools to evaluate whether the model succeeds in increasing communication effectiveness and activity among science, math, and engineering students. During the pilot, young scientists will be paired with journalists to engage in an interview-write-assess-repeat model. The project will utilize publicly available social media data and evaluations provided by undergraduate students to assess the participating graduate students' effectiveness as communicators. These data will permit comparisons of students before and after training and comparisons of traditional assessment methods with those provided through social media analytics. Social media metrics may also provide a cost- and labor-effective means to track trainees over the course of their careers. The assessment tools developed and tested in this project will be transferable across disciplines and universities, for the first time permitting cost-benefit comparisons among programs using different training strategies. 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.