Research Assessment: Literature Analysis and Colloquium

在过去十年中，在使用国家科研管理工具方面积累了相当多的经验，包括战略规划、技术评估和绩效评估。作为这一集合的一个基本要素，项目层面的回顾性研究评估在大多数工业化国家（也许除了美国）受到决策者和管理者越来越多的关注。未来几年，美国可能对研究评估更感兴趣，本项目将对过去的评估研究提供系统的概述，并对过去评估结果的用途进行审查。该项目将分两个阶段进行：第一阶段，对过去研究中采用的方法进行编纂，第二阶段，对这些方法进行评估，并提出适合美国国情的改进建议。第二阶段将以在华盛顿特区举行的讨论会告终，与会者包括决策者、分析师、研究经理和评估专家。

Over the past decade, considerable experience has accumulated in using the tools of national research management, including strategic planning, technology assessment, and performance evaluation. As an essential element of this set, retrospective research assessment at the program level, has received increasing attention among decision makers and managers in most industrialized nations--except perhaps the United States. Research assessment is likely to be of greater interest in the United States in the years ahead and this project will provide a systematic overview of past assessment studies, plus an examination of the uses to which past assessment results have been put. The project will proceed in two phases: first, a codification of approaches taken in past studies, and second, an evaluation of those approaches with suggestions for improvement to fit the U.S. context. The second stage will culminate in a colloquium, to be held in Washington, D.C., involving decision makers, analysts, research managers, and assessment experts.