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Beatriz Chu Clewell has been involved in evaluation practice over several decades. Much of her work has focused on breaking barriers and moving more women and underrepresented minorities into the technology and science workforce. While Clewell may not be well known in the academic evaluation community, she is very well known in the NSF, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), and evaluation practice communities. Clewell spent over 20 years conducting research on the access of underrepresented groups—specifically, racial/ethnic minorities and women—to science, mathematics, and engineering fields. She was a principal research associate at the Urban Institute, from 1994 to 2008, where she directed the Evaluation Studies and Equity Research Program in the Education Policy Center and led several large-scale research projects and program evaluations.

Clewell has conducted a number of evaluations of teacher recruitment programs, including the Pathways to Teaching Careers Program, for which data on 42 programs and close to 3,000 participants over a six-year period were collected. The aim of many of these evaluations was to identify the policies and practices that characterize schools where all students achieve. She has also conducted multiple evaluations of national programs to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM.

Further, Clewell led an analysis of data to determine the effect of teacher race/ethnicity on student achievement in mathematics and reading, an evaluation of the NSF’s Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program involving 27 alliances of approximately 200 institutions nationwide. The aim of many of Clewell’s evaluations was to identify policies and practices that inhibited or encouraged access of women and minorities to fields where they were underrepresented. Her impact on the STEM evaluation community is immense.