Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Evaluation Capacity Building Conferences (AGEP ECBCs)

研究生教育和教授联盟 (AGEP) 评估能力建设会议 (AGEP ECBC)

• 批准号: 1841985
• 负责人: Leslie Goodyear
• 金额: $ 82.5万
• 依托单位: Education Development Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-03-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1841985&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Alliances; Graduate; Education; Professoriate; AGEP

The Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Evaluation Capacity Building Conferences (AGEP ECBCs) project was created in response to the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program solicitation (NSF 16-552). The AGEP program solicitation calls for conference that are related to the AGEP program goal and objectives. The AGEP program seeks to advance knowledge about models to improve pathways to the professoriate and the successes of URM graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty in specific STEM disciplines and/or STEM education research fields. AGEP Alliance awardees develop, implement and study, via integrated educational and social science research, Alliance Models to transform the dissertator phase of doctoral education, postdoctoral training and/or faculty advancement, and the transitions within and across the pathway levels, of historically underrepresented minorities (URMs) in STEM and STEM education faculty careers. As the nation addresses a STEM achievement gap between URM and non-URM undergraduate and graduate students, our universities and colleges struggle to recruit, retain and promote URM STEM faculty who serve as role models and academic leaders for URM students to learn from, work with and emulate. Recent NSF reports indicate that URM STEM associate and full professors occupy 8% of these senior faculty positions at all 4-year colleges and universities, and about 6% of these positions at the nation's most research-intensive institutions. This AGEP ECBCs project will advance knowledge about the evaluation of initiatives, models and alliance activities that can be sustained, institutionalized and scaled at US universities and colleges to advance URM graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty in STEM and STEM education academic professions. The goal of the AGEP ECBCs project is to increase the capacity of evaluators, who work with AGEP-funded Alliances and other awards, to produce high quality, culturally responsive, contextually relevant, and methodologically appropriate evaluations of award activities, outcomes and impacts. The conference series will generate and support a collaborative network of AGEP project evaluators, investigators, staff, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.In addition to two conferences per year, there will be webinars and other web-based support systems for the network of evaluators, Principal Investigators and project team members. One conference per year will be a pre-conference workshop at the American Evaluation Association's (AEA) annual meeting, and the other conference will be a pre-conference training at the Annual AGEP Research Conference. The AGEP ECBCs project includes both evaluation components and a dissemination plan for broader impacts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

研究生教育和教授联盟 (AGEP) 评估能力建设会议 (AGEP ECBC) 项目是为了响应 NSF 研究生教育和教授联盟 (AGEP) 计划征集 (NSF 16-552) 而创建的。 AGEP 计划征集要求召开与 AGEP 计划目的和目标相关的会议。 GEP 项目旨在增进有关模型的知识，以改善 URM 研究生、博士后研究员和教师在特定 STEM 学科和/或 STEM 教育研究领域的教授之路，并取得成功。 AGEP 联盟获奖者通过综合教育和社会科学研究开发、实施和研究联盟模型，以改变博士教育的论文阶段、博士后培训和/或教师晋升，以及在 STEM 和 STEM 教育教师职业生涯中历史上代表性不足的少数族裔 (URM) 的内部和跨途径水平的转变。 随着国家解决 URM 与非 URM 本科生和研究生之间的 STEM 成绩差距，我们的大学和学院努力招募、留住和提拔 URM STEM 教师，他们是 URM 学生学习、合作和效仿的榜样和学术领袖。最近的 NSF 报告表明，在所有四年制学院和大学中，URM STEM 副教授和正教授占据了高级教职职位的 8%，在全国研究最密集的机构中，约占这些职位的 6%。 GEP ECBC 项目将增进对美国大学和学院可以持续、制度化和规模化的举措、模式和联盟活动评估的了解，以促进 URM 研究生、博士后学者和教师在 STEM 和 STEM 教育学术专业领域的发展。 AGEP ECBCs 项目的目标是提高评估人员的能力，评估人员与 GEP 资助的联盟和其他奖项合作，对奖项活动、成果和影响进行高质量、文化响应、情境相关和方法适当的评估。该系列会议将建立并支持由AGEP项目评估人员、研究人员、工作人员、研究生和博士后学者组成的协作网络。除了每年两次会议外，还将为评估人员、首席研究员和项目团队成员网络举办网络研讨会和其他基于网络的支持系统。每年一次会议将是美国评估协会（AEA）年会上的会前​​研讨会，另一次会议将是年度AGEP研究会议上的会前培训。 AGEP ECBCs 项目包括评估部分和更广泛影响的传播计划。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。