Enhancing and Sustaining the CISE REU Site Evaluation Toolkit

增强和维持 CISE REU 场地评估工具包

• 批准号: 1936534
• 负责人: Audrey Rorrer
• 金额: $ 16.59万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1936534&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Sustaining; CISE; REU; Site

This project provides long-term support for external evaluation activities and services for the Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) community. This project addresses the ongoing need among principal investigators who are conducting CISE REU Site program evaluation efforts by providing an evaluation toolkit that facilitates evaluation reporting while strengthening research about undergraduate research program outcomes. The primary purpose of the CISE REU Evaluation Toolkit is to provide targeted resources and tools for quality program evaluation that balance the desire for standardized assessment along with the responsibility to account for individual program contexts. This project aims to enhance the evaluation tools and resources and to provide for sustainability and maintenance of the resources. Services associated with the Toolkit are providing a Common Application for site recruiting, coordinating a Shared Applicant Pool for principal investigators to share applicants across sites, delivering an online student survey known as the A la Carte Student Survey,and providing an Alumni Tracker tool to assist sites with tracking their students after their participation in summer research at the site. The project also provides aggregate and site-specific analyses to REU Site principal investigators. The benefits of the Toolkit are in providing cost effective, sustainable evaluation tools, a community forum for program evaluation, and aggregate measurement of key program outcomes indicators. The key contribution of project is in the refinement of understanding evidence-based practices in evaluating undergraduate research programs to help faculty successfully manage these programs. The goals of the project include managing the various components of the Toolkit, providing analyses and summative annual reporting of the Evaluation Toolkit results, and providing timely, site-specific data packages of student results. The strength of this project comes from the strong research community of practice that has been nurtured by this project and the ongoing commitment to support and enhance the resources through this funding. The project contributes to understanding the impact of undergraduate computing research programs for both students and faculty participants. The comprehensive program evaluation will inform collective efforts to recruit and mentor undergraduate students involved in cutting-edge research. The knowledge generated by this study will also provide insights about how faculty engage in REU Sites and the impact on their careers.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.

该项目为计算机与信息科学与工程（CISE）本科生研究经验（REU）社区的外部评估活动和服务提供长期支持。该项目通过提供评估工具包来满足正在进行 CISE REU 站点项目评估工作的主要研究者的持续需求，该工具包可促进评估报告，同时加强对本科生研究项目成果的研究。 CISE REU 评估工具包的主要目的是为高质量项目评估提供有针对性的资源和工具，以平衡标准化评估的愿望和考虑个别项目背景的责任。该项目旨在增强评估工具和资源，并提供资源的可持续性和维护。 与该工具包相关的服务包括提供用于现场招聘的通用申请、协调主要研究人员的共享申请人库以跨站点共享申请人、提供称为点菜学生调查的在线学生调查，并提供校友跟踪工具来协助网站在学生参加该网站的夏季研究后对其进行跟踪。 该项目还向 REU 站点主要研究人员提供汇总和特定站点分析。该工具包的好处在于提供具有成本效益的可持续评估工具、项目评估社区论坛以及关键项目成果指标的综合衡量。该项目的主要贡献在于完善了评估本科研究项目的循证实践的理解，以帮助教师成功管理这些项目。该项目的目标包括管理工具包的各个组成部分，提供评估工具包结果的分析和总结性年度报告，以及提供及时的、针对特定地点的学生成绩数据包。 该项目的优势来自于该项目培育的强大的研究实践社区以及通过这笔资金支持和增强资源的持续承诺。该项目有助于了解本科计算机研究项目对学生和教师参与者的影响。全面的项目评估将为招募和指导参与前沿研究的本科生的集体努力提供信息。这项研究产生的知识还将提供关于教师如何参与 REU 网站及其对他们职业的影响的见解。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。