Collaborative Research: Promoting Geoscience Research, Education, Success, and Equity Through Mentoring

合作研究：通过指导促进地球科学研究、教育、成功和公平

• 批准号: 2013333
• 负责人: Paul Hernandez
• 金额: $ 77.91万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 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: 2020-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2013333&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Promoting; Geoscience; Education

This project aims to serve the national interest by improving undergraduate geosciences education. It will do so by scaling up a successful mentoring program in the geosciences. Many of the most urgent challenges facing society are rooted in the geosciences, including issues related to energy, air quality, climate, water availability, food security, and natural disasters. Women, particularly those from minority racial and ethnic groups, continue to be largely underrepresented in the geosciences. As a result, the talent pool available to solve these challenges is limited. Female role models and mentors can play an important role in the lives of female students, especially when choosing and committing to a career path. This project aims to increase diversity in the geoscience workforce by scaling-up a mentoring program called PROGRESS (PROmoting Geoscience Research Education and SuccesS). PROGRESS provides professional development workshops, access to female mentors and role models, peer networks, and online discussions and resources. This award will fund workshops in seven regions of the U.S. with the goal of providing undergraduate women with the tools and skills needed to build successful geoscience careers.The project’s major goal is to scale up PROGRESS to include a larger number of regions, more diverse types of higher-educational institutions, and broadened participation of women from underrepresented and minoritized groups. The project team will build a U.S. network of support that spans at least seven geographic regions and a diversity of academic institutions. The project team will use a longitudinal experimental research design to answer the following research questions: 1) Do the benefits of PROGRESS scale up for multiple underrepresented groups and for women with intersectional identities? 2) Are the benefits of PROGRESS consistent when male mentors are included? 3) Can PROGRESS be effectively scaled-up using a train-the-trainer development and implementation model? The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.

该项目旨在通过改善本科地球科学教育来服务于国家利益。 它将通过扩大一个成功的地球科学指导方案来做到这一点。 社会面临的许多最紧迫的挑战都源于地球科学，包括与能源、空气质量、气候、水资源供应、粮食安全和自然灾害有关的问题。妇女，特别是来自少数种族和族裔群体的妇女，在地球科学领域的代表性仍然很低。因此，可用于解决这些挑战的人才库有限。 女性榜样和导师可以在女学生的生活中发挥重要作用，特别是在选择和致力于职业道路时。该项目旨在通过扩大名为PROGRESS（促进地球科学研究教育和成功）的导师计划来增加地球科学劳动力的多样性。 PROGRESS提供专业发展讲习班、女性导师和榜样、同行网络以及在线讨论和资源。该奖项将资助在美国七个地区举办的讲习班，目的是为本科女生提供成功从事地球科学职业所需的工具和技能。该项目的主要目标是扩大PROGRESS的规模，使其涵盖更多地区、更多样化的高等教育机构，并扩大代表性不足和少数群体妇女的参与。该项目团队将建立一个跨越至少七个地理区域和多种学术机构的美国支持网络。项目团队将使用纵向实验研究设计来回答以下研究问题：1）PROGRESS的好处是否会扩大到多个代表性不足的群体和具有交叉身份的妇女？2)当男性导师参与时，PROGRESS的好处是否一致？3)PROGRESS能否通过培训培训员的开发和实施模式有效地扩大规模？ NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。 通过机构和社区转型的轨道，该计划支持的努力，以改变和改善高等教育机构和学科社区的STEM教育.这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估支持.