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。科学和工程领域的巨大挑战需要对研究生进行广泛的专业培训，以便他们具备向不同受众成功传达技术概念的技能。如果科学的公共资助要为社会带来利益，科学家就需要能够与政策制定者对话，并且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以使公众了解情况。因此，科学传播培训越来越多地融入研究生科学教育中，但几乎没有方法可以确定培训是否真正有效，或者某些培训项目是否比其他项目效果更好。康涅狄格大学研究生教育创新 (IGE) 项目中的国家科学基金会研究实习 (NRT) 奖项将开发和测试工具，以衡量科学传播培训是否有效，并测试哪种方法最有效。这项创新试点项目将把理科研究生与新闻专业的学生配对，包括传统、数字和社交媒体的沟通技能培训。该项目将跨越学科并创建可在整个研究生教育界使用的评估工具。该项目将开发和测试新的教材和新的创新工具，以评估该模型是否成功地提高了科学、数学和工程学生之间的沟通效率和活动。在试点期间，年轻科学家将与记者配对，采用采访-撰写-评估-重复的模式。该项目将利用公开的社交媒体数据和本科生提供的评估来评估参与的研究生作为沟通者的有效性。这些数据将允许对培训前后的学生进行比较，以及传统评估方法与社交媒体分析提供的评估方法的比较。社交媒体指标还可以提供一种经济高效的方式来跟踪受训者的职业生涯。 该项目开发和测试的评估工具将可跨学科和大学转移，首次允许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、新颖的、具有潜在变革性和可扩展的 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、创新且具有潜在变革性的研究生教育方法。

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.