Collaborative Research: The Effects of Information, Mentoring and Time on Economic Faculty at MSIs

合作研究：信息、指导和时间对 MSI 经济教师的影响

• 批准号: 2127199
• 负责人: Angelino Viceisza
• 金额: $ 63.25万
• 依托单位: Spelman College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2127199&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Effects; Information; Mentoring

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). Faculty at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) make considerable contributions to educating and training science leaders. Yet, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has received few proposals from MSI faculty over time. This project will implement an intervention that will support MSI faculty in two ways. First, MSI faculty will be granted time to write and submit proposals to the NSF. Second, faculty will be mentored through the proposal preparation process. The project will evaluate the impacts of the intervention by collecting and analyzing data from mentees, i.e., MSI faculty participants. The intervention is expected to increase NSF proposal submissions by MSI faculty, improve their proposal preparation skills, and in the long run, contribute to greater inclusion of faculty at MSIs in STEM. Undergraduate students at will support the research process by assisting with data collection and analysis. Prior initiatives suggest that a proposal mentoring intervention such is likely to change behavior through several channels, e.g., information awareness and feedback, role models and networks, cognitive load theory, and metacognitive awareness. Underlying these different theories of change, is a factor that seems to have been taken for granted: faculty’s time availability. This research will directly tackle time constraints by offering MSI faculty mentees a course release to write proposals and address other constraints through intensive mentoring, workshops, and debriefing. Findings will be derived from a mixed-methods approach that combines quantitative and qualitative data analyses (i.e., surveys and focus groups). Impacts will be assessed by comparing different outcomes, in particular proposal submissions to NSF, before and after participating in the intervention across a treatment group of mentees and a control group of those who applied but were not admitted. Findings will be disseminated at academic conferences, meetings with federal agencies such as NSF, and by means of a final report to be posted on the National Bureau of Economic Research.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.

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。少数民族服务机构（MSIs）的教师为教育和培训科学领导人做出了巨大贡献。 然而，随着时间的推移，美国国家科学基金会（NSF）很少收到MSI教师的建议。 该项目将实施一项干预措施，以两种方式支持MSI教师。 首先，MSI教师将有时间编写并向NSF提交提案。 第二，教师将通过提案准备过程得到指导。 该项目将通过收集和分析学员的数据，评估干预措施的影响，即，MSI教师参与者 预计干预措施将增加MSI教师提交的NSF提案，提高他们的提案准备技能，并从长远来看，有助于更多地将MSIs的教师纳入STEM。 本科生将通过协助数据收集和分析来支持研究过程。 先前的倡议表明，建议指导干预可能会通过几个渠道改变行为，例如，信息意识和反馈，角色模型和网络，认知负荷理论，元认知意识。 在这些不同的变革理论之下，有一个因素似乎被认为是理所当然的：教师的时间可用性。 这项研究将通过为MSI教师学员提供课程发布来直接解决时间限制，以通过密集的指导，研讨会和汇报来编写提案和解决其他限制。 调查结果将来自一个混合方法的方法，结合定量和定性数据分析（即，调查和焦点小组）。 将通过比较不同的结果来评估影响，特别是在参与干预之前和之后向NSF提交的提案，包括一个治疗组的学员和一个对照组的申请但未被录取的人。 研究结果将在学术会议、与联邦机构（如NSF）的会议上传播，并通过最终报告发布在国家经济研究局。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。