The Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP): Advanced Research Training for Ph.D. Students

该项目为早期职业社会科学家提供尖端方法培训，并进行研究以评估教学研究方法的技术有效性。PI汇集了100多名人类学家和社会科学家的社区，通过推广，出版，教学和指导来开发和传播方法。一个主要的重点将是夏季文化人类学方法计划，其中不同的博士。来自美国各地的学生将被招募进行研究设计的强化方法指导和指导。此外，该项目将创建一个公开的在线学习课程，使人们能够广泛使用易于使用的人类学研究方法。这将大大丰富文化人类学和相关领域的国家现有方法培训的可获得性和质量，为了提高关于如何教授文化人类学方法的科学知识，该项目还将作为一个研究平台。项目实施的所有阶段，从规划到教学，再到学生的成功，都将用于生成数据。生成的数据集将包括：会议录音和笔录;参与者观察和现场笔记;直接观察;学生访谈;以及学生学习的测试前/测试后评估。研究将检查我们的主要教学模式（动手教学，翻转课堂模式，互动讲座，学生主导的演示，小组和一对一的指令）的有效性。此外，我们将比较在线（1年级）和面对面（2-3年级）版本的研究生教学的学生成果。研究结果将被广泛公布和传播，包括通过一个公开的网站，以确保研究能力延伸到计划参与者之外。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project provides cutting-edge methods training to early-career social scientists and conducts research to evaluate the effectiveness of techniques for teaching research methods. The PIs bring together a community of over 100 anthropologists and social scientists to develop and disseminate methods through outreach, publication, teaching, and mentorship. A major focus will be summer Cultural Anthropology Methods Program, in which diverse Ph.D. students from across the U.S. will be recruited for intensive methods instruction and mentorship in research design. In addition, the project will create a publicly available online learning course that makes easy-to-use anthropological research methods widely accessible. This will substantially enrich the availability and quality of nationally available methods training in cultural anthropology and allied fields.To advance scientific knowledge of how to teach methods in cultural anthropology, this project will also serve as a research platform. All stages of project implementation, from planning, to teaching, to student success, will be used to generate data. Datasets generated will include: meeting recordings and transcripts; participant-observation and field notes; direct observations; student interviews; and pre-test/post-test assessments of student learning. Research will examine the efficacy of our main teaching modalities (hands-on instruction, flipped classroom models, interactive lectures, student-led presentations, small groups, and one-on-one instruction). In addition, we will compare student outcomes in online (Year 1) and in-person (Year 2-3) versions of graduate student instruction. Results will be published and disseminated widely, including via a publicly available website, to ensure that research capacity extends beyond Program participants.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.