CAREER: GIVEN-Gaming Intervention of Values Engineers Need

工程领域在实现多样性目标方面取得了边际成功，无论投入多少金钱、研究和时间。GIVEN项目将创建一种新的有效方法来培训工程教师关于STEM的多样性。GIVEN项目的一个重要成果是提高教师的参与度，并扩大多样性，公平性和包容性（DEI）的努力，超越了服务不足和边缘化群体的教师。工程学院，尽管意识到多样性问题，一般缺乏知识，并有有限的资源进行干预或改变与DEI的努力。GIVEN项目是一个基础，为工程学院提供所需的资源，以有意义地参与DEI概念，并可能彻底改变DEI培训和工程学院的专业发展。这个项目将通过在线平台或游戏工具来衡量工程学院对DEI的信念。游戏工具将跟踪工程学院对多样性的信念的演变，研究团队将通过调查和个人访谈评估游戏工具的影响。该项目将鼓励工程系教师通过反思自己的角色参与校园多样性工作，并提供信息资源，以制定个性化的战略，为当地的DEI工作做出贡献。GIVEN项目将创建一个工具来评估负责教育下一代工程专业人员的工程教师的信念。该项目通过开发创新方法和项目与NSF扩大参与资助计划保持一致，以显著影响工程教师的招聘和保留。该项目还将促进工程文化的转变，以优先考虑多样性，公平性和包容性。这个混合方法的多案例研究旨在了解工程教师对DEI的信念，并制定一个游戏干预，以促进他们与DEI的努力。本研究以基本价值理论为框架，回答以下研究问题：RQ 1。什么信念和价值观做工程教师持有关于多样性，公平和包容性？RQ 2.教师对DEI的价值观和信念如何影响他们将DEI融入专业活动的方法？RQ 3.游戏干预如何影响工程学院的价值观和对DEI的信念？该提案将启动关于工程学院在促进多样性和包容性方面的作用的全国对话。具体来说，该项目将开发一个在线游戏工具，可以提供异步访问为工程学院量身定制的DEI培训工具。研究和教学的协同活动将提供一种媒介，将DEI概念引入工程文化，课程和课堂。这项研究的结果将增加工程教师参与DEI的努力。通过他们的游戏和实践社区（COP）的互动，参与者将制定一个量身定制的个性化的理解需要什么来实现DEI的概念到他们的教师活动。最后，研究结果将更新我们对扩大参与的战略方法的理解，以及教师如何有效地教授不同的学生。该研究将为改善多样性和包容性举措提供一个范例，各种机构类型都可以效仿。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。

The field of engineering has realized marginal success in achieving diversity goals regardless of investments of money, research, and time. The GIVEN project will create a new efficient approach to training engineering faculty about diversity in STEM. An important outcome for the GIVEN project is to increase faculty engagement and expand diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts beyond faculty from underserved and marginalized groups. Engineering faculty, despite being aware of diversity issues, generally lack knowledge and have limited resources to intervene or make change to engage with DEI efforts. The GIVEN project is a foundation to provide engineering faculty with the needed resources to meaningfully engage with DEI concepts and could revolutionize DEI training and engineering faculty professional development. This project will measure engineering faculty beliefs about DEI with an online platform or gaming tool. The gaming tool will track the evolution of engineering faculty beliefs about diversity and the research team will assess the impact of the gaming tool with both surveys and individual interviews. This project will encourage engineering faculty to engage with campus diversity efforts through reflection of their role and provide information resources to develop personalized strategies to contribute to local DEI efforts. The GIVEN project will create a tool to evaluate the beliefs of engineering faculty who are charged with educating the next generation of engineering professionals. The project aligns with NSF Broadening participation funding program by developing an innovative method and project to significantly impact the recruitment and retention of engineering faculty. The project will also catalyze the transformation of the engineering culture to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion.This mixed-methods multi-case study seeks to understand engineering faculty beliefs about DEI and develop a gaming intervention to catalyze their engagement with DEI efforts. The study is framed by basic values theory to answer the following research questions:RQ1. What beliefs and values do engineering faculty hold about diversity, equity, and inclusion? RQ2. How do faculty values and beliefs about DEI impact their approach to integrate DEI into their professional activities?RQ3. How does the gaming intervention impact engineering faculty values and beliefs about DEI?This proposal will initiate a national conversation about the role of engineering faculty in promoting diversity and inclusion. Specifically, the project will develop an online gaming tool that can provide asynchronous access to a DEI training instrument tailored for engineering faculty. The synergistic activities of research and teaching will provide a medium to introduce the DEI concepts into the engineering culture, curriculum, and classroom. The results of the study will increase the engineering faculty engagement with DEI efforts. Through their gaming and communities of practice (COP) interactions participants will develop a tailored individualized understanding of what it takes to implement DEI concepts into their faculty activities. Finally, the results of the study will update our understanding of strategic approaches for broadening participation and how faculty can effectively teach diverse students in STEM. The study will provide an exemplar for improving diversity and inclusion initiatives that various institution types can model.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.