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

续美国(美国)经济竞争力和在技术和科学领域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。确保这一关键的劳动力队伍广泛包括具有相关能力和技能的个人，需要一个高度适应性的、联网的跨学科教育协作系统，以及创新的就业准备战略、计划和方法。这种方法构成了科学家和工程师、教育工作者、培训者、创新网络、实验室、研究机构和雇主的伙伴关系。这份科学政策研究报告解决了这些问题，详细说明了在服务不足的人群中更多地参与STEM领域的障碍和机会，重点是残疾人和高科技行业和非政府雇主。对相关研究的不同应用进行了研究，例如将在服役过程中致残的退伍军人纳入其中，并接受了适用的教育和培训，这些退伍军人可以成为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没有意识到或没有积极参与STEM创新者的社交网络，相反，技术创新者可能没有充分考虑这些人。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，为创新最佳做法和纳入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，它分析了相关的研究和政策方法，并希望为相关政府议程的制定和决策提供参考。许多关于残疾人参与STEM的研究倾向于强调特定的残疾特征。在国家科学基金会赞助的2016年扩大参与科学研讨会(SoBP)期间产生的研究结果的基础上，该项目采取了更广泛的跨学科视角，考察了一系列社会、经济、方法、体制和政策背景。报告指出了在缺乏服务的人群中增加STEM领域参与度的障碍和机会以及政策方法，解决了开发和培养合格、多样化和灵活的美国STEM劳动力的新方法的必要性。该报告阐明了开发工具和方法的框架，以了解协作创新网络的作用，鼓励残疾人参与STEM。报告探讨了可加强更广泛参与的研究，并阐述了有针对性的努力将是有价值的领域，包括一个工具包，用于在知识转让和缩小知识-做法差距的背景下评估创新做法和组织结构，以及可持续地设计由创新节点和研究人员组成的专业包容性创新网络，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，在适当的规模上培育有意义的项目，并发展一个由导师、倡导者和其他人组成的网络，以向SoBP社区和其他利益相关者提供信息。该工具包与迭代观察站方法相结合，允许自下而上的洞察，具体针对地区背景、文化和人口需求，促进有利的结果。

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.