An Investigator Development Plan for Building Capacity to Explore Diverse Microcultures in Graduate Engineering Research Laboratories

研究生工程研究实验室探索多种微培养物能力建设的研究者发展计划

• 批准号: 1937738
• 负责人: Cheryl Gomillion
• 金额: $ 34.21万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1937738&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Investigator; Development; Plan; Building; Capacity

The proposal focuses on fundamental STEM education research that examines broadening participation and STEM workforce training in engineering graduate programs. The research will contribute to expanding the current understanding of the characteristics and functioning of STEM research labs (microcultures) that may impact the success of underrepresented graduate students. The Principal Investigator has designed a professional development plan that will support individual capacity building in the field of engineering education research. To achieve the goal of understanding the best practices in supporting students from underrepresented groups, the investigator's professional plan focuses on increasing her experience with ethnographic research methodology and training in qualitative research. The professional development plan includes a mentoring team of advisors and consultants and activities that will provide preparation in qualitative research methods. The outcome of the professional development plan will be to increase the investigator's capacity to complete the proposed research project and build expertise to contribute to the engineering education research knowledge base.The research will apply ethnographic or autoethnographic methods to collect evidence of graduate student experiences in high impact research labs and to examine the factors that contribute to the formation of a cohesive research team and supportive environment. The study will investigate the features, behavior and best practices connected with the experiences of graduate students who are members of diverse STEM research labs. A conceptual framework focused on investigating communities of practice and socialization, using ethnographic methods, will be applied to conduct research on graduate student experiences in research labs. The expected impact includes informing best practices that can provide diverse and inclusive settings for underrepresented students. The long-term trajectory of the research is to expand the understanding of micro-cultures in graduate education to support the goal of broadening participation in the STEM workforce. An expected outcome of this project includes building capacity of the individual PI to pursue fundamental STEM education research projects that can advance current knowledge about broadening participating and STEM workforce development.The project is supported through the EHR Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER) competition that is designed to build individuals' capacity to carry out high quality fundamental STEM education research in STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM fields, and STEM workforce development.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.

该提案侧重于基础STEM教育研究，研究扩大工程研究生课程的参与和STEM劳动力培训。 这项研究将有助于扩大目前对STEM研究实验室（微文化）的特征和功能的理解，这可能会影响代表性不足的研究生的成功。 首席研究员设计了一个专业发展计划，将支持工程教育研究领域的个人能力建设。 为了实现了解支持来自代表性不足群体的学生的最佳做法的目标，调查员的专业计划侧重于增加她的民族志研究方法和定性研究培训的经验。 专业发展计划包括一个由顾问和咨询师组成的指导小组，以及将为定性研究方法做准备的活动。 专业发展计划的结果将提高研究人员完成拟议研究项目的能力，并建立专业知识，为工程教育研究知识库做出贡献。研究将采用人种学或autoethnographic方法收集研究生在高影响力研究实验室的经验证据，并检查有助于形成有凝聚力的研究团队和支持的因素。环境该研究将调查与研究生谁是不同的STEM研究实验室的成员的经验连接的功能，行为和最佳实践。一个概念框架，侧重于调查社区的做法和社会化，使用人种学方法，将适用于研究生在研究实验室的经验进行研究。预期的影响包括提供最佳做法，为代表性不足的学生提供多样化和包容性的环境。 研究的长期轨迹是扩大对研究生教育中微观文化的理解，以支持扩大STEM劳动力参与的目标。该项目的一个预期成果包括建设个人PI的能力，以开展基础STEM教育研究项目，这些项目可以促进关于扩大参与和STEM劳动力发展的现有知识。（ECR：BCSER）竞赛，旨在培养个人在STEM学习和学习环境中开展高质量基础STEM教育研究的能力，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。