Preparing a Culturally Diverse and Culturally Responsive Generation of Evaluators: A Workshop to Design a Proposal for Advanced Training

本项目基于对公共资源加强问责、监督和管理的既定需求，特别是对联邦机构资助的科学、技术、工程、数学（STEM）教育学科的教育项目进行实质性评估的需求。项目所涉及的评价能力建设的一个特殊需求是需要更多文化上多样化和敏感的评价人员。然而，建立这样一个人才库的困难部分在于总体上缺乏研究生培训项目，特别是缺乏来自传统上代表性不足的群体的评估教师。这种能力建设的另一个障碍是缺乏高度发达的基于文化响应性评价的课程、课堂经验和实习经验框架。该项目建议将这样一个框架的发展提升到更高的层次，并产生一个有潜力的模式，在我们如何培训、评估和招聘研究生学位和非学位课程的评估人员方面进行重大创新，以便在文化背景下有效地工作。这一发展的机制是一个两阶段的计划，目前的项目是第一阶段。第一阶段的第一项活动是为期两天的研讨会，讨论在文化反应性评估中纳入相关招聘和培训的问题、挑战和战略。讲习班的参加者将是来自研究生学位和证书课程的代表，他们在招聘和培训文化反应性评价方面取得了成功。第二项活动首先是从活动中合成信息，并向国家科学基金会提交建议，以便利用该框架实施（并可能进行研究）高级培训。新资金的这一活动将构成第二阶段。

This project builds on an established need for greater accountability, oversight, and management of public resources and specifically the need for substantive evaluation in educational programs funded by federal agencies in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematic (STEM) education disciplines. A particular locus of need for evauluation capacity builing that the project addresses is the need for more culturally diverse and sensitive pool of evaluators. However, the difficulty in building such a pool rests in part of the dearth of graduate training programs in general and of faculty in evaluation from traditionally underrepresented groups in particular. An additional obstacle to such capacity building is the lack of highly dveloped frameworks for curricula, classroom experiences, and internship experiences that are grounded in culturally responsive evaluation. The project proposes to take development of such a framework to higher levels and to produce a model that has potential fo major innovations in how we train and levels and recruit evaluators in graduate degreee and non-degree programs to work effectiveley in cultural settings. The mechanism for this development is a two-phase plan of which the current project is phase one. The first activity in phase on is a two-day workshop to discuss issues, challenges, and strategies for including relevant recruitment and training in culturally responsive evaluation. Participants in the workshop will be representatives from graduate degree and certificate programs who have been successful in their recruitment of and training for culturally repsonsive evaluation. The second activity in the first place is the production of synthesis of information from the activity and a propsal for submission to the National Science Foundation for implementing (and presumably conducting research on) advanced training utilizing the framework. This activity in the new funding would constitute the second phase.