This $117,053 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and evaluation of interventions to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scientific peer review process. The awardee, a consortium led by Indiana University including Columbia University and California State University San Bernardino, will design and deliver training to both graduate students navigating peer review and the reviewers/editors who...
This $499,992 National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program grant (CFDA 47.076) awarded to the University of California, Berkeley will fund the development and implementation of a comprehensive graduate curriculum to enhance scientific literacy, peer review skills, and communication capabilities among STEM graduate students. The two-year project, titled "Empowering Tomorrow's Scholars: A Comprehensive Training Initiative for Graduate Students in...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $501,890 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to assess bias and idiosyncrasies in elite scientific peer review. The University of Colorado will produce and make publicly available multiple comprehensive anonymized datasets spanning submitted manuscripts and reviews from two elite general science journals over multiple years and fields. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering, provides $200,000 in funding to George Mason University to develop improved methods and concepts to guide the development and application of new digital technologies that could be used in peer review processes for evaluating scientific publishing and funding outcomes. The research team will seek to compare...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant awarded under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $697,718 to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR) to expand the functionality of MetaReviewer, a free, web-based software tool that supports the conduct of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in STEM education research. The project will develop three new key features in MetaReviewer: (a) a literature search portal to manage literature search...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $481,384 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to enhance the Peer+ tool, which supports peer instruction techniques in STEM courses. The project aims to evaluate the effects of three different peer discussion modes - text-chat during lectures, pseudo text-chat after lectures, and traditional in-person peer discussions - on learning outcomes and student satisfaction across...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $190,425 to the University of North Texas to develop, implement, and assess a set of evidence-based guidelines and practices for scientific organizations to promote inclusion and minimize systemic exclusion. The "Creating Inclusive Scientific Societies through Policies and Practices (CRISSPP)" project will partner with the University of Michigan and University of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $333,285 to the University of Pittsburgh to create an innovative "Peer-Reviewed Presentation Exchange (PEREPEX)" model that integrates primary biology research literature into large undergraduate courses. The project aims to make research engagement opportunities traditionally available only in advanced courses accessible to a broader range of students, with a focus on inclusivity and...
This two-year, $275,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Social and Economic Science will fund research under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to advance semantic network analysis of evaluative exchanges that shape scientific arguments. The grantee, Stanford University, will systematically represent the hierarchical logical dependencies of scientific arguments, discern expressions of epistemological value, and develop a method to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) provides $615,628 to Emory University to develop and research a preprint and peer review platform called EIRXIV (Emerging Investigators Archive). The goal is to engage high school students in authentic science communication by enabling them to share their research, receive feedback from scientists, and participate in a peer scientific community. The project aims to transform students' understanding of...
This $274,095 National Science Foundation project grant supports the Reviewer Zero coalition's efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the peer review process. Funded under the NSF's STEM Education program, the three-year award provides strategic programming and interventions for graduate students and reviewers/editors.
The grantees—Indiana University, Columbia University, and California State San Bernardino—will design and deliver evidence-based training to build awareness of inequities in peer review culture among historically underrepresented graduate students and the reviewers who make peer review decisions. A new formative paper development system will provide interactive reviewer-trainee engagement replacing gatekeeping functions. Outreach to journals and societies will disseminate the goals of reframing peer review as a supportive rather than judgemental process. Evaluation will assess how engagement shifts participants' skills and abilities to advance understanding of cultural change. The project's innovations aim to make peer review a more equitable and inclusive system for all scientists.