EvaluATE

评估中心是一个ATE支持中心，致力于支持和改进全国约250个ATE受助人的评估实践。评估组织举办关于评估实践的网络研讨会和讲习班，撰写博客，维护一个带有数字资源库的网站，编写指导评估工作的材料，并对评估技术资助人进行年度调查。EvaluATE的使命是通过与项目和中心合作来促进ATE项目的目标，以加强项目的评估知识库，扩大示范性评估实践的使用，并支持全国技术人员教育的持续改进。EvaluATE与本提案相关的目标是：(1)确保所有ATE主要研究者和评估人员了解可信和有用评估的基本要素；(2)维护ATE评估在线资源的全面收集；(3)加强和扩大ATE评估利益相关者网络；(4)收集、综合和传播有关ATE项目活动的数据，以提高对ATE/技术员教育的认识。该中心计划制作一套全面的评估资源，以补充其他服务，并在此过程中与几位社区学院的首席调查员、选定社区学院的代表和评估人员合作。EvaluATE的产品是根据当前的评估研究、美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）对ATE拨款评估的优先事项、ATE pi和评估人员对在其环境中立即相关和可用的健全指导的需求而提供的。EvaluATE工作的基本性质是支持ATE受助人定期使用评估来改进他们的工作并展示他们的影响。所有EvaluATE的产品都对公众开放。EvaluATE对ATE受助人的年度调查结果有助于提高对技术人员教育现状的理解，并阐明了进一步研究的领域。实施混合方法研究设计，中心将调查评估与发展评价能力建设有关的活动的影响的途径和方法

The EvaluATE Center is an ATE Support Center dedicated to supporting and improving the evaluation practices of approximately 250 ATE grantees across the country. EvaluATE conducts webinars and workshops, blogs on evaluation practice, maintains a website with a digital resource library, develops materials to guide evaluation work, and conducts an annual survey of ATE grantees. EvaluATE's mission is to promote the goals of the ATE program by partnering with projects and centers to strengthen the program's evaluation knowledge base, expand the use of exemplary evaluation practices, and support the continuous improvement of technician education throughout the nation. EvaluATE's goals associated with this proposal are to: (1) Ensure that all ATE Principal Investigators and evaluators know the essential elements of a credible and useful evaluation; (2) Maintain a comprehensive collection of online resources for ATE evaluation; (3) Strengthen and expand the network of ATE evaluation stakeholders; and (4) Gather, synthesize, and disseminate data about the ATE program activities to advance knowledge about ATE/technician education. The Center plans to produce a comprehensive set of evaluation resources to complement other services, engaging several community college-based Principal Investigators, representatives from selected community colleges, and evaluators in that process. EvaluATE's products are informed by current research on evaluation, the National Science Foundation's priorities for the evaluation of ATE grants, and the needs of ATE PIs and evaluators for sound guidance that is immediately relevant and usable in their contexts. The fundamental nature of EvaluATE's work is geared toward supporting ATE grantees to use evaluation regularly to improve their work and demonstrate their impacts. All of EvaluATE's products are available to the public. EvaluATE's findings from the annual survey of ATE grantees aid in advancing understanding of the status of technician education and illuminate areas for additional research. Implementing a mixed methods research design the Center will investigate approaches and methods to assess the impact of activities associated with developing evaluation capacity building