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.

许多科学询问要求在多个地点参与成千上万的人，以分享他们的观察结果和当地知识，这些发现共同产生了原本无法获得的发现。这些大规模的公众参与科学研究（PPSR）项目也为公众参与科学提供了重要的机会。但是，PPSR项目有一个共同的挑战：公共参与者倾向于在人口统计学上（白人，富人和受过高等教育），这限制了非正式的科学学习机会，并就种族，能力和现场经验而言，在科学数据中产生差距。在这个项目中，两个国家参与科学项目的研究人员和从业人员将β测试一项专业发展计划，称为包容性，多样，公平，易于访问，大规模（理想）参与科学。该计划与有色人种和/或移民的人共同创建，代表一系列性别认同和性取向，以及神经异常的个人以及促进者以及专门帮助STEM专业人士解决社会不平等的促进者。理想的计划支持实践者发展自我意识，准备，代理和资源，以支持归属，公平和可及性的实践来修改其项目。该项目将迭代测试理想的计划，并研究它是否会影响从业人员随后的行为，以改变项目结构，以吸引一群在历史上被排除的公众群体（例如，有色人种，残疾人，残疾人）来自大型参与科学项目。这项工作是由北卡罗来纳州立大学，邵氏大学（AN HBCU），亚利桑那州立大学（西班牙裔服务机构）的研究人员和从业人员的合作伙伴关系的领导，以及两个全国性的公众参与科学研究项目，奥杜邦的圣诞节鸟类伯爵（CBC）和科罗拉多州立大学的社区协作型和导致雪地（COOCORE SNOGER）的委员会（CBC）的成员（CBC）和顾问（COCORS SNOW，HAIL，HAIL，HAIL，HAIL，HAIL，COCORENISE）在多样性，公平，访问和包容性以及种族，种族，性别和残疾潜水员的生活经验上。在三年的时间内，该项目将提供，迭代并测试理想实践的影响，并适当地实践，其实施将达到6,000名公共参与者。这项研究将导致基于证据的专业发展，以支持大型参与科学的非正式学习环境中的多样性，公平，可及性和包容性实践。该研究将研究Beta测试理想计划的实践者对新实践的自我意识，准备，代理和实施。该团队将在理想计划支持的实践社区中对实践产品和话语分析进行文档分析。这些方法将用于详细介绍理想结构的证据（例如，它们描述了包容性或同化吗？），与预期实践者结果（自我意识，准备和代理性）相关的衍生结构，以及使用内容分析的其他新兴主题。回顾性自我报告的结果将探索从业人员的理想培训属性，定量比较将有助于团队开始了解身份群体之间不同的方面。为了确定培训对PPSR参与者的参与的影响，团队将创建三个比较组：具有实施财务支持的理想站点，没有实施财务支持的理想站点以及没有任何接受理想计划培训的从业者的网站。在适当的1200名公共参与者中，使用前/后调查，该团队将能够评估理想计划对参与身份小组多样性的影响，参与者对项目的归属感以及参与者对科学学习和做事的自我效果。基于证据的计划将在免费的可访问的博客，网站和资源中心上广泛共享。研究发现将通过同行评审的期刊文章以及诸如播客和双语广播节目之类的公共媒体进行传播。该整合研究和实践项目由前进的非正式STEM学习计划（AISL）计划提供资金，该计划支持：（a）为研究和实践做出贡献的研究和实践，以考虑信息的作用，以考虑信息在典型和STEM中属于STEM属于STEM和STEM中的角色； （b）在STEM中促进个人和教育成功； （c）提高公众参与科学发现； （d）促进对STEM职业的兴趣； （e）为有效的非正式STEM学习创建和增强理论和经验基础； （f）改善社区活力；和/或（g）增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的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来通过评估来支持的。