Development and Implementation of an Indicator Monitoring System for NSF's Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program [HBCU-UP]

系统研究公司提议为美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的历史黑人学院和大学本科项目（HBCU-UP）开发和实施一个进度指标监测系统。自1998年该计划启动以来，HBCU-UP为科学，数学，工程和技术（SMET）教学和推广计划的可持续改进提供了基础。与NSF内的其他种族多样性持续项目一样，HBSU-UP的总体目标是增加未被充分代表的少数民族的数量，为参与和领导SMET劳动力做好准备。该计划强调实施全面的制度方法来加强SMET的教学，主要侧重于改善本科课程的获得、保留和毕业，包括高中到大学、两年制和四年制大学、本科和研究生学习以及从大学到工作场所的过渡。《政府绩效与结果法》（GPRA, 1993）要求联邦机构对项目结果负责；HBSU计划已被归类为本科生支持的一部分，以扩大参与，主要目标是增加学士学位获得者的数量。HBCU-UP项目还直接针对白宫1993年11月1日关于传统黑人学院和大学的倡议所确定的目标，即“持续改进传统黑人学院和大学的科学、数学、工程和技术（SMET）教学和推广项目”。在HBCU-UP目标和相关GPRA要求的背景下，系统研究建议基于HBCU-UP目标和目的、项目活动和组成部分、自我评估和评估问题，开发和实施HBCU-UP指标监测系统（IMS），旨在协助对各个站点的进度和整体项目有效性进行自我评估。第一年将致力于框架的设计、IMS原型仪器的开发以及选定的HBCU站点的现场测试。从第二年开始，IMS仪器将在研讨会期间交付给hbcu。讲习班还将为机构数据管理人员设计，以交流指标管理方面的想法，并加强所收集数据的完整性。在第二年收集的数据将汇编成一份两卷本的事实手册。自1995年以来，系统研究通过参与由美国国家科学基金会和美国国家航空航天局资助的卓越示范机构计划（MIE），与少数民族服务机构（包括一些HBCU）合作，积累了丰富的经验。系统研究开发了一个进度指标数据库，MSET （MIE自我评估模板），基于MIE项目有效性的概念和操作框架。MIE计划的目标与HBCU-UP非常相似：加强少数族裔服务机构（hbcu、西班牙裔服务机构和部落学院和大学）在SMET教育和本科研究方面的基础设施，并增加攻读高级SMET学位的学生人数。系统研究将分发一份两卷本的HBCU事实手册：一卷用于总体进展，另一卷用于个别站点的进展。出版的报告将以三种格式提供：硬拷贝、CD-ROM和网络版本。系统研究还将主办一个网站，以促进参与的hbcu之间的沟通和网络。

Systemic Research, Inc. proposes to develop and implement a progress indicator monitoring system for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP). Since the inception of the program in 1998, HBCU-UP has provided a foundationfor sustainable improvements of science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) instructional and outreach programs. Along with other ethnic diversity continuum programs within NSF, the overarching goal of HBSU-UP is to increases the number of underrepresented ethnic minorities well prepared for participation and leadership in the SMET workforce. The program emphasized the implementation of comprehensive institutional approaches to strengthen SMET teaching and learning primarily focusing on improvement of access, retention, and graduation from undergraduate programs, including the transition between high school and college, 2- and 4- year colleges, undergraduate and graduate studies, and from college to the workplace. The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA, 1993) mandates that Federal agencies account for program results; the HBSU program has been classified as part of undergraduate support for broadening participation with the primary goal of increasing the number of baccalaureate recipients. The HBCU-UP program also directly aims at the goals defined by the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (November 1, 1993) , "sustainable improvements of science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) instructional and outreach programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities."Within the context of HBCU-UP goals and relevant GPRA requirements, Systemic Research proposes to develop and implement a HBCU-UP indicator monitoring system (IMS) based on HBCU-UP goals and objectives, project activities and components, and self-evaluation and assessment questions designed to assist in self-assessment of the individual sites' progress, as well as overall program effectiveness. The first year will be devoted to the design of the framework, development of prototype IMS instruments, and field-testing with selected HBCU sites. Beginning in the second year, the IMS instruments will be delivered to HBCUs during a workshop. The workshop will also be designed for institutional data managers to share ideas in indicator management and to enhance the integrity of collected data. The data collected during the second year will be compiled into a two volume Fact Book.Since 1995, Systemic Research has had extensive experience working with minority serving institutions, including a few HBCU's, through it's involvement in NSF's Model Institution for Excellence Program (MIE) funded by NSF and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Systemic Research developed a progress indicator database, MSET (MIE Self-Evaluation Template), based on a conceptual and operational framework for MIE program effectiveness. The MIE program goal is very similar to that of HBCU-UP: to strengthen the infrastructure of minority serving institutions (HBCUs, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities) in SMET education and undergraduate research, and to increase the number of students who pursue advanced SMET degrees.Systemic Research will disseminate a two volume HBCU Fact Book: one for overall progress, and the other for individual sites' progress. The published reports will be available in three formats: hard copy, CD-ROM, and web version. Systemic Research will also host a web site to promote communications andnetworking among the participating HBCUs.