Building Social and Behavioral Science Research Competency

建立社会和行为科学研究能力

• 批准号: 7619495
• 负责人: Martin Myron Chemers
• 金额: $ 10.27万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-01 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7619495
• 关键词: Address; African American; Behavioral; Data Analyses; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Evaluation; Funding; Goals; Guidelines; Hispanic Americans; Individual; Logic; Medical; Minority; Native Americans; Participant; Process; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Scientist; Students; Training Programs; Treatment Efficacy; United States National Academy of Sciences; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; behavioral/social science; career; design; experience; insight; lectures; programs; scale up; social; social science research; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The persistent underrepresentation of Native Americans, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans in the ranks of Ph.D.-level researchers in the biomedical fields has long been recognized as a problem for our nation. The National Institutes of Health have sponsored extensive minority-target training programs under the Minority Opportunity in Research (MORE) program. Although some evaluations have found that students in MORE programs are more likely than other students to pursue research careers, the results are not unequivocal. Moreover, very little high-quality research has addressed the question of how such programs work, i.e., the processes by which the programs have their effects. Reliable information on positive and negative aspects of the enrichment process would permit the development of guidelines for optimally effective programs and would provide opportunities for scaling up for a larger number of trainees. To attain valid information about MORE program effects, NIH-GMS launched an RO1 initiative for "Research on the Efficacy of Interventions that Promote Research Careers" in 2003. At a recent (May 2007) workshop sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, it was acknowledged that there has been a dearth of high-quality proposals for the initiative. Although many of the proposals come from individuals with great understanding of and insight into the programs (e.g., natural scientists or medical educators), the proposals lack expertise and sophistication in the social and behavioral science research that is necessary to answer the proposed questions and suffer from insufficient theoretical grounding, weak designs, and/or weak or inappropriate data analysis strategies. The current proposal seeks funding to offer conferences/workshops to introduce previously unsuccessful or potential proposal writers to (a) the basic logic of social and behavioral science research, (b) appropriate research designs and analyses, and (c) strategies for the composition of interdisciplinary teams. Taught by knowledgeable and experienced social and behavioral scientists, the workshops will employ lectures, demonstrations, problem sets, and small group sessions to allow participants to address the necessary topics. The goal of the workshop is not to make participants experts in social science research, but rather to increase their capabilities to organize and manage highly effective research teams.

描述（由申请人提供）：在生物医学领域的博士学位研究人员中，美国原住民，非裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人的持续代表性不足，长期以来一直被认为是我们国家的问题。美国国立卫生研究院（National Institutes of Health）在研究（More）计划的少数群体机会下赞助了广泛的少数民族目标培训计划。尽管一些评估发现，与其他学生相比，更多课程的学生更有可能从事研究职业，但结果并非明确。此外，很少有高质量的研究解决了这样的程序如何工作的问题，即程序具有其效果的过程。关于富集过程正面和负面方面的可靠信息将允许制定最佳有效计划的准则，并将为大量受训者提供扩展的机会。为了获得有关更多程序效应的有效信息，NIH-GMS在2003年发起了“研究促进研究职业的干预措施的疗效”的RO1计划。在最近的（2007年5月）由国家科学院赞助的一个研讨会上，人们承认，人们一直在高质量提案中为启动而言。尽管许多提案来自对这些计划（例如自然科学家或医学教育者）有深刻理解和洞察力的人，但这些建议在社会和行为科学研究中缺乏专业知识和精致，这对于回答拟议问题并遭受了不足的理论基础，薄弱的设计，以及/或弱或弱或不适当的数据数据分析策略是必要的。当前的提案寻求资金提供会议/研讨会，以将以前失败或潜在的提案作者介绍给（a）社会和行为科学研究的基本逻辑，（b）适当的研究设计和分析，以及（c）跨学科团队组成的策略。在知识渊博，经验丰富的社会和行为科学家的教授中，这些讲习班将采用讲座，示威，问题集和小组会议，以允许参与者解决必要的主题。研讨会的目的不是使社会科学研究的参与者专家，而是提高他们组织和管理高效研究团队的能力。