DCL: NSF INCLUDES Conference - Collaborative Research: Envisioning Impact

该奖项支持一次会议，该会议将为NSF INCLUDE(在全国范围内纳入工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者的学习者社区)计划的“骨干”组织的设计提供信息。芝加哥大学的NORC(一家提供可靠数据和严格分析以指导方案和政策决策的独立研究机构)和TERC(一家总部设在马萨诸塞州剑桥市的非营利性教育研发组织，致力于改善STEM全民学习)合作开展展望影响，这是一个两部分面对面的虚拟活动，将为包括联盟和国家网络骨干组织的设计提供信息。会议的目标是：(1)促进对影响的共同看法，包括扩大参与项目和计划；(2)促进关于持续改进和结果评估的共同衡量系统的关键要素的讨论；以及(3)就基础设施和优先服务的决策提供信息，包括组织将提供的骨干服务，以协助受赠者(和其他人)评估集体影响的进展情况。会议将把三个社区的成员聚集在一起：PIS和Include Design and Development Launch Pilot的评估人员；NSF支持的其他扩大参与联盟、扩展项目和其他集体努力的调查和评估人员，以支持STEM的包容性和多样性；以及先前和现有NSF支持的知识网络、合作和资源网络倡议的成员。这些社区的成员将在两个不同的活动中进行合作：一个为期1.5天的面对面会议，以及一个后续的虚拟视频大厅，它将使更多的参与者在一周的时间里，围绕每个项目制作的短视频讲述，参与促进社区的讨论。

This award supports a conference that will inform the design of "backbone" organizations for the NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science) program. NORC at the University of Chicago (an independent research institution that delivers reliable data and rigorous analyses to guide programmatic and policy decisions) and TERC (a nonprofit education research and development organization based in Cambridge, MA, dedicated to improving STEM learning for all) collaborate on Envisioning Impact, a two-part in-person and virtual event that will inform the design of INCLUDES Alliance and National Network backbone organizations. The objectives of the conference are to: (1) facilitate a shared vision of impact for INCLUDES broadening participation projects and program; (2) stimulate discourse on key elements of a shared measurement system for continuous improvement and outcome assessment; and (3) inform decisions on the infrastructure and priority services INCLUDES backbone organizations will provide to assist grantees (and others) in assessing progress towards collective impact. The conference will bring members of three communities together: PIs and evaluators of INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilots; investigators and evaluators of other NSF-supported broadening participation alliances, extension projects, and other collective efforts to support inclusion and diversity in STEM; and members of prior and extant NSF-supported knowledge-networking, collaboratory, and resource network initiatives. Members of these communities will collaborate in two separate events: an in-person, 1.5 day conference, and a follow-on virtual Video Hall that will allow a larger number of participants to engage, over a one week period, in facilitated community discourse around short video narratives produced by each project.