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8 Additional Discussion by Workshop Participants
8 Additional Discussion by Workshop Participants
Pages 59-67
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NSF also needs to engage the U.S. research community in a discussion of what it wants from its science and technology infrastructure; it should not think of itself in isolation from these other organizations.
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The industrial speakers discussed how they have responded, but those forces are affecting NSF and research universities differently than industry. There is a great tendency, a great pressure, especially with the end of the Cold War, for NSF to spread its support of research uniformly.
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One of the reasons that research programs in global environmental change are in trouble in Congress is that there has been very little communication between the research scientists, especially physical research scientists who are trying to determine how the earth system functions, and other stakeholders around the country who are interested, from their different applications perspectives, in what is happening to the environment. Thus, one of the values of an environmental data and information network would be to provide a mechanism for the research community to communicate on an ongoing basis with the people who conduct policy assessments and other kinds of assessments that depend on this scientific research.
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Members of Congress do not want to be mired in this, nor do researchers or NSF, but it would be a simple additional step to try to use such information to clarify the significance of the results according to established criteria. If one looks at peer review of proposed research, more often than not, when you actually read the reviews, they turn out not to be forward-looking evaluations of the proposed research, no matter what was written.
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The study identified six metrics that the Air Force labs could use to evaluate their research programs. The characteristics that were used to evaluate these measures were whether they were indirect or direct measures, whether they were input oriented or outcome oriented, whether they were quantitative or qualitative, and whether they would be costly or inexpensive to implement.
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But, in a way, the National Science Foundation has a uniquely favored position at the moment. There is a predisposition to believe that NSF does something good and useful and that there is intrinsic value to basic research.
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Dates apply to horizontal bars, but not to arrows showing transfer of ideas and people. (Reprinted from Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, Evolving the HPCCI to Support the Nation 's Information Infrastructure, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1995.)
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Rhetorical strategies can have consequences, because people may be more credulous or respond differently than those who design the strategies initially expect. Another point is that we have a large set of measurements in the research arena, but they are primarily input measurements.
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