Scaffolding NSF CISE REU Site Evaluation Through Comparative and Longitudinal Tracking

通过比较和纵向跟踪搭建 NSF CISE REU 现场评估

• 批准号: 2036717
• 负责人: Burcin Campbell
• 金额: $ 54.2万
• 依托单位: Computing Research Association
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2036717&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scaffolding; NSF; CISE; REU; Site

The Computing Research Association will examine the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites funded by the CISE Directorate to evaluate their effectiveness, particularly for students from demographic groups that underrepresented in computing. The field of computing is facing challenges in terms of building a diverse domestic talent pool. Various interventions are implemented to address this issue. Creating opportunities for undergraduate students to engage with their field of study through participation in research experiences is one of the ways for building students’ interest and retaining them in their field. These research experiences are also beneficial for retaining students from demographic groups that are underrepresented in computing. Through this evaluation, the results of this project will help to improve the undergraduate research experiences and enhance their impact. Further, the insights gleaned from the increased scope of research and reporting will provide a nationally recognized resource for STEM education that informs the national community about long term trends and effective practices for diversity and inclusion in computing. By informing the computing community about these evidence-based best practices, with attention given to practices that are especially impactful for the success of underrepresented student groups within computing (e.g., women, students of color, etc.), the project outcomes will help enhance the impact of REU participation, resulting in a stronger and more diverse pool of domestic talent in the field of science and engineering. The REU Evaluation Project (REP) is intended to assess the impact of CISE REU programs on the participants and establish an infrastructure for the sustainable and scalable evaluation of REU programs going forward. The REP will build on an existing NSF-funded project, CISE REU Toolkit, that has been evaluating CISE REUs since 2009. The unique contribution of REP is its ability to harness other data collection efforts specific to computing that will provide a higher-level and larger-scale comparative analysis of the CISE REU program. For evaluating the REUs, the project will collect survey data from the students participating in NSF CISE REUs and site-specific information from the REU PIs. This evaluation will be combining pre-post and comparative methods to provide a multi-dimensional look into the impact of REU participation. The results from the evaluation will be shared with the REU site PIs and NSF Program Officers through annual reports. This project will also establish a data collection and evaluation infrastructure based on another national level project, CRA Data Buddies Survey, run by the project team. Such an infrastructure to conduct this type of evaluation at scale will enable sustainable monitoring of the success of REUs going forward. Collecting systematic data through this infrastructure annually will enable the investigators to track REU participants as they progress in their career. At a higher level, results generated through this project will contribute to our understanding of how undergraduate research programs support students’ academic and research career development. Additionally, this project’s focus on understanding what aspects of REU programs encourage the success of student groups considered underrepresented in computing (e.g., women, students of color, etc.) contributes knowledge and evidence-based best practices that support the computing community’s efforts to broaden participation in computing.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.

计算研究协会将研究由CISE局资助的本科生（REU）网站评估其有效性的研究经验，特别是对于来自计算中代表性不足的人群群体的学生。计算领域在建立潜水员国内人才库方面面临着挑战。实施各种干预措施来解决此问题。为本科生创造机会通过参与研究经验而参与研究领域的机会是建立学生兴趣并将其保留在自己的领域中的方法之一。这些研究经验也有助于保留计算中人口不足的人群群体的学生。通过此评估，该项目的结果将有助于改善本科研究经验并增强其影响。此外，从增加的研究范围和报告范围中收集的见解将为STEM教育提供全国认可的资源，以告知民族社区的长期趋势和有效的多样性和计算中的有效实践。通过向计算社区告知这些基于证据的最佳实践，对实践的关注特别影响，这些实践对计算机中代表性不足的学生群体的成功（例如，女性，有色人种等）的成功，该项目的结果将有助于增强REU参与的影响，从而导致更强大的科学领域的国内人才库，从而提高REU的影响。 REU评估项目（REP）旨在评估CISE REU计划对参与者的影响，并为未来REU计划的可持续和可扩展评估建立基础架构。代表将建立在现有的NSF资助的项目Cise REU工具包上，该项目自2009年以来一直在评估Cise Reus。代表的独特贡献在于其利用针对计算的其他数据收集工作的能力，该工作将为CISE REU计划提供更高级别和更大级别的比较分析。为了评估REUS，该项目将从参与NSF CISE REUS的学生那里收集调查数据，并从REU PIS中收集特定于现场的信息。该评估将结合前期和比较方法，以提供对REU参与影响的多维观察。评估的结果将通过年度报告与REU网站PIS和NSF计划官员共享。该项目还将根据项目团队运行的另一个国家级别项目CRA数据伙伴调查建立数据收集和评估基础架构。这样的基础设施以大规模进行此类评估，将使Reus的成功进行可持续的监控。每年通过此基础架构收集系统数据将使研究人员能够在REU参与者的职业发展中跟踪他们。在更高的层次上，该项目产生的结果将有助于我们对本科研究计划如何支持学生的学术和研究职业发展的理解。此外，该项目的重点是理解REU计划的哪些方面鼓励学生团体的成功不足在计算中的代表性不足（例如妇女，颜色学生等）贡献了知识和基于证据的最佳实践，这些实践支持计算社区努力扩大计算参与的努力，以扩大计算奖励，这对NSF的法定任务且通过评估的范围而构成了良好的构成范围，这是一位精彩的构成者的范围。