NSF2026: EAGER: Understanding Team Science to Help Reinvent Scientific Talent: Exploring the Knowledge, Skill, and Attitude Competencies Associated with Interdisciplinary Team Eff

这个项目探索美国国家科学基金会创意机器奖的获奖作品之一：“重塑科学人才”。虽然已经有很多关于融合研究中存在的跨学科挑战的文章，但仍然需要彻底理解与科学团队合作相关的知识、技能和态度能力。该项目的目标是更好地理解团队科学能力，促进科学的有效融合。(团队科学是一种合作努力，旨在利用在不同领域接受培训的专业人员的优势和专业知识来应对科学挑战。)该项目将通过一系列综合活动来解决这些差距，这些活动对学者和从业人员进行调查，以检查不同学科和不同经验层次在这些认知上的异同。与之相辅相成的是深入的研讨会，利益攸关方在会上提供他们的见解，以便获得更丰富的理解。由此，可以建立一个更全面的科学团队能力框架，以指导如何重塑科学人才，并为团队科学的研究提出未来的方向。这项研究的成果将通过教科学家如何更好地从事“互惠学习”，即如何利用他们的专业知识和分享他们的知识，为成功的趋同研究奠定更坚实的基础，从而帮助扩展国家的科学能力。这个项目的核心是了解跨学科团队的科学能力与经验水平和学科专业知识类型的关系。尽管研究开始研究其中的一些问题，但还没有研究同时检查团队科学能力认知、它们如何有助于团队效率，以及科学家在参与合作时如何学习之间的关系。该项目将研究跨学科的研究人员集群，每个研究人员都致力于自己形式的汇聚科学。它将探索对团队科学能力的看法，如何最好地获得这些能力，以及如何创建能够支持团队合作技能发展的学习文化，这些技能是跨问题领域趋同和概括的基础。通过与这些分组一起举办的讲习班，以及对与团队科学项目有关的学者和实践者的调查，该项目将制定研究结果和一个框架，说明融合能力的不同性质，以及这些能力与参与科学合作时的学习有何关系。该项目的互补性研究任务将为确定与团队科学有效性相关的能力以及这些能力如何在参与科学合作的同时促进互惠学习提供基础。该项目将发布一份报告，通过同行评议的出版物、在专业会议上的陈述和额外的外展活动来展示研究结果和研究建议。该项目由学习研究部门的推进非正式STEM学习计划(AISL)和NSF 2026基金计划支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project explores one of the NSF Idea Machine Winning Entries: "Reinventing Scientific Talent." While much has been written about the challenges of the kind of interdisciplinarity present in convergence research, a thorough understanding of the knowledge, skill, and attitude competencies associated with scientific teamwork is still needed. The goal of the project is to develop a better understanding of team science competencies contributing to effective convergence science. (Team science is a collaborative effort to address a scientific challenge that leverages the strengths and expertise of professionals trained in different fields.) The project will address these gaps through an integrated set of activities that survey scholars and practitioners to examine similarities and differences in these perceptions across disciplines and experience levels. Complementing these are in-depth workshops where stakeholders provide their insights so that a richer understanding is gained. From this, a more comprehensive framework of science team competencies can be developed to inform how to reinvent scientific talent and to suggest future directions for the research of team science. Outcomes from this research will help extend the nation’s scientific capabilities by teaching scientists how to better engage in “reciprocal learning”, that is, how to leverage their expertise and share their knowledge to nurture a stronger foundation for successful convergence research. This project centers on understanding interdisciplinary team science competencies in relation to levels of experience and types of disciplinary expertise. Although research is beginning to examine some of these issues, no studies have simultaneously examined the relation between perceptions of team science competencies, how they contribute to team effectiveness, and how scientists learn while engaged in collaborations. The project will examine interdisciplinary clusters of researchers, each addressing their own form of convergence science. It will explore perceptions of team science competencies, how they are best acquired, and how to create learning cultures capable of supporting the development of the teamwork skills foundational to convergence and generalizable across problem domains. Through workshops held with these clusters, and surveys of scholars and practitioners affiliated with team science projects, the project will develop research findings and a framework representing the varied nature of convergence competencies and how these relate to learning while engaged in scientific collaborations. The project’s complementary research tasks will provide the foundation for identifying the competencies associated with team science effectiveness, and how these contribute to reciprocal learning while engaged in scientific collaborations. The project will disseminate a report presenting findings and research recommendations through peer-reviewed publications, presentations at professional conferences, and additional outreach.This project is supported by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning Program (AISL) in the Division of Research on Learning and the NSF 2026 Fund Program.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.