Enhancing and Sustaining the CISE REU Site Evaluation Toolkit

该项目为计算与信息科学与工程(CEISE)本科生研究体验(REU)社区的外部评估活动和服务提供长期支持。该项目通过提供一个评估工具包，在加强对本科生研究项目结果的研究的同时，为评估报告提供便利，从而满足正在进行CEISE REU现场项目评估工作的主要研究人员的持续需求。CEISE REU评估工具包的主要目的是为质量计划评估提供有针对性的资源和工具，以平衡标准化评估的愿望和考虑个别计划背景的责任。该项目旨在加强评价工具和资源，并提供资源的可持续性和维持性。与工具包相关的服务包括：提供现场招聘的共同申请；协调一个共享的申请者人才库，供主要调查人员在各站点之间共享申请者；提供名为点菜学生调查的在线学生调查；以及提供校友追踪工具，以协助各站点跟踪参加该站点暑期研究的学生。该项目还向REU现场首席调查员提供汇总和现场具体分析。该工具包的好处在于提供具有成本效益的、可持续的评估工具、项目评估的社区论坛以及对关键项目成果指标的综合衡量。该项目的关键贡献在于，在评估本科生研究项目时，改进了对循证实践的理解，以帮助教师成功地管理这些项目。该项目的目标包括管理工具包的各个组成部分，提供评估工具包结果的分析和总结年度报告，以及提供及时的、针对具体地点的学生成绩数据包。该项目的力量来自于该项目培育的强大的实践研究社区，以及通过这笔资金支持和增加资源的持续承诺。该项目有助于理解本科生计算机研究项目对学生和教师参与者的影响。综合项目评估将为集体努力招收和指导参与尖端研究的本科生提供信息。这项研究产生的知识也将为教师如何参与REU网站以及对他们职业生涯的影响提供见解。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project provides long-term support for external evaluation activities and services for the Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) community. This project addresses the ongoing need among principal investigators who are conducting CISE REU Site program evaluation efforts by providing an evaluation toolkit that facilitates evaluation reporting while strengthening research about undergraduate research program outcomes. The primary purpose of the CISE REU Evaluation Toolkit is to provide targeted resources and tools for quality program evaluation that balance the desire for standardized assessment along with the responsibility to account for individual program contexts. This project aims to enhance the evaluation tools and resources and to provide for sustainability and maintenance of the resources. Services associated with the Toolkit are providing a Common Application for site recruiting, coordinating a Shared Applicant Pool for principal investigators to share applicants across sites, delivering an online student survey known as the A la Carte Student Survey,and providing an Alumni Tracker tool to assist sites with tracking their students after their participation in summer research at the site. The project also provides aggregate and site-specific analyses to REU Site principal investigators. The benefits of the Toolkit are in providing cost effective, sustainable evaluation tools, a community forum for program evaluation, and aggregate measurement of key program outcomes indicators. The key contribution of project is in the refinement of understanding evidence-based practices in evaluating undergraduate research programs to help faculty successfully manage these programs. The goals of the project include managing the various components of the Toolkit, providing analyses and summative annual reporting of the Evaluation Toolkit results, and providing timely, site-specific data packages of student results. The strength of this project comes from the strong research community of practice that has been nurtured by this project and the ongoing commitment to support and enhance the resources through this funding. The project contributes to understanding the impact of undergraduate computing research programs for both students and faculty participants. The comprehensive program evaluation will inform collective efforts to recruit and mentor undergraduate students involved in cutting-edge research. The knowledge generated by this study will also provide insights about how faculty engage in REU Sites and the impact on their careers.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.