Virtual Games for STEMM Faculty to Break the Bias Habit

描述（由申请人提供）：威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的Mary (Molly) Carnes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）劳动力多样性的实践变化。隐性的基于刻板印象的偏见习惯性地——即使是无意地——影响决策，使stem中代表性不足的群体中的个人处于不利地位。作为一名探索者，卡恩斯博士将开发一款互动式的、体验式的、基于案例的电脑游戏，该游戏将教会教职员工识别并自我纠正基于刻板印象的隐性偏见。这种方法是基于在包括医学教育和咨询在内的几个领域中，基于游戏的学习对态度、行为和社会互动的证明影响。研究表明，组织变革取决于组织成员的态度和行为变化——在本例中是STEMM教师。有报告指出，隐性偏见的综合影响可能是少数族裔、残疾人和妇女充分参与和提高stem水平的最大障碍，这些报告支持了开创性影响的潜力。虽然基于游戏的学习与Dr. Carnes过去的研究有明显的不同，但提议的工作分享了她之前的努力的特点：整合多种研究流；涉及多学科的合作者；设计能够迅速转化为实践的理论知情、循证干预措施；并在迭代和解决问题的周期中结合评估和修改。这项研究的创新之处在于，它将决策中基于刻板印象的内隐偏见作为一种可纠正的习惯，将推动制度变革的教师作为目标，并使用基于游戏的学习策略来设计真实的体验，帮助教师打破偏见习惯。凭借Carnes博士过去成功的高影响力研究历史，她非常适合利用探路者奖来实现新的重要突破，以增加stem劳动力的多样性。

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.