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This quiz is designed to test your knowledge and highlight key aspects of the NSF CAREER award.  This solicitation supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. It is one of the most prestigious awards for young faculty.  Read more at the NSF web site (link below), and then take the quiz. The quiz is designed to highlight key aspects of the solicitation to help you plan your proposal. 

https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/career-faculty-early-career-development-program

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1. A well-written Intellectual Merit (IM) section addresses:
The potential to advance knowledge. What is known What is new What the research will add How the research will enable the field How the research will impact other fields Why the research is important All of the above.
2. Broader Impact (BI) is defined:
As a checklist of what or whom you will impact. As how many papers you will write. As the potential to benefit society and contribute to the achievement of specific, desired societal outcomes.
3. Select the *best* example of Broader Impact:
How you will single-handedly solve a grand challenge in the world. How you will write papers and advise students. Specific strategies by which you will extend past outreach and mentoring, enabled by the new award. Specific examples of how your research will advance the field towards specific and impactful metrics., Both 3 and 4.
4. CAREER proposals must integrate research and education.
True False
5. A good integration plan will (select the best answer):
Include a contingency plan. Require that the research cannot stand without the education plan, and vice versa. Use resources available to all researchers at your institution.
6. When writing your CAREER proposal, think about (select the best answer):
Fame and fortune. Why you need it to get tenure. How this proposal will serve as a foundation, such that in ~10 years, you will be a well recognized expert in your field.
7. CAREER proposals are reviewed by:
A panel of experts that are exactly in your field. Leaders in the field (typically) that have broad expertise. People that have seen you at conferences and know your work.
8. The following strategies will enhance my proposal success rate:
Thinking about my idea well in advance. Differentiating my work from my advisor. Training myself in panel dynamics by volunteering to review. Enhancing my visibility in the field through service. Building a network that is familiar with, and admires, my work. Providing a literature review that demonstrates I know prior work and the context of my problem. Providing justification to lead the reviewer to conclude that the work is potentially transformative. All of the above.
9. Which of the following is generally not a good strategy for a CAREER proposal:
Including a senior investigator that is critical to completion of the work. Failing to provide a contingency plan. Failing to provide any sort of preliminary data that shows you know what you're doing. Including a lot of derivations. Reviewers love that! It shows I'm smart! Assuming all reviewers are an expert in my field. Leaving out a critical and seminal paper. Failing to provide an outreach or integration plan. Treating the CAREER like other proposals. Starting the CAREER in June or July. Using equipment that is not readily accessible. This saves money and budget! All of the above.
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