Collaborative Research: Broadening participation of marginalized scholars in STEM: The longitudinal influence of early-career climate experiences on professional pathways

合作研究：扩大边缘化学者对 STEM 的参与：早期职业气候经历对职业道路的纵向影响

• 批准号: 2300709
• 负责人: Isis Settles
• 金额: $ 136.35万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2028-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2300709&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Broadening; participation; marginalized

Higher education has struggled to make meaningful progress in broadening the participation in STEM at all levels. Person-Environment Fit (PE Fit) research reveals that education and career outcomes are improved by having an organizational environment that is congruent with one’s needs, skills, and values. Because PE Fit is theorized at multiple organizational levels, this study will examine inclusive climate at the levels of the STEM research group, department, and academic discipline. This study will build upon the PE Fit theory by addressing two novel aspects of environment: 1) authorship climate, in which intellectual contributions are fully welcomed and valued throughout the STEM research process, and 2) the COVID-19 pandemic, which created unprecedented disruptions in the personal and professional lives of early-career STEM scholars. The overarching goal is to increase understanding about the longitudinal effects of early-career climates and the COVID-19 pandemic on STEM career outcomes (productivity and attitudes) and professional pathways, especially for scholars from marginalized groups. This proposed research is a mixed-methods study building on prior work that resulted in a survey of over 3500 graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and assistant professors in biology, economics, physics, and psychology in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic (time 1). This project will support a longitudinal follow-up survey (time 2) of the scholars to examine the effect of academic climates and COVID-19 on career outcomes and pathways over time. The survey will be complemented with in-depth interviews (at time 3) with a diverse subsample (n = 80) of the participants. These interviews will provide insight into how scholars make sense of, navigate, and shape academic climates, and how multiple levels of climate interact with each other and with COVID-19 disruptions, to affect professional pathways. Importantly, this study includes a large number of individuals with multiple intersecting social identities which will allow for disaggregation along many factors which will increase understanding from the research. The focus on academic climates is based on the literature that directly links to faculty, postdoctoral scholar, and graduate student career outcomes including their productivity, commitment, turnover intentions, and satisfaction. This study will help increase understanding of the impact of climate factors in STEM education, research, and workplace environments will contribute to improving the climate of these settings for all.This project is supported by NSF's EHR Core Research (ECR) program. The ECR program emphasizes fundamental STEM education research that generates foundational knowledge in the field. Investments are made in critical areas that are essential, broad and enduring: STEM learning and STEM learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development. The program supports the accumulation of robust evidence to inform efforts to understand, build theory to explain, and suggest intervention and innovations to address persistent challenges in education.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.

高等教育一直在努力在扩大各级STEM参与方面取得有意义的进展。个人与环境匹配（PE Fit）研究表明，教育和职业成果通过与个人需求，技能和价值观相一致的组织环境得到改善。由于PE适合在多个组织层面的理论，本研究将探讨在STEM研究小组，部门和学科的水平包容性的气候。这项研究将建立在PE匹配理论的基础上，解决环境的两个新方面：1）作者气候，在整个STEM研究过程中，知识贡献受到充分欢迎和重视，2）COVID-19大流行病，这对早期职业生涯STEM学者的个人和职业生活造成了前所未有的破坏。总体目标是增加对早期职业气候和COVID-19大流行对STEM职业成果（生产力和态度）和专业途径的纵向影响的理解，特别是对于边缘化群体的学者。这项拟议的研究是一项混合方法研究，建立在先前工作的基础上，在COVID-19大流行的第一年（时间1）对3500多名研究生，博士后学者和生物学，经济学，物理学和心理学助理教授进行了调查。该项目将支持对学者进行纵向跟踪调查（时间2），以研究学术气候和COVID-19对职业成果和途径的影响。该调查将辅以深入访谈（在时间3）与不同的子样本（n = 80）的参与者。这些访谈将深入了解学者如何理解，导航和塑造学术气候，以及多层次的气候如何相互作用，并与COVID-19中断，以影响专业途径。重要的是，这项研究包括了大量具有多重交叉社会身份的个体，这将允许沿着许多因素的分解，这将增加对研究的理解。对学术氛围的关注是基于与教师，博士后学者和研究生职业成果直接相关的文献，包括他们的生产力，承诺，离职意向和满意度。这项研究将有助于增加对气候因素在STEM教育，研究和工作环境中的影响的理解，将有助于改善这些环境的气候。该项目由NSF的EHR核心研究（ECR）计划支持。ECR计划强调基础STEM教育研究，产生该领域的基础知识。投资是在关键领域是必不可少的，广泛的和持久的：干学习和干学习环境，扩大参与干，干劳动力发展。该计划支持积累强有力的证据，为理解、建立理论解释、提出干预和创新建议以应对教育中持续存在的挑战提供信息。该奖项反映了NSF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。