Analyzing the Peer Review Process at NSF

跨学科（99）在这个项目中，学生实习生正在开发一个过程，用于表征和评估个人评论的质量，并根据特定的期望特征为小组选择合适的评论员。一个由伍斯特理工学院（WPI）的三名本科生组成的团队将在秋季学期在NSF全职实习。 WPI的固定教职员工与学生一起居住在华盛顿，他们通过咨询NSF人员来指导他们的工作，NSF人员可以访问学生需要的数据和其他资源。 建议的项目结果的智力价值，因为它将使计划官员能够更有效地选择适当的评审员，从而改善NSF的同行评审过程。反过来，这将导致更高的质量，更一致的审查，从而更有效地利用国家科学基金会的资金和更大的潜力，资助工作的结果在学生学习的真实的改善。 产生更广泛的影响，因为该项目将帮助项目官员建立更多样化的小组。 此外，通过改善STEM教育状况，改善教学和学习的研究最终会使社会受益。 最后，作为年轻的科学家和工程师，参加该项目的学生直接受到影响，拓宽了他们的教育视野。

Interdisciplinary (99)In this project, student interns are developing a process for characterizing and evaluating the quality of individual reviews and for selecting appropriate reviewers for panels based on specific desired characteristics. A team of three undergraduate students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will work at the NSF full time during the fall semester in an internship program. Regular WPI faculty members, who are resident in Washington with the students, are guiding their work with consultation from NSF personnel who have access to data and other resources that the students need. Intellectual merit of the proposed project results because it will enable program officers to select appropriate reviewers more effectively thereby improving the peer review process at NSF. This, in turn, will lead to higher quality, more consistent reviews and thus to a more productive use of NSF funds and a greater potential that funded work results in real improvements in student learning. Broader impacts result because the project will help project officers to create more diverse panels. Also the research that improves teaching and learning ultimately benefits society by improving the state of STEM education. Finally, as young scientists and engineers, the students who participate in this project are affected directly in a way that broadens their educational horizons.