Iterative Improvement of a Program for Building Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, Accessible Large-scale (IDEAL) Participatory Science Projects

迭代改进建立包容、多样化、公平、可访问的大型（IDEAL）参与性科学项目的计划

• 批准号: 2313996
• 负责人: Caren Cooper
• 金额: $ 199.94万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2313996&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Iterative; Improvement; Program; Building; Inclusive

Many scientific inquiries require the participation of thousands of people across multiple locations to share their observations and local knowledge which together yield discoveries that are otherwise unobtainable. These large-scale public participation in scientific research (PPSR) projects also provide an important opportunity for public engagement in science. However, PPSR projects share a common challenge: public participants tend to be demographically homogeneous (white, wealthy, and highly educated), which limits informal science learning opportunities and produces gaps in the scientific data in terms of race, ability and lived experience. In this project, researchers and practitioners of two national participatory science projects will beta-test a professional development program called Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, Accessible, Large-scale (IDEAL) participatory science. The program was co-created with practitioners and students who are people of color and/or immigrants, representing a range of gender identities and sexual orientations and neurodivergent individuals alongside facilitators that specialize in helping STEM professionals address social inequities. The IDEAL program supports practitioners in developing self-awareness, readiness, agency, and resources to modify their projects with practices that support belonging, equity, and accessibility. The project will iteratively test the IDEAL program and study whether it can impact practitioners' subsequent behaviors to change project structures to engage an audience of groups of the public that have been historically excluded (e.g., people of color, people with disabilities) from large-scale participatory science projects. This work is led by a partnership of researchers and practitioners from North Carolina State University, Shaw University (an HBCU), Arizona State University (a Hispanic-Serving Institution), and two nation-wide public participation in scientific research projects, Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count (CBC) and Colorado State University’s Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS), and guided by team members and advisors with expertise in diversity, equity, access, and inclusion and racially, ethnically, gender and disability diverse lived experiences.Over a three-year period, this project will provide, iterate, and test the impact of IDEAL practices with approximately 180 practitioners whose implementation will reach approximately 6,000 public participants. The research will result in evidence-based professional development to support practices for diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in the informal learning context of large-scale participatory sciences. The research will examine self-awareness, readiness, agency, and implementation of new practices by practitioners who beta test the IDEAL program. The team will conduct document analyses of the practitioner products and discourse analysis among the communities of practice supported through the IDEAL program. These methods will be used to detail evidence of IDEAL constructs (e.g., do they describe inclusion or assimilation?), derived constructs related to intended practitioner outcomes (self-awareness, readiness, and agency), and additional emergent themes using content analysis. Retrospective self-reported outcomes will explore practitioner attributions to the IDEAL training, and quantitative comparisons will help the team begin to understand aspects that differ among identity groups. To determine the impacts of the training on broadening participation among PPSR participants, the team will create three comparison groups: IDEAL sites with implementation financial support, IDEAL sites without implementation financial support, and sites without any practitioners trained with the IDEAL Program. Using pre/post surveys across approximately 1,200 public participants, the team will be able to gauge the impact of the IDEAL program on diversity of participant identity groups, participants' sense of belonging to the project, and participants' self-efficacy for science learning and doing. The evidence-based program will be shared widely on freely accessible blogs, websites, and resource centers. Research findings will be disseminated through peer-reviewed journal articles and through public media outlets such as podcasts and a bilingual radio show.This Integrating Research and Practice project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which supports projects that: (a) contribute to research and practice that considers informal STEM learning's role in equity and belonging in STEM; (b) promote personal and educational success in STEM; (c) advance public engagement in scientific discovery; (d) foster interest in STEM careers; (e) create and enhance the theoretical and empirical foundations for effective informal STEM learning; (f) improve community vibrancy; and/or (g) enhance science communication and the public's engagement in and understanding of STEM and STEM processes.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.

许多科学调查需要来自多个地点的数千人参与，以分享他们的观察结果和当地知识，这些发现共同产生了其他方式无法获得的发现。这些大规模公众参与科学研究 (PPSR) 项目也为公众参与提供了重要机会。然而，PPSR 项目面临着一个共同的挑战：公众参与者往往在人口结构上是同质的（白人、富有且受过高等教育），这限制了非正式的科学学习机会，并在种族、能力和生活方面产生了科学数据的差距。在这个项目中，研究人员的经验。两个国家参与性科学项目的孤儿将测试一个名为“包容性、多元化、公平、可访问、大规模（IDEAL）参与性科学”的专业发展计划。该计划是与有色人种和学生共同创建的。 IDEAL 计划支持从业者发展自我意识、准备能力、机构和资源，以支持归属感、公平性和可及性的实践来修改其项目。该项目将迭代测试 IDEAL 计划，并研究它是否可以影响从业者的后续行为，以改变项目结构以吸引公众群体。历史上被排除在大型参与性科学项目之外的人（例如有色人种、残疾人）这项工作由来自北卡罗来纳州立大学、逸夫大学（HBCU）、亚利桑那州立大学的研究人员和实践者合作领导。大学（一西班牙裔服务机构），以及两个全国范围内公众参与的科学研究项目，奥杜邦的圣诞鸟类计数（CBC）和科罗拉多州立大学的社区合作雨、冰雹和雪网络（CoCoRaHS），并由团队成员和顾问指导在多样性、公平性、准入性和包容性以及种族、民族、性别和残疾方面多样化的生活体验方面的专业知识。在三年的时间内，该项目将提供、迭代和测试 IDEAL 实践的影响，涉及约 180该研究的实施将覆盖约 6,000 名公众参与者，以支持大规模参与性科学的非正式学习环境中的多样性、公平性、可及性和包容性实践。测试 IDEAL 计划的从业者对新实践的认识、准备、代理和实施。该团队将对 IDEAL 计划支持的实践社区中的从业者产品进行文档分析，并进行话语分析。证据细节理想的结构（例如，它们是否描述了包容性或同化？）、与预期的从业者结果（自我意识、准备度和代理性）相关的派生结构，以及使用内容分析的回顾性自我报告结果的其他新兴主题将探索从业者的归因。 IDEAL 培训和定量比较将帮助团队开始了解身份群体之间的差异，为了确定培训对扩大 PPSR 参与者参与的影响，团队将创建三个比较组：通过对大约 1,200 名公众参与者进行事前/事后调查，团队将能够评估 IDEAL 计划对有财务支持的 IDEAL 站点、没有财务实施支持的 IDEAL 站点以及没有经过 IDEAL 计划实施培训的场所。身份群体的多样性、参与者对项目的归属感以及参与者对科学学习和实践的自我效能将在可免费访问的博客、网站和资源中心上广泛分享。传播通过同行评审的期刊文章以及通过播客和双语广播节目等公共媒体渠道。这个整合研究与实践的项目由推进非正式 STEM 学习 (AISL) 计划资助，该计划支持以下项目：(a) 为研究和考虑非正式 STEM 学习在 STEM 中的公平和归属感的作用； (b) 促进 STEM 中的个人和教育成功； (c) 促进公众参与科学发现； (e) 创造和加强 STEM 职业；有效的非正式 STEM 学习的理论和实证基础；(f) 提高社区活力；和/或 (g) 加强科学传播以及公众对 STEM 和 STEM 过程的参与和理解。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被视为值得通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。