Collaborative Research: Broadening participation of marginalized scholars in STEM: The longitudinal influence of early-career climate experiences on professional pathways

合作研究：扩大边缘化学者对 STEM 的参与：早期职业气候经历对职业道路的纵向影响

• 批准号: 2300710
• 负责人: Kendra Cheruvelil
• 金额: $ 113.65万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2028-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2300710&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Broadening; participation; marginalized; Collaborative; Research; Broadening; participation; marginalized

Higher education has struggled to make meaningful progress in broadening the participation in STEM at all levels. Person-Environment Fit (PE Fit) research reveals that education and career outcomes are improved by having an organizational environment that is congruent with one’s needs, skills, and values. Because PE Fit is theorized at multiple organizational levels, this study will examine inclusive climate at the levels of the STEM research group, department, and academic discipline. This study will build upon the PE Fit theory by addressing two novel aspects of environment: 1) authorship climate, in which intellectual contributions are fully welcomed and valued throughout the STEM research process, and 2) the COVID-19 pandemic, which created unprecedented disruptions in the personal and professional lives of early-career STEM scholars. The overarching goal is to increase understanding about the longitudinal effects of early-career climates and the COVID-19 pandemic on STEM career outcomes (productivity and attitudes) and professional pathways, especially for scholars from marginalized groups. This proposed research is a mixed-methods study building on prior work that resulted in a survey of over 3500 graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and assistant professors in biology, economics, physics, and psychology in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic (time 1). This project will support a longitudinal follow-up survey (time 2) of the scholars to examine the effect of academic climates and COVID-19 on career outcomes and pathways over time. The survey will be complemented with in-depth interviews (at time 3) with a diverse subsample (n = 80) of the participants. These interviews will provide insight into how scholars make sense of, navigate, and shape academic climates, and how multiple levels of climate interact with each other and with COVID-19 disruptions, to affect professional pathways. Importantly, this study includes a large number of individuals with multiple intersecting social identities which will allow for disaggregation along many factors which will increase understanding from the research. The focus on academic climates is based on the literature that directly links to faculty, postdoctoral scholar, and graduate student career outcomes including their productivity, commitment, turnover intentions, and satisfaction. This study will help increase understanding of the impact of climate factors in STEM education, research, and workplace environments will contribute to improving the climate of these settings for all.This project is supported by NSF's EHR Core Research (ECR) program. The ECR program emphasizes fundamental STEM education research that generates foundational knowledge in the field. Investments are made in critical areas that are essential, broad and enduring: STEM learning and STEM learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development. The program supports the accumulation of robust evidence to inform efforts to understand, build theory to explain, and suggest intervention and innovations to address persistent challenges in education.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.

高等教育一直在努力在扩大各个级别的STEM参与方面取得有意义的进步。人环境拟合（PE FIT）的研究表明，拥有与自己的需求，技能和价值观一致的组织环境，可以改善教育和职业成果。由于PE FIT在多个组织级别上是理论上的，因此本研究将检查STEM研究小组，部门和学术纪律水平的包容性气候。这项研究将通过解决环境的两个新颖方面来基于PE拟合理论：1）作者身份的气候，其中智力贡献在整个STEM研究过程中得到了完全的欢迎和价值，以及2）Covid-19-Covid-19，这在早期养生STEM STEM SEMER SEMER SEMER SENERARS的个人和职业生涯中造成了前所未有的破坏。总体目标是提高人们对早期培训的纵向影响以及COVID-19的大流行对STEM职业成果（生产力和出勤率）和专业途径的理解，尤其是对于边缘化群体的学者而言。这项拟议的研究是一项基于先前工作的混合方法研究，该研究导致对3500多名研究生，博士后学者和生物学，经济学，物理学和心理学的助理教授进行了调查，该研究是Covid-19的第一年大流行病学的第一年（时间1）。该项目将支持学者的纵向后续调查（时间2），以研究随着时间的流逝，学术气候和Covid-19对职业成果和途径的影响。该调查将通过深入的访谈（时间3）与参与者的潜水员子样本（n = 80）进行。这些访谈将提供有关学者如何理解，导航和塑造学术气候以及如何相互互动以及与Covid-19-19的干扰相互作用的洞察力，以影响专业途径。重要的是，这项研究包括大量具有多个相交社会身份的个体，这将允许沿许多因素进行分解，从而增加研究的理解。对学术气候的重点是基于与教师，博士后科学和研究生职业成果直接联系的文献，包括其生产力，承诺，离职意图和满意度。这项研究将有助于提高人们对气候因素在STEM教育，研究和工作场所环境中的影响的理解，这将有助于改善所有设置的气候。该项目得到NSF的EHR核心研究（ECR）计划的支持。 ECR计划强调了基本的STEM教育研究，该研究在该领域产生了基础知识。投资是在重要，广泛和结束的关键领域进行的：STEM学习和STEM学习环境，扩大参与STEM以及STEM劳动力的发展。该计划支持积累强大的证据，以告知努力，以理解，建立理论来解释理论，并提出干预和创新，以应对教育中的持续挑战。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来进行评估的。