DCL: NSF INCLUDES Conference - Collaborative Research: Envisioning Impact

DCL：NSF 包括会议 - 协作研究：展望影响

• 批准号: 1650158
• 负责人: Joni Falk
• 金额: $ 9.77万
• 依托单位: TERC Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-10-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1650158&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DCL; NSF; INCLUDES; Conference; Collaborative

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.

该奖项支持一个会议，该会议将为NSF INCLUDES（工程和科学中代表性不足的发现者的学习者社区的全国包容性）计划的“骨干”组织的设计提供信息。芝加哥大学NORC（一个提供可靠数据和严格分析以指导方案和政策决定的独立研究机构）和TERC（一家位于马萨诸塞州剑桥的非营利性教育研究和开发组织，致力于改善所有人的STEM学习）在“展望影响”上进行合作，这是一个分为两部分的现场和虚拟活动，将为INCLUDES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INCLUDES扩大参与项目和方案的影响的共同看法;（2）促进对持续改进和成果评估的共同衡量系统的关键要素的讨论;以及（3）为基础设施和优先服务的决策提供信息，包括骨干组织将为受资助者提供的服务（及其他）评估集体影响的进展情况。会议将汇集三个社区的成员：包括设计和开发启动试点的PI和评估员;其他NSF支持的扩大参与联盟，推广项目和其他集体努力的调查员和评估员，以支持STEM的包容性和多样性;以及先前和现存NSF支持的知识网络，合作实验室和资源网络倡议的成员。这些社区的成员将在两个独立的活动中进行合作：一个是为期1.5天的面对面会议，另一个是后续的虚拟视频厅，这将使更多的参与者在一周的时间内参与到围绕每个项目制作的短视频叙述的社区讨论中。