TRIAGE: Techniques for Resolving Intragroup Conflict to Advance Graduate Education

TRIAGE：解决群体内冲突以推进研究生教育的技术

• 批准号: 2325521
• 负责人: Allison Traylor
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2325521&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TRIAGE; Techniques; Resolving; Intragroup; Conflict

This National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) award to Clemson University will test the effectiveness of novel approaches to educate a new generation of conflict-embracing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) graduate students. As the challenges tackled by STEM professionals are increasingly complex and require wide ranging expertise, organizations often look to teams to generate creative, innovative solutions. Accordingly, graduate students entering today’s STEM workforce are expected to work on interdisciplinary, cross-functional, and demographically diverse teams. Although such teams have tremendous potential for innovation and creativity, diverse teams are at an increased risk of team conflict. Existing tools for building teamwork skills do not adequately address conflict management skills and rarely focus on the graduate student population. This award is focused on developing and testing new approaches to prepare graduate students as effective teammates by building conflict management skills to facilitate effective teamwork when they enter the workforce.Drawing from proven science on conflict management, this project focuses on developing a set of tools aimed at helping graduate students develop conflict management skills, assess conflict in their teams, and identify interventions to help their teams navigate conflict. Following their development, these tools will be piloted and evaluated amongst Clemson University STEM graduate students using an experimental approach. Once validated in the graduate population, the tools will be expanded to Clemson University undergraduate and graduate students across fields as well as students at Greenville Technical College. Students will begin with a day-long training program focused on constructive controversy, an approach aimed at improving teams’ ability to generate constructive, task-focused conflict. Following the training program, graduate students will participate in a novel dashboard-based approach to managing conflict in their research teams. Using data generated from surveys of graduate students’ research teams, dashboards will provide students with information about their team’s conflict and other teamwork processes alongside targeted interventions to implement within their teams. Once validated amongst STEM graduate students and expanded to undergraduate students at Clemson and technical college students at Greenville Technical College, the project will conclude with the creation of a set of transportable team conflict tools, including training materials and the dashboard’s interventions, which will be made accessible to the public online.The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is focused on research in graduate education. The goals of IGE are to pilot, test and validate innovative approaches to graduate education and to generate the knowledge required to move these approaches into the broader community.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.

这个国家科学基金会研究生教育创新（IGE）奖给克莱姆森大学将测试新方法的有效性，以教育新一代的冲突拥抱科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）研究生。随着STEM专业人士所面临的挑战越来越复杂，需要广泛的专业知识，组织往往希望团队能够产生创造性的创新解决方案。因此，进入今天的STEM劳动力的研究生预计将在跨学科，跨职能和人口统计学上多样化的团队中工作。虽然这样的团队有巨大的创新和创造力的潜力，不同的团队是在团队冲突的风险增加。现有的建立团队合作技能的工具没有充分解决冲突管理技能，很少关注研究生群体。该奖项的重点是开发和测试新的方法，通过建立冲突管理技能，以促进有效的团队合作，当他们进入劳动力市场，培养研究生作为有效的队友。从冲突管理的成熟科学借鉴，该项目侧重于开发一套工具，旨在帮助研究生发展冲突管理技能，评估他们的团队冲突，并确定干预措施，以帮助他们的团队解决冲突。在开发之后，这些工具将在克莱姆森大学STEM研究生中使用实验方法进行试点和评估。一旦在研究生群体中得到验证，这些工具将扩展到克莱姆森大学各领域的本科生和研究生以及格林维尔技术学院的学生。学生们将开始为期一天的培训计划，重点是建设性的争议，一种旨在提高团队的能力，产生建设性的，以任务为中心的冲突。在培训计划之后，研究生将参与一种新颖的基于仪表板的方法来管理他们研究团队中的冲突。使用从研究生研究团队的调查生成的数据，仪表板将为学生提供有关他们的团队的冲突和其他团队合作过程的信息，以及有针对性的干预措施，以在他们的团队中实施。一旦在STEM研究生中得到验证，并扩展到克莱姆森的本科生和格林维尔技术学院的技术学院学生，该项目将最终创建一套可移动的团队冲突工具，包括培训材料和仪表板的干预措施，这些工具将在线提供给公众。研究生教育创新（IGE）计划专注于研究生教育的研究。IGE的目标是试验、测试和验证研究生教育的创新方法，并产生将这些方法推广到更广泛的社区所需的知识。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。