STEM Evaluation Community Project

STEM评估社区项目的主要目标是提高评估人员对NSF计划和项目进行高质量、概念合理、方法适当的评估的能力。该项目将有助于探索确定NSF计划和项目影响的创新方法，促进NSF计划和项目评估的有用性，并有助于扩大评估STEM教育，劳动力和外展计划的理论基础。STEM评估社区将作为评估能力建设的协调中心，与资助STEM教育的NSF计划一起，人力资源和外联活动，将人们和想法聚集在一起，促进对话，共享资源，提供传播机会等等。由此产生的评估人员连接系统将通过一个生动，动态的评估专业社区促进社会创新，NSF计划和项目评估人员将在其中分享他们的工作，相互学习，并最终利用和增强现有的评估能力建设基础设施，这些基础设施是为特定的NSF计划和受众开发的，从而制定了一个课程，以进一步建立整个NSF的评估能力。

The primary goal of the STEM Evaluation Community project is to increase the capacity of evaluators to produce high quality, conceptually sound, methodologically appropriate evaluations of NSF programs and projects. The project will contribute to the exploration of innovative new approaches for determining the impact of NSF programs and projects, promote the usefulness of NSF program and project evaluations, and help to expand the theoretical foundations for evaluating STEM education, workforce, and outreach initiatives.The STEM Evaluation Community will serve as a focal point for evaluation capacity building with and across the NSF programs that fund STEM education, workforce and outreach activities, bringing people and ideas together, facilitating dialogue, sharing resources, offering opportunities for dissemination and more. The resulting connected system of evaluators will promote social innovation through a lively, dynamic evaluation professional community in which NSF program and project evaluators will share their work, learn from each other, and, ultimately, leverage and enhance the existing evaluation capacity building infrastructure that has been developed for specific NSF programs and audiences, thus charting a course to build further evaluation capacity across NSF.