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

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.

高等教育在扩大各个层面的 STEM 参与度（PE Fit）方面一直在努力取得有意义的进展，研究表明，拥有与个人需求、技能和能力相一致的组织环境可以改善教育和职业成果。由于 PE Fit 是在多个组织层面上进行理论化的，因此本研究将探讨 STEM 研究小组、部门和学科层面的包容性氛围。本研究将通过解决环境的两个新方面来建立 PE Fit 理论： 1) 作者身份在整个 STEM 研究过程中，智力贡献受到充分欢迎和重视；2) COVID-19 大流行，对早期职业生涯的 STEM 学者的个人和职业生活造成了前所未有的干扰。总体目标是增进理解。关于早期职业气候和 COVID-19 大流行对 STEM 职业成果（生产力和态度）和职业道路的纵向影响，特别是对于来自失败群体的学者而言，这项拟议的研究是一项基于先前工作的混合方法研究。在一项调查中在 COVID-19 大流行的第一年（时间 1），该项目将支持一项纵向跟踪调查（时间 2），涵盖了超过 3500 名生物学、经济学、物理学和心理学领域的研究生、博士后学者和助理教授。调查将通过对参与者的不同子样本（n = 80）进行深入访谈（时间 3）来补充。这些访谈将深入了解学者如何理解、驾驭和塑造学术氛围，以及多个层面的氛围如何相互作用以及与 COVID-19 的干扰如何影响职业道路。重要的是，这项研究包括大量的内容。具有多重交叉社会身份的个人，这将允许对许多因素进行分类，这将增加对研究的理解。对学术氛围的关注基于与教师、博士后学者和研究生职业成果（包括他们的生产力）直接相关的文献。承诺、离职意向以及这项研究将有助于加深对气候因素对 STEM 教育、研究和工作场所环境的影响的了解，并将有助于改善所有人的这些环境的气候。该项目得到了 NSF 的 EHR 核心研究 (ECR) 计划的支持。该计划强调基础 STEM 教育研究，在重要、广泛和持久的关键领域进行投资：STEM 学习和 STEM 学习环境、扩大 STEM 的参与以及 STEM 劳动力发展。提供强有力的证据，为理解、建立理论解释以及建议干预和创新的努力提供信息，以解决教育领域持续存在的挑战。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查进行评估，被认为值得支持标准。