Virtual Games for STEMM Faculty to Break the Bias Habit

STEMM 教师打破偏见习惯的虚拟游戏

• 批准号: 8070198
• 负责人: MOLLY L. CARNES
• 金额: $ 199.98万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-30 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8070198
• 关键词: Attitude; Award; Behavior; Behavioral; Computers; Counseling; Decision Making; Disabled Persons; Disadvantaged; Economics; Educational process of instructing; Engineering; Evaluation; Evidence based intervention; Faculty; Future; Habits; Individual; Learning; Mathematics; Medical Education; Medicine; Minority Groups; Modification; Mollies; Organizational Change; Plague; Population; Problem Solving; Recording of previous events; Reporting; Research; Science; Social Interaction; Stereotyping; Stream; Students; Technology; Translating; Universities; Wisconsin; Woman; Work; base; case-based; design; experience; health disparity; innovation; knowledge base; member; public health relevance; virtual

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Dr. Mary (Molly) Carnes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is an ideal candidate for the Pathfinder Award. Her innovative research has already led to changes in practices that promote workforce diversity in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM). Implicit stereotype-based biases habitually - even if unintentionally - influence decision-making in ways that disadvantage individuals from groups underrepresented in STEMM. As a Pathfinder, Dr. Carnes will develop an interactive, experiential, case-based computer game that will teach faculty to recognize and self-correct implicit stereotype-based biases. This approach is based on the proven impact of game-based learning on attitudes, behaviors, and social interactions in several fields including medical education and counseling. This approach is also informed by research showing that organizational change depends on attitudinal and behavioral changes in members of the organization - in this case STEMM faculty. The potential for groundbreaking impact is supported by reports stating that the aggregate impact of implicit biases may constitute the greatest impediment to the full participation and advancement in STEMM of ethnic and racial minorities, people with disabilities, and women. While game-based learning is a clear departure from Dr. Carnes's past research, the proposed work shares the hallmarks of her previous endeavors: integrating multiple streams of research; involving multi- disciplinary collaborators; designing theoretically-informed, evidence-based interventions that can be rapidly translated into practice; and incorporating evaluation and modification in iterative, problem-solving cycles. The proposed research is highly innovative in that it approaches implicit stereotype-based bias in decision-making as a remediable habit, targets faculty who are the drivers of institutional change, and uses game-based learning strategies to design authentic experiences that can help faculty break the bias habit. With Dr. Carnes's past history of successful, high-impact research, she is ideally suited to utilize the Pathfinder Award to achieve new and important breakthroughs to increase STEMM workforce diversity.

描述(由申请人提供)：威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的玛丽·卡恩斯博士是探路者奖的理想候选人。她的创新研究已经导致了促进科学、技术、工程、数学和医学(STEMM)劳动力多元化的实践的变化。基于刻板印象的隐性偏见习惯性地--即使是无意的--以某种方式影响决策，使在STEMM中代表性不足的群体的个人处于不利地位。作为一名探路者，卡恩斯博士将开发一款互动的、体验式的、基于案例的电脑游戏，教会教员识别和自我纠正隐含的基于刻板印象的偏见。这种方法是基于基于游戏的学习对包括医学教育和咨询在内的几个领域的态度、行为和社会互动的已被证明的影响。这一方法也得到了研究的启发，研究表明，组织的变化取决于组织成员--在这种情况下是STEMM教员--的态度和行为变化。报告指出，隐性偏见的综合影响可能成为少数族裔和种族、残疾人和妇女充分参与和推动STEMM的最大障碍，这支持了可能产生的开创性影响。虽然基于游戏的学习与卡恩斯博士过去的研究明显不同，但这项拟议的工作与她之前的努力有相同的特点：整合多个研究流；涉及多学科合作者；设计可以迅速转化为实践的、基于理论的、基于证据的干预措施；将评估和修改纳入迭代的问题解决周期。这项拟议的研究具有很高的创新性，因为它将决策过程中基于内隐刻板印象的偏见视为一种可补救的习惯，以推动制度变革的教师为目标，并使用基于游戏的学习策略来设计真实的体验，以帮助教师打破这种偏见习惯。凭借卡恩斯博士过去成功、高影响力的研究历史，她非常适合利用探路者奖实现新的重要突破，以增加STEMM劳动力的多样性。