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: 2300710
• 负责人: Kendra Cheruvelil
• 金额: $ 113.65万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 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=2300710&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.

高等教育在扩大各级STEM参与度方面一直难以取得有意义的进展。人与环境匹配(PE Fit)研究表明，通过拥有与个人需求、技能和价值观相一致的组织环境，教育和职业结果会得到改善。由于PE Fit在多个组织层面上是理论化的，因此这项研究将在STEM研究小组、部门和学术学科的层面上检验包容性气氛。这项研究将以PE Fit理论为基础，探讨环境的两个新方面：1)作者氛围，在整个STEM研究过程中，智力贡献受到充分欢迎和重视；2)新冠肺炎大流行，给职业生涯早期的STEM学者的个人和职业生活造成了前所未有的干扰。首要目标是增进对职业早期环境和新冠肺炎流行病对STEM职业成果(生产力和态度)和职业道路的纵向影响的了解，特别是对来自边缘群体的学者。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，这些工作导致在新冠肺炎大流行的第一年(时间1)对超过3,500名生物学、经济学、物理学和心理学的研究生、博士后学者和助理教授进行了调查。该项目将支持对学者的纵向跟踪调查(时间2)，以考察学术氛围和新冠肺炎随着时间的推移对职业结局和道路的影响。调查还将辅之以对参与者的不同小样本(n=80)的深入访谈(在时间3)。通过这些访谈，学者们将深入了解学术氛围是如何理解、导航和塑造的，以及多个层面的氛围如何相互作用以及与新冠肺炎的中断相互作用，从而影响职业道路。重要的是，这项研究包括了大量具有多个交叉社会身份的个人，这将允许沿着许多因素进行分解，这将增加从研究中获得的理解。对学术氛围的关注是基于与教师、博士后学者和研究生的职业生涯结果直接相关的文献，包括他们的生产率、承诺、离职意图和满意度。这项研究将有助于加深对STEM教育、研究和工作环境中气候因素的影响的理解，将有助于改善这些环境中的气候。该项目得到了NSF的EHR核心研究(ECR)计划的支持。ECR计划强调基础STEM教育研究，以产生该领域的基础知识。在基本、广泛和持久的关键领域进行投资：STEM学习和STEM学习环境，扩大STEM的参与，以及STEM劳动力发展。该计划支持积累强有力的证据，为理解、构建理论以解释并建议干预和创新以应对教育中持续存在的挑战的努力提供信息。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。