Describing and Assessing the Outcomes of Institutional Reform Initiatives

美国高等教育协会将于1998年秋季组织和主办一个机构改革研究所，对象是将根据科学、数学、工程和技术学科的改革进行机构改革的学院和大学的小组。该项目包括审查和传播有关评估和改革做法的信息，这些做法有助于这些机构和其他机构的体制变革。该研究所有四个中心目标：（1）交流过去和当前举措的经验教训，（2）扩大评估和改革战略的知识，（3）建立一个学校网络，其SMET学科有助于体制改革，以及（4）鼓励进一步的体制改革。研究所的特点将是主旨发言人或小组讨论、小组讨论和与会者的海报会议。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，并利用全体会议和关于评估和评价的讨论会上介绍的做法起草评价计划。在1998年秋季研究所之后，参与的学校将在1999年AAHE评估会议上留出节目时段，向跨学科观众传播有关其进展的信息。在研究所成立之前，《AAHE公报》将刊登有关研究所的材料，在研究所成立之后，《研究所改革》杂志将发表一篇关于中小企业和技术培训学科体制改革的文章。主要出版物将是研究所会议之后的一本专著，其中将包括在会议上提出的观点。

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.