STEM Evaluation Community Project

STEM评估社区项目的主要目标是提高评估人员的能力，以对国家科学基金的方案和项目进行高质量、概念上合理、方法上合适的评估。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效性，并帮助扩大评估STEM教育、劳动力和外展倡议的理论基础。STEM评估社区将作为NSF项目评估能力建设的联络点，NSF计划资助STEM教育、劳动力和外展活动，将人和想法聚集在一起，促进对话，共享资源，提供传播机会等。由此产生的相互联系的评估员系统将通过一个活跃、动态的评估专业社区促进社会创新，在这个社区中，NSF计划和项目评估员将分享他们的工作，相互学习，并最终利用和加强为特定NSF计划和受众开发的现有评估能力建设基础设施，从而规划出一条在整个NSF范围内建设进一步评估能力的路线。

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.