Research Security Training: The Importance of Disclosure

该项目将设计和开发一个关于研究安全的培训模块，并评估用户对学习的看法。具体而言，本单元将侧重于在联邦资助的研究中适当披露的重要性。该项目直接解决了根据国家安全总统备忘录-33（NSPM-33）和2022年CHIPS和科学法案加强美国政府支持的研究和开发的研究安全的需要。这种培训的传播和使用将更好地保护美国的研究利益免受国内外风险和威胁。该培训模块将基于互联网，可扩展，灵活，并广泛提供给各种环境中的研究人员和利益攸关方，包括残疾研究人员。这一培训模块将提高对当前披露程序的起源和要求的认识和理解，并阐明通过透明度建立信任的重要性和益处。它还将处理在向故意不披露的参与组织和个人授予奖励时与不披露风险有关的几个基本要素。 研究安全培训模块系列的开发由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）、美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）、能源部（DOE）和国防部（DOD）共同资助。该研究安全培训模块侧重于适当披露外国合作的重要性，将与内容专家组协商设计和开发，包括政府各部门的研究安全专家。该模块将采用情境认知理论。学习者将接触到基于上下文的案例研究，交互式分支场景，以及在学术研究安全环境中模拟现实生活中的披露场景。在初步设计工作和协商之后，将召集重点小组，以评价该单元的易用性并衡量学习过程的功效。评价还将使学习者能够反思他们对该单元内容以及在线学习环境和交付的看法。项目小组将通过调查、访谈和小组交流评估该模块的有效性。评估阶段将包括汇编学习者在焦点小组测试和其他课程效果测试方法中反馈的常见问题（FAQ）文件。在最终用户测试、评估和修改设计之后，该模块将分发给研究安全利益相关者，包括大学研究人员、本科生和研究生、学术管理人员、研究安全管理人员、该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过评估被认为值得支持使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

This project will design and develop a training module about research security, and evaluate user perceptions of learning. Specifically, this module will focus on the importance of proper disclosure in the conduct of federally funded research. This project directly addresses the need to strengthen research security of U.S. government-supported research and development, per the National Security Presidential Memorandum – 33 (NSPM-33) and the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. Dissemination and use of this training will better protect U.S. research interests from foreign and domestic risks and threats. The training module will be Internet-based, scalable, flexible, and widely accessible to researchers and stakeholders in various settings, including researchers with disabilities. This training module will increase awareness and understanding of the origins and requirements of the current disclosure process and articulate the importance and benefit of trust through transparency. It will also address several essential elements associated with the risk of non-disclosure when awarding participant organizations and individuals who willfully fail to disclose. The development of the research security training module series is collaboratively funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Department of Defense (DOD).This research security training module, focused on the importance of proper disclosure of foreign collaborations, will be designed and developed in consultation with a Content Expert Group, which includes experts in research security across government. The module will employ the Situated Cognition Theory. Learners will be exposed to context-based case studies, interactive branching scenarios, and simulations of real-life disclosure scenarios in an academic research security setting. Following the initial design work and consultation, focus groups will be convened to evaluate the module's ease of use and measure the efficacy of the learning process. The evaluations will also allow learners to reflect on their perceptions of the module's content and online learning environment and delivery. The project team will assess the module's effectiveness via surveys, interviews, and group exchanges. The evaluation phase will include a compilation of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) documentation of the learner's feedback during focus group testing and other course effectiveness testing methods. Following end user testing, evaluation, and revisions to the design, the module will be made available for dissemination to research security stakeholders, including university-based researchers, undergraduate, and graduate students, academic administrators, research security administrators, and researchers and staff in government agencies and national laboratories.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.