NRT-IGE: Workplace Inspired Approaches for Improving Graduate Student Professionalism

NRT-IGE：提高研究生专业素养的工作场所启发方法塔尔萨大学研究生教育创新（IGE）轨道上的国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖将测试提高工程研究生专业素养和生产力的创新方法的有效性。目前的研究生院能使学生以令人钦佩的效率获得具体的技术技能。然而，为了做好成为专业人士的准备，研究生还需要培养非技术技能，如领导能力、冲突管理能力和适应能力。这个试点项目将开发一个新的专业发展系统，为研究生提供一个实践这些非技术技能的心理框架，并使用在线工具来促进和跟踪专业发展。这个试验台项目的主要目标将是开发和评估一个新的程序，使非技术技能的有意实践成为可能。有意识的练习是一个有意识的过程，在这个过程中，一项技能被分解成几个部分，重点放在提高某个特定部分上，通常会得到教练的即时反馈。这项研究将回答三个核心问题：成功的研究生所必需的核心专业能力是什么？在工作环境中开发和验证的方法能否适用于提高研究生的专业精神？专业水平的提高是否能提高研究生的生产力、留用率和成功度？这些问题将通过一套在线评估跟踪工具来回答，这些工具将收集学生的自我评估以及同伴和顾问的评估。学生将被指导如何对专业发展机会做出有意识的决定，以及如何培养有意识地实践这些专业技能的能力。定性评估将与学生表现的客观衡量相结合，例如生产力和毕业率，以确定能力发展方法是否成功。NSF研究培训（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、新的、具有潜在变革性和可扩展的STEM研究生教育培训模式。研究生教育创新轨道专门用于试点，测试和评估新颖，创新和潜在的变革性研究生教育方法。

NRT-IGE: Workplace Inspired Approaches for Improving Graduate StudentProfessionalismThis National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track to the University of Tulsa will test the effectiveness of an innovative approach to enhance the professionalism and productivity of engineering graduate students. Graduate school, as it currently exists, enables students to acquire concrete technical skills with admirable efficiency. To complete their preparation as professionals, however, graduate students also need to develop non-technical skills, such as leadership, conflict management, and adaptability. This pilot project will develop a novel professional development system that provides graduate students a mental framework to practice these non-technical skills and uses an online tool to facilitate and track professional development. The primary goal of this test-bed project will be to develop and assess a novel program that enables the intentional practice of non-technical skills. Intentional practice is a deliberate process where a skill is broken down into parts and there is focus on improving a particular part, frequently with immediate feedback from a coach. This research will answer three central questions: What are the core professional competencies that are essential for successful graduate students? Can approaches developed and validated in workplace settings be adapted to improve graduate student professionalism? Does increased professionalism improve graduate student productivity, retention, and success? These questions will be answered through a set of online assessment tracking tools that will capture student self-assessments and peer and advisor assessments. Students will be mentored on how to make intentional decisions about professional development opportunities and how to develop the ability to be intentional about practicing these professional skills. Qualitative assessments will be coupled to objective measures of student performance, such as productivity and graduation rate, to determine if the competency development approach is successful. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative, and scalable models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.