DCL: NSF INCLUDES Conference - Collaborative Research: Envisioning Impact

DCL：NSF 包括会议 - 协作研究：展望影响

• 批准号: 1650289
• 负责人: Kevin Brown
• 金额: $ 15.24万
• 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: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-10-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1650289&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DCL; NSF; INCLUDES; Conference; Collaborative

This award supports a conference that will inform the design of "backbone" organizations for the NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science) program. NORC at the University of Chicago (an independent research institution that delivers reliable data and rigorous analyses to guide programmatic and policy decisions) and TERC (a nonprofit education research and development organization based in Cambridge, MA, dedicated to improving STEM learning for all) collaborate on Envisioning Impact, a two-part in-person and virtual event that will inform the design of INCLUDES Alliance and National Network backbone organizations. The objectives of the conference are to: (1) facilitate a shared vision of impact for INCLUDES broadening participation projects and program; (2) stimulate discourse on key elements of a shared measurement system for continuous improvement and outcome assessment; and (3) inform decisions on the infrastructure and priority services INCLUDES backbone organizations will provide to assist grantees (and others) in assessing progress towards collective impact. The conference will bring members of three communities together: PIs and evaluators of INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilots; investigators and evaluators of other NSF-supported broadening participation alliances, extension projects, and other collective efforts to support inclusion and diversity in STEM; and members of prior and extant NSF-supported knowledge-networking, collaboratory, and resource network initiatives. Members of these communities will collaborate in two separate events: an in-person, 1.5 day conference, and a follow-on virtual Video Hall that will allow a larger number of participants to engage, over a one week period, in facilitated community discourse around short video narratives produced by each project.

该奖项支持召开一次会议，该会议将为 NSF INCLUDES（工程和科学领域代表性不足的发现者学习者社区包容性）项目的“骨干”组织设计提供信息。芝加哥大学的 NORC（一家独立研究机构，提供可靠的数据和严格的分析来指导计划和政策决策）和 TERC（一家位于马萨诸塞州剑桥的非营利教育研究和开发组织，致力于改善所有人的 STEM 学习）合作展望影响力，这是一个由现场和虚拟两部分组成的活动，将为 INCLUDES 联盟和国家网络骨干组织的设计提供信息。会议的目标是：(1) 促进就包括扩大参与项目和计划在内的影响达成共同愿景； (2) 激发关于持续改进和成果评估的共享衡量系统关键要素的讨论； (3) 为有关基础设施和优先服务的决策提供信息，包括骨干组织将提供的协助受赠者（和其他人）评估集体影响进展的信息。会议将汇集三个社区的成员： PI 和 INCLUDES 设计和开发启动试点的评估者； NSF 支持的其他扩大参与联盟、推广项目和其他支持 STEM 包容性和多样性的集体努力的调查员和评估员；以及先前和现有 NSF 支持的知识网络、合作和资源网络计划的成员。这些社区的成员将在两项单独的活动中进行合作：一场为期 1.5 天的面对面会议，以及后续的虚拟视频厅，该视频厅将允许更多的参与者在一周内参与到围绕以下主题的便利社区讨论中：每个项目制作的短视频叙述。