Unsolicited proposal: IUCRC Evaluation Project

主动提案：IUCRC 评估项目

• 批准号: 1140438
• 负责人: Denis Gray
• 金额: $ 67.37万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1140438&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Unsolicited; proposal; IUCRC; Evaluation; Project

IIP 1140438 North Carolina State University; Denis Gray IUCRC Evaluation Project The IUCRC program is comprised of over 50 centers with over 150 participating universities. These centers include over 750 industry members, 600 faculty scientists, 1000 graduate students and almost 250 undergraduate students. The current proposal requests support for a five-year award to support evaluation activities of the IUCRC Program. The proposed IUCRC Evaluation Project addresses both accountability and improvement evaluation issues and involves both program-level and center-level elements. The evaluation addresses three major objectives: 1) To help NSF and local centers objectively evaluate their impact by documenting IUCRC outcomes and accomplishments; 2) To promote continuous improvement by giving actionable, timely, data-based (formally collected and observational) feedback, analysis and advice to NSF and local centers; 3) To identify and communicate information about IUCRC best practices to NSF and local centers. Research and evaluation conducted through the IUCRC Evaluation Project in the past has made a significant contribution to a broadened understanding of cooperative research in general and industry/university centers in particular. The proposed work sets comparably ambitious goals and promises to make a contribution to the understanding of a variety of critical issues including the economic impact of IUCRCs, impact of IUCRCs on small firms, and human capital impacts of IUCRCs. The most unique characteristic of the IUCRC Evaluation Project is the emphasis placed on improvement evaluation for local center directors with timely evaluation data collected from key stakeholder groups. The project will be a training vehicle for the next generation of S&T evaluators by promoting high quality research opportunities for the graduate students supported by the project. Finally, the proposed work will continue to be very proactive in disseminating the findings to the broader scientific community by publishing the work in widely read and high quality journals. Further, all evaluation instruments, program reports, and student and faculty papers related to the program evaluation effort will be publicly available on the Program Evaluation Website housed on North Carolina State University servers (www.ncsu.edu/iucrc).

国际和平研究所，1140438北卡罗来纳州立大学；丹尼斯·格雷国际儿童权利委员会评估项目该计划由50多个中心组成，有150多所大学参与。这些中心包括750多名行业成员、600名教职科学家、1000名研究生和近250名本科生。目前的提案要求支持一项为期五年的奖励，以支持IUCRC方案的评价活动。拟议的国际儿童权利公约评价项目既涉及问责制问题，也涉及改进评价问题，并涉及方案一级和中央一级的内容。该评估致力于三个主要目标：1)通过记录IUCRC的结果和成就，帮助NSF和地方中心客观地评估其影响；2)通过向NSF和地方中心提供可操作的、及时的、基于数据的(正式收集和观察的)反馈、分析和建议，促进持续改进；3)确定并向NSF和地方中心交流有关IUCRC最佳做法的信息。过去通过国际研究与研究中心评价项目进行的研究和评价对扩大对一般合作研究，特别是工业/大学中心的了解作出了重大贡献。拟议的工作设定了相当雄心勃勃的目标，并承诺有助于理解各种关键问题，包括国际公共部门会计准则的经济影响、国际公共部门会计准则对小公司的影响以及国际公共部门会计准则的人力资本影响。IUCRC评价项目最独特的特点是重视地方中心主任的改进评价，及时从关键利益攸关方群体收集评价数据。该项目将为下一代S&T评估师提供培训工具，为该项目支持的研究生提供高质量的研究机会。最后，拟议的工作将继续非常积极主动地向更广泛的科学界传播研究结果，在广泛阅读和高质量的期刊上发表这项工作。此外，与项目评估工作相关的所有评估工具、项目报告以及学生和教职员工的论文都将在北卡罗来纳州立大学服务器上的项目评估网站(www.ncsu.edu/iucrc)上公开提供。