Increasing Participation in the NSDL - Transforming a Nation-wide Evaluation Instrument for Use by NSDL Pathways Projects and Collections

这个NSDL小型目标项目正在开发一个评估工具，供NSDL Pathways、Core Integration和其他集合使用。该项目的智力价值包括建立在早期有针对性的项目，教师参与NSDL -降低障碍（FP-NSDL）的教训。需要该评估工具来帮助NSDL了解其用户社区特定的学习需求，识别使用集合的障碍，并跟踪使用情况如何随着时间的推移而变化。该项目更广泛的影响包括在各个STEM学科中更深入地扩展该工具。虽然传播的主要受众是NSDL途径、核心集成和集合，但该项目的好处超出了NSDL。

This NSDL small targeted project is developing an evaluation tool for use by the NSDL Pathways, Core Integration, and other collections. The intellectual merit of the project includes building on the lessons of an earlier targeted project, Faculty Participation in the NSDL - Lowering the Barriers (FP-NSDL). The evaluation tool is needed to help the NSDL understand learning needs specific to their user communities, identify barriers to use of a collection, and track how use changes over time. The broader impacts of the project include extending the tool in more depth within individual STEM disciplines. While the primary audience for dissemination is the NSDL Pathways, Core Integration, and collections, the benefits from this project extend beyond the NSDL.