NRT-IGE: Integrating Team Science into the STEM Graduate Training Experience

NRT-IGE：将团队科学融入 STEM 研究生培训体验

• 批准号: 1735017
• 负责人: Mary Realff
• 金额: $ 47.77万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1735017&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRT; IGE; Integrating; Team; Science

Large interdisciplinary teams are frequently at the core of research on today's complex science and engineering problems. Working in teams is challenging for many scientists and engineers because the culture of universities, where they studied, recognizes and rewards individual achievement. For example, a Ph.D. student's final project report, the dissertation, must represent the student's own original contribution. Likewise, universities promote individual faculty members, not groups, through the ranks. Despite the importance of team-based research, universities have historically provided little systematic preparation for science and engineering graduate students to help them succeed in careers involving greater collaboration. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track to the Georgia Institute of Technology will address these challenges by developing materials to train graduate students to work in teams and by measuring the effectiveness of these materials. The project will take a novel approach to curriculum development by drawing on best practices in team training from a wide range of sources such as the healthcare industry, aviation, and the military. Adaptation of these materials to meet the needs of graduate students will ensure that the students become effective team members and leaders who can advance science and engineering throughout their careers. This project seeks to determine how graduate students learn to be effective team members and team leaders. The project will investigate which instructional materials and approaches are most effective for students to develop teamwork competencies and which settings are most suitable for learning and retaining specific transportable skills. This project has three goals: (1) develop instructional materials and collaborative processes for team training; (2) implement these instructional materials; and (3) evaluate the effectiveness of instructional materials as well as the processes for developing and implementing team training at the graduate level. Achieving these goals will add to the knowledge base about effective graduate education. The project focuses on three key considerations: competencies, audiences, and settings. The competencies studied by this project are transportable, meaning they are useful in many different areas of research. Examples include knowledge about the nature and value of teamwork, skills in communication and conflict management, and attitudes about diversity and inclusiveness. The audience for the project includes M.S. and Ph.D. students across a wide range of STEM programs. To maximize flexibility, the team will develop curricular materials in small units that faculty can deliver in different settings. Settings where materials will be developed and introduced include existing academic courses, short (60-90 minute) or longer (half day, full day) workshops, and semester-long academic courses. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.

大型跨学科团队经常是当今复杂科学和工程问题的研究的核心。对于许多科学家和工程师来说，在团队中工作是充满挑战的，因为他们研究，认识和奖励个人成就的大学文化。例如，博士学位学生的最终项目报告《论文》必须代表学生自己的原始贡献。同样，大学通过等级来促进个人教师，而不是群体。尽管基于团队的研究很重要，但历史上，大学为科学和工程研究生提供了很少的系统准备，以帮助他们成功地从事涉及更多协作的职业。这项国家科学基金会研究训练（NRT）在研究生教育创新（IGE）轨道上颁发的佐治亚理工学院奖将通过开发培训材料来培训研究生以在团队中工作并衡量这些材料的有效性来应对这些挑战。该项目将通过借鉴来自医疗保健行业，航空和军队等各种来源的团队培训的最佳实践来采用新颖的课程开发方法。适应这些材料以满足研究生的需求，将确保学生成为有效的团队成员和领导者，他们可以在整个职业生涯中促进科学和工程。该项目旨在确定研究生如何学会成为有效的团队成员和团队负责人。该项目将调查哪些教学材料和方法最有效地使学生开发团队合作能力，哪些设置最适合学习和保留特定的可运输技能。该项目有三个目标：（1）为团队培训开发教学材料和协作流程； （2）实施这些教学材料； （3）评估教学材料的有效性以及在研究生层面开发和实施团队培训的过程。实现这些目标将增加有关有效研究生教育的知识基础。该项目侧重于三个关键考虑因素：能力，受众和设置。该项目研究的能力是可以运输的，这意味着它们在许多不同的研究领域都有用。例子包括有关团队合作的性质和价值，沟通和冲突管理技能的知识以及对多样性和包容性的态度。该项目的观众包括M.S.和博士各种STEM课程的学生。为了最大程度地提高灵活性，团队将以教师可以在不同情况下提供的小型单元开发课程材料。将开发和介绍材料的设置包括现有的学术课程，短期（60-90分钟）或更长的时间（半天，全天）研讨会和长期的学术课程。 NSF研究训练（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施用于STEM研究生教育培训的大胆，新的，潜在的变革性模型。研究生教育轨道的创新仅致力于试点，测试和评估新颖，创新和潜在的变革性研究生教育方法。