Conference Grant: Linking Communities to Advance Evaluation Capacity Building in Historically Black Colleges and Universities

这次会议的目的是让少数族裔服务机构(MSI)的一小群教员和专家在方案评估中分享经验教训；介绍嵌入土著文化经验的新的和不断发展的理论；并积极参与制定改进能力建设的战略途径，并持续应用响应性的文化适宜性评估。它还是一项需求评估，重点是从三个角度确定评估中所需的能力建设活动的参与者：他们自己、他们的机构和历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)。这笔赠款将是扩大国家科学基金会通过扩大评价能力建设参与倡议发起的活动的后续行动。拟议的会议还将为设计和修订战略/模式以及审查其使用情况奠定基础，以扩大代表不足的少数群体对科学、技术和经济评估的参与。

This conference intends to bring a small group of Minority Serving Institution (MSI) faculty and experts in program evaluation to share lessons learned; to present new and evolving theories embedded within indigenous cultural experiences; and, to actively engage in strategizing avenues for improving capacity building and sustaining the application of responsive culturally appropriate evaluations. It is also a needs assessment focused on participant identification of needed capacity building activities in evaluation from three perspectives: their own, their institution and across Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This grant would be a follow-up to expand previous activities initiated by NSF through the Broadening Participation Initiative in Evaluation Capacity Building. The proposed conference also would set the stage for designing and revising strategies/models and the review of their use for broadening participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM evaluation.