Development of Metrics to Assess the Impacts of Sexual Harassment Interventions in STEM Academic Environments

制定评估 STEM 学术环境中性骚扰干预措施影响的指标

• 批准号: 2050114
• 负责人: Lisa Davidson
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: National Opinion Research Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050114&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Metrics; Assess; Impacts; Sexual

This project aims to improve equity by developing a comprehensive "matrix of metrics" to evaluate anti-harassment interventions aimed at STEM faculty and graduate students. The metrics will consider the range of contextual and systemic factors that enable or hinder harassment, as well as the intersecting personal and professional identities of individuals involved. As institutions develop and implement anti-harassment trainings, policies and prevention mechanisms, a well-tested evaluative tool will be valuable, especially with a focus on institutions of higher education. Much of the evaluation research on anti-harassment trainings have focused on non-academic environments (corporations, military) and on programs developed for undergraduate students, and less so on other communities within academia and in STEM. The matrix of metrics will be the product of a four-phase research project: (1) conduct a series of in-depth qualitative interviews with key experts and stakeholders to learn about current anti-harassment efforts in STEM and their evaluation; (2) using information from those interviews, design and administer a survey to a broad and diverse array of institutions to gain further data about anti-harassment efforts and how those efforts are evaluated; (3) develop a matrix of metrics that institutions can use to evaluate anti-harassment efforts, and (4) convene a meeting of experts and stakeholders to review the results and further refine the matrix of metrics to maximize their usefulness. The resulting matrix of metrics should enable STEM institutions and departments to be wiser stewards of their resources, by helping to distinguish between effective and ineffective interventions. This project builds on and advances prior efforts to evaluate anti-harassment efforts in numerous ways: (1) it has a strong theoretical foundation based on social ecology theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) and intersectionality theory's matrix of power domains (Collins, 2000); (2) it is grounded in the specific empirical findings and recommendations for combating harassment in STEM academic settings issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering in 2018; (3) it addresses the larger, systemic factors contributing to harassment by encompassing metrics designed to assess departmental, institutional, and socio-cultural impacts, rather than just measuring individual attitudes and knowledge; and (4) it specifically recognizes that the incidence and impact of harassment vary based on the intersecting personal and professional characteristics of the individuals involved. The matrix of metrics will empower institutions to measure their anti-harassment efforts on a range of criteria that account for the numerous socio-cultural, institutional, departmental, interpersonal, and individual factors influencing the efficacy of anti-harassment interventions. The NSF ADVANCE program is designed to foster gender equity through a focus on the identification and elimination of organizational barriers that impede the full participation and advancement of diverse faculty in academic institutions. Organizational barriers that inhibit equity may exist in policies, processes, practices, and the organizational culture and climate.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.

该项目旨在通过开发全面的“指标矩阵”来评估针对STEM教职员工和研究生的反骚扰干预措施来提高公平。 指标将考虑对骚扰或阻碍骚扰的情境和系统因素，以及相关的个人和专业身份的范围。随着机构发展和实施反骚扰培训，政策和预防机制，经过良好测试的评估工具将是有价值的，尤其是重点是高等教育机构。关于反骚扰培训的大部分评估研究都集中在非学术环境（公司，军事）上，以及针对本科生开发的计划，而在学术界和STEM中的其他社区则较少。 指标矩阵将是四个阶段研究项目的产物：（1）与主要专家和利益相关者进行一系列深入的定性访谈，以了解当前的STEM及其评估的反骚扰工作； （2）使用这些访谈中的信息，设计和管理一项调查，向各种各样的机构进行调查，以获取有关反对骚扰工作以及如何评估这些努力的进一步数据； （3）开发了机构可以用来评估反骚扰工作的指标矩阵，（4）召集专家和利益相关者的会议，以审查结果并进一步完善指标矩阵以最大程度地提高其实用性。由此产生的指标矩阵应通过帮助区分有效和无效的干预措施，使STEM机构和部门能够更明智地管理其资源的管理者。 该项目以多种方式为基础，并在先前的努力中进行了以前的努力：（1）基于社会生态学理论（Bronfenbrenner，1979）和交叉性理论的权力领域矩阵（Collins，Collins，2000年），它具有强大的理论基础； （2）它是基于2018年美国国家科学，数学和工程学学院在STEM学术环境中打击骚扰的具体经验发现和建议； （3）它通过涵盖旨在评估部门，机构和社会文化影响的指标来解决造成骚扰的更大的系统因素，而不仅仅是衡量个人态度和知识； （4）它特别认识到，骚扰的发病率和影响因相关个人的个人和专业特征而有所不同。 指标的矩阵将授权机构在一系列标准上衡量其反骚扰工作，这些标准涉及众多社会文化，机构，部门，人际关系和个人因素，影响了反骚扰干预措施的功效。 NSF Advance计划旨在通过关注和消除阻碍各种教师在学术机构中的全面参与和进步的组织障碍来促进性别平等。 抑制平等的组织障碍可能存在于政策，过程，实践以及组织文化和气候中。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来支持的。