{"id":828,"date":"2012-09-08T00:07:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T00:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/?p=828"},"modified":"2014-01-08T00:19:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T00:19:22","slug":"investigating-how-to-assess-international-collaboration-at-the-graduate-level-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/investigating-how-to-assess-international-collaboration-at-the-graduate-level-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigating the International Experience in STEM Graduate Education and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-832\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"figure figure-caption wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CIRGE-WORKSHOP1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-832  \" title=\"CIRGE WORKSHOP\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CIRGE-WORKSHOP1-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CIRGE-WORKSHOP1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CIRGE-WORKSHOP1-1024x577.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Tami Blumenfield <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The program was designed to (a) increase our mutual understanding of essential topics relevant to investigating the impact of international collaborations at the (post) graduate level and beyond, (b) gather information on what we know and should know about assessing international experiences and programs, and (c) move collectively towards charting research directions for the coming years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After 40 hours of dialogue and small work sessions, one important result of the workshop was coming to a consensus over key questions as priorities for further empirical research. Some of the critical research questions are illustrated below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. Does international collaboration lead to better science\/scientists?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 2. Do current institutional and funding structures lead to missed opportunities for international collaboration? If so, how?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 3. How can we assess institutional preparedness for international\u00a0 collaborations\/ experiences?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 4. What are the expected outcomes and goals of international experiences\/collaborations? How are they established?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 5. What are the actual impacts, outcomes, and transformations of the international experiences\/collaborations?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Another outcome was the development of two assessment frameworks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Further the workshop inspired a number of publications and grant proposals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"Investigating  how to Assess International Collaboration at the Graduate level and beyond\" href=\"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FIN-Assessing-Intl-Ed-Report-3-2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">See Final Report<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"Presentations: International Experience in STEM Graduate Education and Beyond\" href=\"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/presentations_international_colaboration\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>See Presentations &#8220;Lightening Talks&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Tangible outputs after the workshop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/tangible-outputs-after-the-workshop\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>See Tangible Outcomes<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Researchers:<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maresi Nerad and Tami Blumenfield. \u0093Investigating the International Experiences in STEM Graduate Education and Beyond: Report from a Workshop to Develop a Research Agenda.\u0094 Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education, University of Washington. National Science Foundation Grant #105029.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The program was designed to (a) increase our mutual understanding of essential topics relevant to investigating the impact of international collaborations at the (post) graduate level and beyond, (b) gather information on what we know and should know about assessing international experiences and programs, and (c) move collectively towards charting research directions for the coming years. After 40 hours of dialogue and small work sessions, one important result of the workshop was coming to a consensus over key questions as&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/investigating-how-to-assess-international-collaboration-at-the-graduate-level-and-beyond\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Investigating the International Experience in STEM Graduate Education and Beyond<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,291],"tags":[570,383,178,184,390,648],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment-international-collaboration","category-international-collaboration","tag-international-research-agendas","tag-international-research-collaboration","tag-nerad","tag-nsf","tag-postgraduate-education","tag-stem-graduate-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4334,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}