Preparing a Culturally Diverse and Culturally Responsive Generation of Evaluators: A Workshop to Design a Proposal for Advanced Training

该项目建立在一个既定的需要更大的问责制，监督和公共资源的管理，特别是需要在科学，技术，工程，数学（STEM）教育学科的联邦机构资助的教育计划进行实质性评估。 该项目所针对的评价能力建设的一个特殊需求点是，需要更多的文化多样性和敏感性的评价人员。 然而，建立这样一个人才库的困难部分在于缺乏研究生培训计划，特别是传统上代表性不足的群体。 这种能力建设的另一个障碍是缺乏高度发展的课程框架，课堂经验，实习经验，以文化敏感的评价为基础。 该项目建议将这样一个框架的发展提升到更高的水平，并产生一个模型，该模型在我们如何培训和招聘研究生学位和非学位课程的评估人员方面具有重大创新的潜力，以便在文化环境中有效地工作。 这一发展的机制是一个两阶段的计划，目前的项目是第一阶段。 第一阶段的第一项活动是为期两天的讲习班，讨论将相关征聘和培训纳入文化敏感评价的问题、挑战和战略。 研讨会的参与者将是来自研究生学位和证书课程的代表，他们已经成功地招募和培训了文化反应性评估。 第二项活动首先是对活动中的信息进行综合，并向国家科学基金会提交一份提案，以便利用该框架开展高级培训（并可能进行研究）。 新供资中的这一活动将构成第二阶段。

This project builds on an established need for greater accountability, oversight, and management of public resources and specifically the need for substantive evaluation in educational programs funded by federal agencies in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematic (STEM) education disciplines. A particular locus of need for evauluation capacity builing that the project addresses is the need for more culturally diverse and sensitive pool of evaluators. However, the difficulty in building such a pool rests in part of the dearth of graduate training programs in general and of faculty in evaluation from traditionally underrepresented groups in particular. An additional obstacle to such capacity building is the lack of highly dveloped frameworks for curricula, classroom experiences, and internship experiences that are grounded in culturally responsive evaluation. The project proposes to take development of such a framework to higher levels and to produce a model that has potential fo major innovations in how we train and levels and recruit evaluators in graduate degreee and non-degree programs to work effectiveley in cultural settings. The mechanism for this development is a two-phase plan of which the current project is phase one. The first activity in phase on is a two-day workshop to discuss issues, challenges, and strategies for including relevant recruitment and training in culturally responsive evaluation. Participants in the workshop will be representatives from graduate degree and certificate programs who have been successful in their recruitment of and training for culturally repsonsive evaluation. The second activity in the first place is the production of synthesis of information from the activity and a propsal for submission to the National Science Foundation for implementing (and presumably conducting research on) advanced training utilizing the framework. This activity in the new funding would constitute the second phase.