Regional Evaluation Series: Assessment and Best Practices

由于联邦政府（包括国家科学基金会）对资助项目投资的有效正式评估和问责制的需求日益增加，西弗吉尼亚州EPSCoR（WV EPSCoR）提议举办一系列三个区域讲习班，专门解决EPSCoR 27个管辖区中每个管辖区的评估问题。 区域讲习班的目的是从参与者那里获得必要的投入和反馈，以促进制定一个符合EPSCoR的愿景、目标和目的以及EPSCoR各个地点的需求和独特性的计划评估系统。 讲习班参与者将有机会分享他们在当地实施的评价战略，讨论其优势和需要改进的领域，并获得评价专家的技术援助。 因此，拟议讲习班的一项主要成果将是确定一套可供各管辖区使用的有效评价模式。 同样，预计与会者将为制定EPSCoR总体评价计划提供建议。

As a result of the increasing need within the federal government, NSF included, for effective formal assessment and accountability of investments in funded projects, the West Virginia EPSCoR (WV EPSCoR) proposes to conduct a series of three regional workshops to specifically address the issue of evaluation in each of the 27 EPSCoR jurisdictions. The purpose of the regional workshops is to obtain the necessary input and feedback from participants that will facilitate the development of a program evaluation system consistent with both EPSCoR's vision, goals and objectives, as well as with the needs and unique characteristics of the individual EPSCoR sites. Workshops participants will have the opportunity to share their locally implemented evaluation strategies, discuss their strength and areas to improve, and receive technical assistance from evaluation experts. Thus, a major outcome of the proposed workshops will be the identification of a set of effective evaluation models that can be used by the jurisdictions. Similarly, participants will be expected to provide suggestions for the development of the overall EPSCoR evaluation scheme.