DCL: NSF INCLUDES Conference - Collaborative Research: Envisioning Impact

该奖项支持一个会议，该会议将为NSF INCLUDES（工程和科学领域代表性不足的学习者的全国社区包容）项目的“骨干”组织的设计提供信息。芝加哥大学的NORC（一个独立的研究机构，提供可靠的数据和严格的分析来指导计划和政策决策）和TERC（一个位于马萨诸塞州剑桥的非营利教育研究和发展组织，致力于改善所有人的STEM学习）在设想影响上合作，这是一个由两部分组成的面对面和虚拟活动，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)促进对包容性影响的共同愿景，扩大参与项目和计划；(2)促进对持续改进和结果评估的共享测量系统关键要素的讨论；(3)为基础设施和优先服务的决策提供信息，包括骨干组织将提供帮助受助人（和其他人）评估集体影响的进展情况。会议将汇集三个社区的成员：项目负责人和包括设计和开发启动试点的评估人员；其他nsf支持的扩大参与联盟、推广项目和其他支持STEM包容性和多样性的集体努力的研究人员和评估人员；和先前和现存的nsf支持的知识网络、协作和资源网络计划的成员。这些社区的成员将在两个单独的活动中进行合作：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，虚拟视频厅将允许更多的参与者在一周的时间内参与围绕每个项目制作的短视频叙述的便利社区讨论。

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.