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This quantitative study examines U.S. faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students engaged in education and science/engineering collaborations. Exploratory factor analysis validates two modified scales—Collaboration Perceptions and Interdisciplinarity Perceptions—showing strongly positive attitudes and no demographic differences. 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[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \nMeasuring the Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration Perceptions  \nof U.S. Scientists, Engineers, and Educators  \nKatherine R. McCance  \nThe University of Texas, San Antonio  \nMargaret Blanchard  \nNorth Carolina State University  \nInterdisciplinarity has the potential to lead to more innovation and advances in knowledge than are possible from a single discipline. Yet, little is known about interdisciplinary collaborations and the perceptions of those involved. This quantitative study investigated the perceptions of U.S. faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students involved in education and science/ engineering collaborations. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted for two modified scales, Collaboration Perceptions (CP; n = 117; 17 items; α = .923) and Interdisciplinarity Perceptions (IP; n = 119; 11 items; α = .852). Participants’perceptions of collaboration and interdisciplinarity were strongly positive and did not significantly differ based on demographic factors (e.g., gender, discipline, role). Perceptions were influenced by collectivist orientation; the high collectivism group had significantly more positive perceptions of collaboration and interdisciplinarity, and collectivist orientation was positively and significantly correlated with CP and IP scores. Implications and recommendations for interdisciplinary collaborations will be discussed.  \nKeywords: collaboration, collectivism, factor analysis, higher education, interdisciplinary teaching and research, science education, STEM, survey research  \nIntroduction  \nSome of the most complex challenges in society lie at the intersection of multiple disciplines (Why Interdisciplinary Research Matters, 2015) . Addressing these issues requires experts across academic disciplines to work together. Interdisciplinary collaborations form when multiple and sometimes disparate disciplines are brought together by shared goals or tasks (Amey & Brown, 2004), ideally to spark ideas and generate novel approaches, such as a science or engineering faculty member who collaborates with an education faculty member on a grant-funded project.  \nInterdisciplinarity between the natural and social sciences has reportedly increased since the 1980s (Van Noorden, 2015) and is encouraged by various stakeholders (e.g., Lyall et al., 2013; National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine, 2005; NSF, 2017) . As an exemplary case, the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States had an annual budget of $8.5 billion in 2021, which funded nearly onequarter of all U.S. federally funded research conducted at institutions of higher education (NSF, n.d.) . Numerous NSF grant programs encourage “transformative” interdisciplinary research (NSF, 2017, p. 29). A 2015 survey revealed that  \nNSF reviewers perceived proposals for interdisciplinary work to have greater potential for broader impacts than proposals submitted from a single discipline (NSF, 2016) .  \nUniversities have made moves to increase collaboration and interdisciplinarity (Holley, 2009) . Some universities have established cluster hire programs to bring together faculty from different disciplines, clustered around a common research thematic area, to promote interdisciplinary collaborations that better align faculty members’research with “federal funding priorities” (Bloom et al., 2020, p. 755) . However, a recent survey of 199 cluster faculty members across twenty different universities reported that “cluster hire groups are often loosely organized, and members do not typically spend much time collaborating with others in their group”(p. 755) . The “paradox of interdisciplinar","cbCaiet3ROVHHe5P","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiet3ROVHHe5P","pdf",916274,21,"English","# Introduction\n## Interdisciplinary collaboration and its growth\n## Prior research on STEM and education collaborations\n## The study’s focus on perceptions","[{\"question\":\"What does the study investigate about interdisciplinary collaboration?\",\"answer\":\"It examines perceptions of collaboration and interdisciplinarity among U.S. faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students involved in education and science/engineering collaborations.\"},{\"question\":\"How were perceptions measured in the study?\",\"answer\":\"Exploratory factor analysis was used to evaluate two modified scales: Collaboration Perceptions (CP) and Interdisciplinarity Perceptions (IP), with high internal consistency.\"},{\"question\":\"Did demographics affect collaboration and interdisciplinarity perceptions?\",\"answer\":\"No. Perceptions were strongly positive overall and did not significantly differ based on demographic factors such as gender, discipline, or role.\"},{\"question\":\"What factor influenced perceptions the most?\",\"answer\":\"Collectivist orientation. The high collectivism group reported significantly more positive collaboration and interdisciplinarity perceptions, and collectivism correlated positively with CP and IP scores.\"}]","Measuring the Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration Perceptions of U.S. Scientists, Engineers, and Educators | PDF",1792069185,53]