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。

• 批准号: 1545458
• 负责人: Margaret Rubega
• 金额: $ 49.92万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 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=1545458&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRT; IGE; Training; STEM; Graduates

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.

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研究生接受广泛的专业培训，以便他们能够成功地将技术概念传达给不同的受众。科学家需要能够与政策制定者对话，如果公共资助的科学要为社会带来好处，他们需要与商业伙伴对话，为创新创造机会。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，但很少有方法来确定培训是否真的有效，或者一些培训项目是否比其他项目更有效。这个国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖在研究生教育创新（IGE）轨道康涅狄格大学将开发和测试工具，以衡量在科学传播的培训是否工作，并测试哪些方法最有效。创新试点将使科学研究生与新闻专业的学生配对，并包括传统，数字和社交媒体的沟通技能培训。该项目将建立学科之间的桥梁，并创建可在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学材料和新的创新工具，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，参与采访-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研究生作为传播者的有效性。这些数据将允许学生在培训前后进行比较，并将传统评估方法与通过社交媒体分析提供的方法进行比较。社交媒体指标还可以提供一种成本效益和劳动力效益高的手段来跟踪学员的职业生涯。 在这个项目中开发和测试的评估工具将跨学科和大学转移，第一次允许使用不同的培训策略的方案之间的成本效益比较。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。