Broadening Participation: Developing STEM Community Metrics

美国国家科学院请求支持制定衡量标准，以判断代表人数不足的群体在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教育和职业方面的参与和进步情况。该项目将由美国国家工程院负责。这项建议是基于科学和工程机会平等委员会(CEOSE)在其2004年提交给国会的关于“扩大美国科学和工程劳动力的参与”的报告中提出的四项建议(([1]，第7-8页)。这些建议中有两项专门针对鼓励国家科学基金会受赠人的问责：问责。国家科学基金会应扩大其系统和客观的评估，以评估、了解和报告其计划和政策在扩大参与度方面的有效性和影响：a.继续获取、改进和分解相关数据和因素；来自代表性不足群体的人参与STEM教育和职业；b.与STEM社区合作，制定具体的目标、时间表、指标，并利用它们来激励、跟踪和追究受资助机构对进展的责任；以及c.在适当的情况下，建立与扩大参与纳入NSF计划设计和问责期望有关的评估和结果报告。政策杠杆。NSF应继续采用和设计新的政策杠杆，使主要调查人员及其机构的注意力集中在更广泛的影响标准的多样性方面，将多样性目标嵌入他们的研究中，并设计和实施可持续的制度变革，以帮助STEM在各级变得更具吸引力和更多地支持妇女、代表性不足的少数群体和残疾人。活动将包括：1.与NSF工作人员合作，酌情确定一个10人工作组，他们共同代表NSF的主管和受赠者学科--(BIO、CEISE、EHR、ENG、GEO、MPS、SBE)以及NSF的受赠者机构多样性，例如，研究型大学、学士学位学院、社区学院、少数民族服务机构等，并在努力扩大科学和工程劳动力的参与方面有直接经验；2.对学术、商业和政府环境中用于评估参与广度的现有指标进行文献审查；3.召集工作组初步确定指标，以判断在STEM中代表性不足的群体在确定、吸引、参与、支持和维持参与方面所做的努力，以及此类人员的实际参与情况：4.与适当的社区共享制定的指标；5.完善最终的综合指标集；6.向STEM社区广泛传播项目结果。

The National Academy of Sciences requests support for the development of metrics by which to judge the participation and advancement of persons from underrepresented groups in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education and careers. The project will be conducted by the National Academy of Engineering. This proposal is based on four recommendation made by the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE) in its 2004 report to Congress on "Broadening Participation in America's Science and Engineering Workforce," ( ([1], pp. 7-8). Two of these recommendations were specifically directed at encouraging accountability among NSF's grantee population:Accountability. NSF should expand its systematic and objective evaluationto assess, understand, and report the effectiveness and impact of its programsand policies on broadening participation by: a. continuing to obtain, refine, and disaggregate data and factors related; to the participation of persons from underrepresented groups in STEMeducation and careers; b. Working with the STEM community to develop specific goals, timelines,metrics, and using them to motivate, track and hold grantee institutions accountable for progress; and c. Building assessment and outcome reporting related to broadening participation into NSF program design and accountability expectations, where appropriate.Policy Levers. NSF should continue to employ and design new policy levers that focus the attention of principle investigators and their institutions on diversity aspects of the broader impacts criterion, on embedding diversity goals in their research, and on designing and implementing sustainable institutional change that helps STEM become more inviting and supportive of women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities at all levels.Activities will include: 1. Identify in collaboration with NSF staff as appropriate, a ten member working group who are collectively representative of NSF's directorates and grantee disciplines - (BIO, CISE, EHR, ENG, GEO, MPS, SBE) as well as NSF's grantee institutional diversity, e.g., research universities, baccalaureate colleges, community colleges, minority serving institutions, etc. and directly experienced in efforts to broaden participation in the science and engineering workforce; 2. Conduct a literature review of existing metrics for assessing breadth of participation used in academic, business, and government environments; 3. Convene the working group to preliminarily identify metrics to judge efforts to identify, attract, engage, support and sustain participation by groups underrepresented in STEM, as well as the actual participation of such persons: 4. Share the metrics developed with the appropriate communities; 5. Refine a final set of integrated metrics; 6. Broadly disseminate project findings to the STEM community.