Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institutes 2019-2022

理论模型的实证意义 (EITM) 暑期学院 2019-2022

• 批准号: 1756746
• 负责人: Rocio Titiunik
• 金额: $ 199.95万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-15 至 2020-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1756746&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Empirical; Implications; Theoretical; Models; EITM

America's private and public sectors work hard to improve national security, economic growth, and quality of life for people around the world. In an increasingly competitive global environment, American competitiveness often depends on analyzing the best available data and evidence in ways that are rigorous and actionable. Our military, our farms, our factories, our tech companies, and our governments benefit from analyses that document the effect of past and current programs and provide a credible basis for improving future effectiveness and efficiency. The EITM (Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models) program is designed to help young scholars develop research designs in ways that advance critical scientific knowledge and that make that knowledge more relevant and usable to the private and public sector. EITM pursues these goals by providing opportunities for scholars to better leverage possible intersections between theoretical modeling and empirical inference. For example, today sophisticated methods for examining qualitative data, text, "big data", networks and related phenomena are drawing scholars' attention. EITM his attention increases the opportunities for, and headwinds facing, theory-empirical integrations. A new approach to EITM can help scholars increase the credibility and value of the knowledge that they are now producing. The EITM Summer Institutes offer younger scholars an opportunity to work with senior scholars who are leaders in advancing theoretical and empirical research. The content of Institute activities pertains to the development and expansion of best practices. The substantive focus is on areas where appreciable research integrating theory and methods already exists. Institute activities transcend passive receipt of lecture material. Each institute offers participants multiple dynamic opportunities to receive mentoring and feedback from a wide range of sources. Each institute combines a rigorous curriculum with a wide range of one-to-one mentoring opportunities with leading faculty from across the country. EITM is committed to making these opportunities available to people from all backgrounds. We have worked with other groups to deal with the fact that aspiring members of historically underrepresented populations often desire the benefits of an EITM experience, but lack confidence that their institutions have adequately prepared them. EITM's expanded Scholarship program gives us the ability to be proactive in building new opportunity pipelines for such individuals. In short, EITM emphasizes addressing important substantive and methodological problems with a combination of clearly-stated premises, logically coherent theory explaining relations among concepts named in the premises, and a logically coherent empirical work developed to evaluate the premises and/or the relations. Society benefits when its members can develop, articulate, and apply logically-coherent and empirically robust explanations of critical social phenomena. Dealing with such questions directly, as EITM does, is a means to new levels of accuracy and reliability for the growing range of private and public sector entities that use social science to improve their effectiveness and efficiency. Developing a generation of scholars who are up to helping the nation effectively confront its most significant challenges and to make the most of its evolving opportunities is the main goal of the EITM approach.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

美国的私营部门和公共部门努力改善国家安全、经济增长和世界各地人民的生活质量。在竞争日益激烈的全球环境中，美国的竞争力往往取决于以严格且可操作的方式分析最佳可用数据和证据。我们的军队、我们的农场、我们的工厂、我们的科技公司和我们的政府都受益于这些分析，这些分析记录了过去和当前计划的效果，并为提高未来的效力和效率提供了可信的基础。EITM（理论模型的经验意义）计划旨在帮助年轻学者以推进关键科学知识的方式开发研究设计，并使这些知识对私营和公共部门更具相关性和实用性。EITM通过为学者提供更好地利用理论建模和经验推理之间可能的交叉点的机会来实现这些目标。例如，今天，研究定性数据、文本、“大数据”、网络和相关现象的复杂方法正在引起学者的注意。他的关注增加了理论与经验整合的机会和面临的阻力。一种新的EITM方法可以帮助学者提高他们现在正在生产的知识的可信度和价值。EITM夏季研究所为年轻学者提供了与高级学者合作的机会，这些学者是推进理论和实证研究的领导者。研究所的活动内容涉及发展和推广最佳做法。实质性的重点是那些已经存在的将理论和方法相结合的可观研究的领域。研究所的活动超越了被动接受讲座材料。每个研究所都为参与者提供多种动态机会，以获得来自广泛来源的指导和反馈。每个学院都将严格的课程与来自全国各地的领先教师的广泛的一对一指导机会相结合。EITM致力于为所有背景的人提供这些机会。我们与其他团体合作，以应对这样一个事实，即历史上代表性不足的人群中有抱负的成员往往希望获得EITM经验的好处，但缺乏信心，他们的机构已经为他们做好了充分的准备。EITM的扩大奖学金计划使我们能够积极主动地为这些人建立新的机会渠道。简而言之，EITM强调解决重要的实质性和方法论问题，结合明确陈述的前提，逻辑上连贯的理论解释前提中命名的概念之间的关系，以及逻辑上连贯的经验工作，以评估前提和/或关系。当社会成员能够发展、表达和应用逻辑连贯、经验可靠的关键社会现象解释时，社会就会受益。直接处理这些问题，就像EITM一样，对于越来越多的私营和公共部门实体来说，这是一种将准确性和可靠性提高到新水平的手段，这些实体利用社会科学来提高其效率和效益。EITM的主要目标是培养一代能够帮助国家有效应对最重大挑战并充分利用不断发展的机遇的学者。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。