Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institutes 2016 - 2019

美国的私营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谨和可操作的方式分析可获得的最佳数据和证据。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从分析中受益，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(理论模型的经验含义)计划旨在帮助年轻学者开发研究设计，以促进关键科学知识的发展，并使这些知识对私营和公共部门更相关和更有用。EITM通过为学者提供机会更好地利用理论建模和经验推理之间可能的交叉来追求这些目标。例如，如今研究定性数据、文本、“大数据”、网络和相关现象的复杂方法正引起学者们的注意。他的注意力增加了理论-经验整合的机会和面临的逆风。EITM的一种新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暑期学院为年轻学者提供了与资深学者合作的机会，这些学者是推动理论和实证研究的领导者。研训所活动的内容与发展和推广最佳做法有关。实质性的重点是已经存在整合理论和方法的可观研究的领域。学院的活动超越了被动地接收授课材料。每个学院都为参与者提供了多种动态机会，以获得来自广泛来源的指导和反馈。每所学院都将严格的课程设置与广泛的一对一指导机会相结合，并与来自全国各地的顶尖教员进行指导。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解决了这样一个事实，即历史上代表性不足的群体中有抱负的成员往往渴望获得EITM经验的好处，但缺乏信心，认为他们的机构已经为他们做好了充分的准备。EITM扩大的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强调通过明确陈述的前提、解释前提中命名的概念之间的关系的逻辑一致的理论以及为评估前提和/或关系而开发的逻辑一致的经验工作的组合来解决重要的实质性和方法论问题。当其成员能够对关键的社会现象进行逻辑上连贯和经验上可靠的解释时，社会就会受益。直接处理此类问题，就像EITM所做的那样，是将越来越多的私营和公共部门实体的准确性和可靠性提高到新的水平的一种手段，这些实体利用社会科学来提高其效力和效率。培养一代能够帮助国家有效应对最重大挑战并最大限度地利用其不断发展的机会的学者是EITM方法的主要目标。

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.