Describing and Assessing the Outcomes of Institutional Reform Initiatives

美国高等教育协会（AAHE）将于1998年秋季组织和主办一个制度变革研究所，面向那些将在科学、数学、工程和技术（SMET）学科改革的基础上实施制度变革的学院和大学的团队。该项目包括审查和传播关于促进这些机构和其他机构内体制变革的评估和改革做法的资料。该研究所有四个主要目的：(1)从过去和当前的举措中交流经验教训；(2)扩大对评估和改革策略的认识；(3)建立一个由其SMET学科对体制改革有贡献的学校组成的网络；(4)鼓励进一步的体制改革。该研究所将以主题演讲或小组讨论、小组讨论和参与者的海报会议为特色。这个论坛提供了讨论个别机构评估想法的机会。研训所的一项中心活动将是使各小组有机会考虑如何确定该机构改革努力的成功，并利用全体会议和讨论会上关于评价和评价的做法起草评价计划。1998年秋季研修班结束后，参加研修班的学校将在1999年美国高等教育学会评估会议上留出课程时间，向跨学科的听众传播他们的进展情况。在该研究所成立之前，AAHE公报将刊登有关该研究所的材料，而在该研究所成立之后，《研究所变化》杂志将发表一篇关于SMET学科机构改革的文章。主要出版物将是关于研究所的专著，其中将包括会议上代表的观点。

The American Association for Higher Education(AAHE) is organizing and hosting an Institutional Change Institute in Fall 1998 for teams from colleges and universities that will have implemented institutional changes based on reform in science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) disciplines. The project includes an examination and the dissemination of information about assessment and reform practices that have contributed to institutional change within these and other institutions. The Institute has four central purposes: (1) exchanging lessons from past and current initiatives, (2) expanding knowledge of assessment and reform strategies, (3) building a network of schools whose SMET disciplines are contributing to institutional reform, and (4) encouraging further institutional change. The Institute will be characterized by keynote speakers or panels, small group discussions, and poster sessions by participants. This forum provides opportunities to discuss assessment ideas of individual institutions. A central activity of the Institute will be opportunities for the teams to consider how they will determine the success of the institution's reform efforts, and to draft evaluation plans, using practices described in plenary and discussion sessions about assessment and evaluation. After the Fall 1998 institute, participating schools will have program slots set aside at the 1999 AAHE Assessment Conference to disseminate information about their progress to a cross disciplinary audience. Prior to the Institute the AAHE Bulletin will feature material about Institute and after the Institute Change magazine will publish an article about institutional reform in the SMET disciplines. The major publication will be a monograph following the Institute, which will include perspectives represented at the conference.