Experimental Approaches to Improving Research Funding Programs Proceedings of a Workshop (2024) / Chapter Skim
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... The workshop included leading researchers in the burgeoning area of the science of science funding, as well as practitioners from government and the private sector with experience supporting or carrying out experimentation and evaluation. Participants explored the potential of and opportunities for using experimental design to test new federal funding policies and practices, discussed illustrative examples of the use of experimentation from the United States and abroad, considered methods of evaluation, and fostered relationships for future experimentation.
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... A workshop proceedings will be prepared by a designated rapporteur.  the time burden of preparing and reviewing research proposals,  insufficient diversity in the pools of applicants and awardees,  aspects of the application and selection processes that make it difficult for early-career researchers to obtain adequate funding,  aspects of the application and selection processes that may make it difficult to obtain funding for potentially breakthrough lines of research, and  the possibly poor fit of traditional models of peer review with narrowly defined experts in the face of an increasing share of high-impact research emerging from multidisciplinary teams.
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... . WORKSHOP GOALS AND THIS PROCEEDINGS Historically, there has been reluctance to "experiment" with public money, but the ongoing concerns about the current system made a National Academies workshop on this topic timely.
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... The workshop represents an important first step in raising awareness of how experimentation may be used to improve the processes and outcomes of federal funding of research. This Proceedings of a Workshop was prepared by a workshop rapporteur as a factual summary of what was presented and discussed at the workshop.
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... Evidence from journal peer review. September 9.


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