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The Office will use the Agency’s portfolio as a testbed for understanding how scientific communities respond to funding-design choices, apply what it learns to NSF programs, and disseminate findings to the broader federal research enterprise where appropriate. Working across NSF’s Directorates and offices, the Office will identify consequential questions about how the Foundation structures, funds, and conducts science; design rigorous studies, pilots, and controlled experiments; curate and analyze administrative and award data; and help NSF leaders translate reliable findings into improved policies and practices.
Furthering NSF’s mandate to pursue scientific merit and broader impact, the Office of Metascience may examine, among other subjects:
Approaches to identify and support high-risk, high-reward research; Methods to solicit, review, and select proposals; The speed, cost, and administrative burden of research funding processes; Structures, durations, sizes, and management practices for awards; Mechanisms to support investigators, early-career researchers, teams,
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