BPC-DP: Developing Shared Measures Among the BPC Community

计算社区为扩大计算参与（BPC）所做的努力有许多不同的形式，但最终，这些努力都是为了实现计算领域的多样性、公平性和包容性的共同目标。衡量这些努力的进展对于改进这些活动和评估其影响至关重要。然而，由于这些活动的差异，这种衡量是困难的。认识到在从事各种活动的组织之间衡量进展的挑战，这个BPC示范项目将产生共同的定义和框架，以便在BPC实践社区（包括BPC联盟和示范项目）之间进行可比性衡量。这些共享的框架和定义将促进整个BPC社区对BPC模型实践的学习。所有利益相关者，包括BPC联盟和示范项目，都对制定共同措施非常感兴趣。该项目将与现有的BPC联盟密切合作，代表BPC社区的努力，同时与示范项目、新的BPC联盟和其他积极致力于扩大参与的组织保持开放的沟通。通过提供共同的措施来了解BPC联盟和其他BPC干预措施的影响（例如，示范项目），这一项目将有助于努力增加这些努力打算支持的所有代表性不足的群体。这些包括被NSF确定为在计算中代表性不足的群体（即，妇女、残疾人、黑人和非裔美国人、西班牙裔、美洲印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民）以及其他基于其他身份而处于不利地位的人（例如，性取向）和社会经济背景等因素。该项目将产生一些工具和资源，以帮助长期维持这些努力。该项目的成果将增加我们对集体影响测量的知识，反映了参与BPC十多年的组织的累积经验。该项目将通过加强联盟之间的联系和合作，促进知识交流，并帮助BPC联盟进行能力建设，从而扩大其影响潜力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The computing community’s efforts to broaden participation in computing (BPC) take many different forms but ultimately, these efforts are all working toward the common goals of increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of computing. Measuring the progress of these efforts is critical in improving these activities and assessing their impact. However, such measurement is difficult given the variance of these activities. Recognizing the challenges of measuring progress across organizations that engage in a wide variety of activities, this BPC Demonstration Project will produce common definitions and a framework to enable comparable measurement across the BPC community of practice (including BPC Alliances and demonstration projects). These shared frameworks and definitions will facilitate learning across the BPC community about model practices for BPC. Development of shared measures is of great interest to all stakeholders, including the BPC Alliances and demonstration projects. This project will closely collaborate with the existing BPC Alliances to represent the efforts of the BPC community while also maintaining open communication with demonstration projects, new BPC Alliances, and others actively working in broadening participation. By providing shared measures for understanding the impact of BPC Alliances and other BPC interventions (e.g., demonstration projects), this project will benefit efforts to increase all underrepresented groups these efforts are intending to support. These include groups identified as underrepresented in computing by NSF (i.e., women, persons with disabilities, Blacks and African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders) as well as others who are disadvantaged based on other identities (e.g., sexual orientation) and factors such as socio-economic background. This project will result in a number of tools and resources to help sustain these efforts long-term. The outcomes of this project will add to our knowledge of collective impact measurement in a way that reflects the cumulative experiences of organizations who have been engaged in BPC for more than a decade. This project will enable knowledge exchange and assist in capacity building across BPC Alliances by strengthening the connections and collaboration among the Alliances and, therefore, expanding their potential for impact.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.