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Best Practices

  1. NSF Broader Impact Criterion: Examples

    http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf022/bicexamples.pdf

  2. Recomendations by reviewers for applicants and mentors in the NSF Graduate Fellowship program

    http://www.advising.jhu.edu/scholarships/infopages/NSFGRFfinal.pdf

    Exerpt:

    The effective integration of research and education does not mean studying a particular topic from the book, and then seeing it in action in the lab, nor does serving as a grader or teaching assistant in one's department demonstrate excellence in this regard. Panel members looked for original, self-motivated contributions by applicants to science education, such as the development of new or innovative teaching materials, significant volunteer work with science in local schools or an extraordinary level of departmental service. Potential contributions to diversity refer to increasing the diversity of the US population entering science or knowledgeable about it, not to increasing the diversity of the applicant s scientific or other interests (an unfortunate but recurring misunderstanding). Helping one or two minority or female fellow-students after class hardly constitutes real distinction here, and being a minority applicant does not automatically fulfill this criterion. The panel looks for impact e.g., taking science to underrepresented groups in the population through work with public or independent schools, club activity, college- or university-based programs, or summer work. Initiating science activity and effective advocacy for science education are highly valued. A minority applicant might not only engage in such activity but also, through it, serve as a role model to attract others toward scientific interests. Likewise, contributions to community may include organizing or working with department-based initiatives, with science museums, or with students through independent programs. Applicants and their mentors should think in terms of making a real difference in the lives of others.

  3. National Academy of Science Report -- Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers (1995)

    http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/grad/

  4. The American Astronomical Society's Examination of Graduate Education in Astronomy

    http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v29n5/edrpt.html

  5. National Academy of Science Report -- Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experince for Scientists and Engineers

  6. NASA/STSCI IDEAS Grant Lessons Learned (K-12)

    http://ideas.stsci.edu/Lessons.shtml

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