Enhancing and Sustaining the CISE REU Site Evaluation Toolkit

增强和维持 CISE REU 场地评估工具包

• 批准号: 1936534
• 负责人: Audrey Rorrer
• 金额: $ 16.59万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• 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: 2019-10-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1936534&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Sustaining; CISE; REU; Site

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.

该项目为计算机和信息科学与工程（CISE）本科生（REU）社区的研究经验提供外部评估活动和服务的长期支持。该项目通过提供一个评估工具包，促进评估报告，同时加强对本科生研究计划成果的研究，解决了正在进行CISE REU网站计划评估工作的主要研究者之间的持续需求。CISE 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，以平衡标准化评估沿着的需求和对个别计划背景负责的责任。该项目旨在加强评价工具和资源，并确保资源的可持续性和维护。 与该工具包有关的服务包括：为研究中心招聘提供一个通用应用程序;为主要研究人员协调一个共享申请人库，以便在各研究中心共享申请人;提供一个名为“点菜学生调查”的在线学生调查;提供一个校友跟踪工具，以协助研究中心在学生参加研究中心夏季研究后跟踪他们。 该项目还为REU研究中心的主要研究者提供汇总和研究中心特定分析。该工具包的好处是提供了成本效益高、可持续的评估工具，为方案评估提供了一个社区论坛，并对关键方案成果指标进行了综合衡量。该项目的主要贡献是在完善理解循证实践评估本科研究计划，以帮助教师成功地管理这些计划。该项目的目标包括管理评价工具包的各个组成部分，提供评价工具包成果的分析和总结性年度报告，并及时提供针对具体地点的学生成果数据包。 该项目的优势来自于该项目培养的强大的研究实践社区，以及通过该资金支持和增加资源的持续承诺。该项目有助于了解本科计算研究计划对学生和教师参与者的影响。全面的项目评估将为招募和指导参与尖端研究的本科生的集体努力提供信息。这项研究所产生的知识也将提供有关教师如何参与REU网站及其对他们的职业生涯的影响的见解。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。