Establishing a DLESE Evaluation Services Center

DLESE评估服务小组将通过与其他核心服务实体（DPC、社区、集合和数据中心）的互动和协作，以及通过其自身的评估和社区建设活动，进一步推进DLESE的使命。 有两个中心目标：在教育、环境和经济发展部的所有部分建设持续评价工作的能力，并了解教育、环境和经济发展部实现其目标的程度。 为了实现这些目标，评价服务中心将发挥四项重要职能或作用。 它们将：1）制定一个全面的DLESE评估计划，2）作为核心服务中心的中央评估顾问，并建立评估能力，3）进行和协调解决主要DLESE评估问题（用户特征，广泛收集质量，DLESE实施的课堂影响）所需的评估工作，以及4）收集，综合和报告所有来源的调查结果。 这项工作将涉及数字图书馆的使用和发展，特别是在地球科学教育中的使用和发展。 发展DLESE社区内的评价能力将继续提供DLESE评价数据，促进以目标为导向和反思性的工作，并为地球科学教育特有的评价知识体系做出贡献。 针对DLESE总体目标的评价工作将提供数据，指导图书馆的进一步发展。

The DLESE Evaluation Serv ices group will further the DLESE mission through interaction and collaboration with the other core service entities (DPC, Community, Collections, and Data Centers) and through its own evaluative and community-building activities. There are two central goals: building capacity for sustained evaluation efforts in all parts of DLESE and providing understanding of the degree to which DLESE is achieving its goals. In order to meet these goals, the Evaluation service center will serve four important functions or roles. They are to: 1) develop an overarching DLESE evaluation plan, 2) serve as central evaluation consultant to the core service centers and build capacity for evaluation, 3) conduct and coordinate evaluation work needed to address major DLESE evaluation questions (user characteristics, Broad Collection quality, classroom impact of DLESE implementation), and 4) collect, synthesize and report upon the body of findings from all sources. This effort will address the use and development of digital libraries in general and within geoscience education in particular. The development of evaluation capacity within the DLESE community will continue to provide DLESE evaluation data, promote work that is goal-oriented and reflective, and contribute to the body of evaluation knowledge specific to geoscience education. The evaluative work directed at DLESE overarching goals will provide data to guide the further development of the library.