Workshop: Increasing Reviewer Risk Tolerance Through Awareness

该奖项有助于NSF的土木、机械和制造创新部门实现NSF的使命“促进科学进步”，提高同行评审过程的能力，以识别和适当评估促进发现的提案。 该项目的目标是评估基于严格的社会科学研究的方法，（1）通过解决文化规范，群体动力学和意识培训的有效性，改善偏见并减轻其在评估非传统学者和奖学金方面的影响;（2）为奖励工程研究中的创新做出贡献。 该项目分为两个阶段。 第一阶段（关键概念阶段）将讨论认知偏见，群体事物，文化规范，小组动态和领导力，冲突和冲突解决的动态，学术心理和学术界的同行评价压力如何影响择优评审过程。 第二阶段（体验阶段）将把第一阶段的学习成果应用于模拟小组评审体验。 该研究将确定影响的主要指标，为同行评审过程的未来发展提供信息。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评审标准进行评估来支持。

This award assists the Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation Division at NSF in achieving NSF's mission "to promote the progress of science" by improving the capacity of the peer review process to recognize and appropriately evaluate proposals that advance discovery. The goals of this project are to evaluate methods based on rigorous social science research that (1) ameliorate bias and mitigate its effects in evaluating non-traditional scholars and scholarship by addressing cultural norms, group dynamics, and the efficacy of awareness training; and (2) contribute to a more robust agenda for rewarding innovation in engineering research. The project consists of two phases. Phase One (Key Concepts Phase) will address how cognitive bias, group thing, cultural norms, panel dynamics and leadership, the dynamics of conflict and conflict resolution, and academic psyches and peer evaluation pressures of academia impact merit review processes. Phase Two (Experiential Phase) will apply the Phase One learning outcomes to a mock panel review experience. The study will identify leading indicators of impact to inform future development of the peer review process.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.