Collaborative Research: STEM Workforce Training: A Quasi-Experimental Approach Using the Effects of Research Funding

协作研究：STEM 劳动力培训：利用研究经费影响的准实验方法

基本信息

批准号：
1348691
负责人：
Bruce Weinberg
金额：
$ 49.94万
依托单位：
Ohio State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2013-09-01 至 2017-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1348691&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research STEM Workforce Training

项目摘要

EHR Core ResearchWorkforce DevelopmentThis is a collaborative project involving Ohio State University (lead institution), Pennsylvania State University, American Institutes for Research, University of Illinois-Urbana, and the University of Iowa. The project examines the impact of different research funding structures on the training of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and the impact of their subsequent outcomes. The rationale for the study is the recognition that research teams are organized differently in composition, size, and reliance of graduate students versus postdoctoral fellows. In addition, funding agencies change the structure of science training by creating programs that ?encourage? interdisciplinary groups, multi-university collaborations, or large research centers that focus on specific research questions. However, little research has been done about how these factors shape the career preparation of STEM professionals. The PIs will begin by examining the different contexts of research funding and training and then (1) relate measures of team structure to the structure of funding to determine the extent to which funding agency policies shape research teams and (2) capture the trajectories of the students and postdoctoral fellows during and after their contact with the teams to quantify how the structure of teams affects training. They will use longitudinal administrative data that to capture information about sources of funding for the training and support of Ph.D.s and Postdocs from 13 major research institutions that participate in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. They will then identify the nature of the research training through a text analysis of pertinent documents and use a quasi-experimental design to estimate the causal impact of the structure of research and length of training on trainee outcomes. The project will have broad implications for the entire field of STEM education policy and research. The underlying algorithms and tools will be made available to the academic research community and can be leveraged to link internal human resources data sets to external data sets. This new data infrastructure also will facilitate the assessment of the effects of research investments on research productivity as well as undergraduate and graduate curriculum development.

EHR Core ResearchWorkforce Development这是一个合作项目，涉及俄亥俄州立大学（主要机构），宾夕法尼亚州立大学，美国研究所，伊利诺伊大学 - 乌尔巴纳大学和爱荷华大学。该项目研究了不同的研究资金结构对研究生和博士后研究员的培训以及其后续结果的影响。该研究的理由是认识到研究团队在研究生的组成，规模和依赖方面与博士后研究员的组成，规模和依赖性不同。此外，资金机构通过创建鼓励的计划来改变科学培训的结构？跨学科小组，多元大学合作或专注于特定研究问题的大型研究中心。但是，关于这些因素如何塑造STEM专业人员的职业准备的研究很少。 PI将首先检查研究资金和培训的不同背景，然后（1）将团队结构的措施与资金结构联系起来，以确定资金机构塑造研究团队的资金范围以及（2）捕获轨迹学生和博士后研究员在与团队接触期间和之后，以量化团队的结构如何影响培训。他们将使用纵向行政数据来捕获有关13个参与机构合作委员会的13个主要研究机构的培训和支持资金来源的信息。然后，他们将通过对相关文档的文本分析来确定研究培训的性质，并使用准实验设计来估计研究结构的因果关系，以及培训长度对受训者结果的影响。该项目将对STEM教育政策和研究的整个领域具有广泛的影响。基础算法和工具将提供给学术研究界，并可以利用将内部人力资源数据集与外部数据集联系起来。这种新的数据基础设施还将促进研究投资对研究生产力以及本科和研究生课程发展的影响的评估。