Virtual Games for STEMM Faculty to Break the Bias Habit

描述（由申请人提供）：威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的玛丽（莫莉）卡恩斯博士是探路者奖的理想候选人。她的创新研究已经导致实践的变化，促进科学，技术，工程，数学和医学（STEMM）的劳动力多样性。基于内隐刻板印象的偏见习惯性地-即使是无意的-影响决策的方式，不利于在STEM中代表不足的群体的个人。作为一个开拓者，卡恩斯博士将开发一个互动的，体验式的，基于案例的电脑游戏，将教教师识别和自我纠正隐式的基于刻板印象的偏见。这种方法是基于游戏学习对态度，行为和社会互动的影响，包括医学教育和咨询。研究表明，组织变革取决于组织成员的态度和行为变化-在这种情况下，STEMM教师。有报告指出，隐性偏见的综合影响可能构成少数民族和种族、残疾人和妇女充分参与和促进科学、技术、教育和管理的最大障碍。虽然基于游戏的学习与Carnes博士过去的研究有着明显的不同，但拟议的工作与她以前的努力有着共同的特点：整合多个研究流;涉及多学科合作者;设计理论上知情的，基于证据的干预措施，可以迅速转化为实践;并将评估和修改纳入迭代，解决问题的周期。拟议的研究是高度创新的，因为它接近隐式的基于刻板印象的偏见在决策作为一种可补救的习惯，目标教师谁是制度变革的驱动程序，并使用基于游戏的学习策略，设计真实的经验，可以帮助教师打破偏见的习惯。凭借Carnes博士过去成功的高影响力研究历史，她非常适合利用探路者奖来实现新的重要突破，以增加STEM员工的多样性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Dr. Mary (Molly) Carnes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is an ideal candidate for the Pathfinder Award. Her innovative research has already led to changes in practices that promote workforce diversity in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM). Implicit stereotype-based biases habitually - even if unintentionally - influence decision-making in ways that disadvantage individuals from groups underrepresented in STEMM. As a Pathfinder, Dr. Carnes will develop an interactive, experiential, case-based computer game that will teach faculty to recognize and self-correct implicit stereotype-based biases. This approach is based on the proven impact of game-based learning on attitudes, behaviors, and social interactions in several fields including medical education and counseling. This approach is also informed by research showing that organizational change depends on attitudinal and behavioral changes in members of the organization - in this case STEMM faculty. The potential for groundbreaking impact is supported by reports stating that the aggregate impact of implicit biases may constitute the greatest impediment to the full participation and advancement in STEMM of ethnic and racial minorities, people with disabilities, and women. While game-based learning is a clear departure from Dr. Carnes's past research, the proposed work shares the hallmarks of her previous endeavors: integrating multiple streams of research; involving multi- disciplinary collaborators; designing theoretically-informed, evidence-based interventions that can be rapidly translated into practice; and incorporating evaluation and modification in iterative, problem-solving cycles. The proposed research is highly innovative in that it approaches implicit stereotype-based bias in decision-making as a remediable habit, targets faculty who are the drivers of institutional change, and uses game-based learning strategies to design authentic experiences that can help faculty break the bias habit. With Dr. Carnes's past history of successful, high-impact research, she is ideally suited to utilize the Pathfinder Award to achieve new and important breakthroughs to increase STEMM workforce diversity.