Collaborative Research: Science Policy Research Report: A Research Agenda for Science of Broadening Participation (SoBP) 2.0: STEM Employment of People with Disabilities

合作研究：科学政策研究报告：扩大参与科学（SoBP）2.0的研究议程：残疾人的STEM就业

• 批准号: 1732137
• 负责人: Connie L McNeely
• 金额: $ 1.67万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1732137&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Science; Policy; Report

Continued United States (U.S.) economic competitiveness and global leadership in technology and science necessitate a well-prepared science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Ensuring that this critical workforce is broadly inclusive of individuals with relevant capabilities and skills requires a highly adaptive, networked system of interdisciplinary educational collaboration, and innovative employment preparation strategies, programs, and approaches. This approach constitutes a partnership of scientists and engineers, educators, trainers, innovation networks, laboratories, research institutions, and employers. This science policy research report addresses these issues, detailing barriers and opportunities for increasing participation in STEM fields among under-served populations, focusing on people with disabilities and high technology industry and non-government employers. Distinct applications of related research are studied, such as the inclusion of veterans who became disabled in the line of service, and with applicable education and training, could be new participants in the STEM workforce. This is especially important as both these populations might not be aware of, or not actively involved in social networks of STEM innovators, and conversely technology innovators might not fully consider these individuals. The report explores new frameworks, decision support tools, dissemination design parameters, and knowledge-generating communities to provide lessons learned and guidance for innovative best practices and inclusion in STEM disciplines. Addressing the under-representation of people with disabilities in STEM fields, it offers an analysis of relevant research and policy approaches and looks to inform related government agenda setting and decision making.Much research on the STEM participation of people with disabilities has tended to emphasize specific disability characteristics. Building upon findings generated during the 2016 Symposium on the Science of Broadening Participation (SoBP), sponsored by the National Science Foundation, this project takes a wider, interdisciplinary perspective, looking a range of social, economic, methodological, institutional, and policy contexts. Identifying barriers and opportunities for increasing participation in STEM fields among under-served populations and policy approaches, the report addresses the need for novel approaches to developing and nurturing a qualified, diverse, and agile U.S. STEM workforce. The report articulates a framework for developing tools and approaches to understand the role of collaborative networks of innovation that encourage STEM participation of individuals with disabilities. The report explores research that can enhance broadened participation, and addresses areas in which targeted efforts would be valuable, including a toolkit for assessing innovative practices and organizational structures in the context of knowledge transfer and closing knowledge-practice gaps, and a sustainable design for a Professional Inclusive Innovation Network (PIIN) of innovation nodes and researchers to test inclusive practices. The PIIN presents the SoBP community with an opportunity to capture relevant research and policy data, cultivate meaningful programs at the appropriate scale, and develop a network of mentors, advocates, and others to inform the SoBP community and other stakeholders. The toolkit coupled with an iterative observatory approach allows for bottom-up insights that speak specifically to regional context, culture, and population needs, promoting favorable outcomes.

美国（U.S.）经济竞争力和技术与科学的全球领先地位需要一支准备充分的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）劳动力队伍。确保这一关键的劳动力是广泛的个人与相关能力和技能的包容性，需要一个高度适应性，跨学科教育合作的网络系统，创新的就业准备战略，计划和方法。这一方法构成了科学家和工程师、教育工作者、培训人员、创新网络、实验室、研究机构和雇主之间的伙伴关系。这份科学政策研究报告解决了这些问题，详细介绍了在服务不足的人群中增加STEM领域参与的障碍和机会，重点关注残疾人和高科技行业以及非政府雇主。研究了相关研究的不同应用，例如将在服务中致残的退伍军人包括在内，并通过适用的教育和培训，可以成为STEM劳动力的新参与者。这一点尤其重要，因为这两个群体可能不知道或不积极参与STEM创新者的社交网络，相反，技术创新者可能不会充分考虑这些人。该报告探讨了新的框架、决策支持工具、传播设计参数和知识生成社区，为创新的最佳实践和纳入STEM学科提供经验教训和指导。针对残疾人在STEM领域代表性不足的问题，本报告分析了相关研究和政策方法，并希望为相关政府议程制定和决策提供信息。关于残疾人参与STEM的许多研究往往强调残疾人的具体特征。基于2016年由美国国家科学基金会赞助的“扩大参与科学研讨会”（SoBP）的研究结果，该项目采用了更广泛的跨学科视角，研究了一系列社会，经济，方法，制度和政策背景。该报告确定了在服务不足的人群和政策方法中增加STEM领域参与的障碍和机会，解决了开发和培养合格，多样化和灵活的美国STEM劳动力的新方法的需求。该报告阐述了一个框架，用于开发工具和方法，以了解鼓励残疾人参与STEM的合作创新网络的作用。该报告探讨了可以加强广泛参与的研究，并探讨了有针对性的努力将是有价值的领域，包括在知识转让和缩小知识与实践差距的背景下评估创新做法和组织结构的工具包，以及由创新节点和研究人员组成的专业包容性创新网络的可持续设计，以测试包容性做法。PIIN为SoBP社区提供了一个获取相关研究和政策数据的机会，以适当的规模培养有意义的项目，并建立一个导师，倡导者和其他人的网络，以告知SoBP社区和其他利益相关者。该工具包与迭代观测方法相结合，允许自下而上的见解，特别是针对区域背景，文化和人口需求，促进有利的结果。