RAPID: Assessing the impact of Harassment and other Negative Events on Inclusion of Undergraduate Students in STEM

RAPID：评估骚扰和其他负面事件对本科生融入 STEM 的影响

• 批准号: 1941537
• 负责人: Jennifer Mankoff
• 金额: $ 19.41万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2020-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1941537&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Assessing; impact; Harassment; other

There is need to understand the prevalence, impact, and source of sexual and gender harassment on the careers of women in STEM. Such events which can have an additive, cumulative effect on careers. How does this cumulative adversity affect women and when does it cause them to leave STEM altogether? While this topic has been studied in great detail, there is a lack of understanding of the relationship between harassment, short-term behavior, and long-term outcomes, as well as the structural issues that impact the university response. The proposed study will address this by following students through their entire four-year undergraduate university experience, and combining detailed measures of short-term behavior, mental health, and physical activity with qualitative data. The analysis will be of use to policy makers, will help clinicians develop new therapeutic approaches, and will ultimately support intervention design.In 2018, a team at the University of Washington launched UWEXP, which aims to study undergraduate engineering students during their entire four-year college experience, and which is unique in that it uses passive sensing (from phones and Fitbits), combined with self-reported answers to bi-weekly questionnaires and periodic longer surveys, to better understand the student experience. Analysis of the 2018 pilot data has unfortunately uncovered an unexpectedly high level of violence, sexual assault, ridicule and gender harassment. The data contains uniquely-detailed passively-sensed information around such negative experiences. To best understand the impact of these events, it is critical to collect more information from study participants as soon as possible, especially while the students are still enrolled at the university. Important information can be obtained from follow up interviews and new analysis, and it would be especially illustrative to collect and study four consecutive years of data. For these reasons, RAPID funds are requested to continue the UWEXP project during the 2019-2020 academic year, while the team continues longer-term fund-raising for the planned four-year data collection. The team will interview participants who experienced harassment about the timeline of their experience; collect another year of data from the participants in the 2018 and 2019 cohorts to make longitudinal analyses of impact possible; study the impact of harassment on participants' behavior immediately following the event and over time, as well as the impact of protective factors such as social support and resilience; and develop algorithms that can detect changes in behavior induced by harassment.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.

有必要了解性和性别骚扰对STEM的职业的患病率，影响和根源。这些事件可能会对职业产生累加，累积影响。这种累积的逆境如何影响妇女，什么时候会导致她们完全离开茎？尽管该主题已经进行了详细的研究，但对骚扰，短期行为和长期结果以及影响大学反应的结构性问题缺乏了解。拟议的研究将通过整个四年的本科大学的经验来追随学生，并将短期行为，心理健康和体育活动的详细措施与定性数据结合在一起。 The analysis will be of use to policy makers, will help clinicians develop new therapeutic approaches, and will ultimately support intervention design.In 2018, a team at the University of Washington launched UWEXP, which aims to study undergraduate engineering students during their entire four-year college experience, and which is unique in that it uses passive sensing (from phones and Fitbits), combined with self-reported answers to bi-weekly questionnaires and periodic longer调查，以更好地了解学生的体验。 不幸的是，对2018年飞行员数据的分析已经揭示了出乎意料的高度暴力，性侵犯，嘲笑和性别骚扰。数据包含有关这种负面体验的独特无源敏感信息。为了最好地了解这些事件的影响，至关重要的是，尽快从研究参与者那里收集更多信息，尤其是在学生仍在大学中。重要信息可以从后续访谈和新分析中获得，并且连续四年的数据收集和研究尤其是说明。由于这些原因，要求快速资金在2019-2020学年中继续进行UWEXP项目，而团队则继续为计划的四年数据收集而进行长期筹款。 团队将面试对自己经验时间表的骚扰的参与者；收集2018年和2019年同伙参与者的另一年数据，以使影响纵向分析；研究骚扰对事件发生后和随着时间的影响的影响，以及保护性因素（例如社会支持和韧性）的影响；并开发可以检测骚扰引起的行为变化的算法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准，认为值得通过评估来获得支持。