The Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP): Advanced Research Training for Ph.D. Students

本项目为初入职场的社会科学家提供前沿方法培训，并开展研究以评估教学研究方法技术的有效性。pi将100多名人类学家和社会科学家聚集在一起，通过外联、出版、教学和指导来发展和传播方法。一个主要的焦点将是夏季文化人类学方法项目，在这个项目中，来自美国各地的博士生将被招募，在研究设计方面进行密集的方法指导和指导。此外，该项目将创建一个公开的在线学习课程，使易于使用的人类学研究方法广泛普及。这将大大丰富文化人类学和相关领域的全国可用方法培训的可得性和质量。为了促进如何教授文化人类学方法的科学知识，该项目还将作为一个研究平台。项目实施的所有阶段，从规划、教学到学生成功，都将用于生成数据。生成的数据集将包括：会议记录和文本；参与性观察和实地记录；直接观察;学生面试;以及测试前和测试后对学生学习的评估。研究将检验我们的主要教学模式（动手教学、翻转课堂模式、互动讲座、学生主导的演讲、小组和一对一教学）的有效性。此外，我们将比较在线（第1年）和面对面（第2-3年）版本研究生教学的学生成果。研究结果将广泛发表和传播，包括通过一个公开的网站，以确保研究能力扩展到项目参与者之外。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

This project provides cutting-edge methods training to early-career social scientists and conducts research to evaluate the effectiveness of techniques for teaching research methods. The PIs bring together a community of over 100 anthropologists and social scientists to develop and disseminate methods through outreach, publication, teaching, and mentorship. A major focus will be summer Cultural Anthropology Methods Program, in which diverse Ph.D. students from across the U.S. will be recruited for intensive methods instruction and mentorship in research design. In addition, the project will create a publicly available online learning course that makes easy-to-use anthropological research methods widely accessible. This will substantially enrich the availability and quality of nationally available methods training in cultural anthropology and allied fields.To advance scientific knowledge of how to teach methods in cultural anthropology, this project will also serve as a research platform. All stages of project implementation, from planning, to teaching, to student success, will be used to generate data. Datasets generated will include: meeting recordings and transcripts; participant-observation and field notes; direct observations; student interviews; and pre-test/post-test assessments of student learning. Research will examine the efficacy of our main teaching modalities (hands-on instruction, flipped classroom models, interactive lectures, student-led presentations, small groups, and one-on-one instruction). In addition, we will compare student outcomes in online (Year 1) and in-person (Year 2-3) versions of graduate student instruction. Results will be published and disseminated widely, including via a publicly available website, to ensure that research capacity extends beyond Program participants.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.