EvaluATE

评估中心是一个ATE支持中心，致力于支持和改进全国约250名ATE受赠者的评估实践。评价举办网络研讨会和讲习班，撰写关于评价实践的博客，维护一个带有数字资源库的网站，编写指导评价工作的材料，并对ATE受赠人进行年度调查。EVALUE的使命是通过与项目和中心合作来促进ATE计划的目标，以加强该计划的评估知识库，扩大示范评估实践的使用，并支持全国技术人员教育的持续改进。EVALUE与这项建议相关的目标是：(1)确保所有ATE首席调查人员和评估员了解可信和有用的评估的基本要素；(2)全面收集ATE评估的在线资源；(3)加强和扩大ATE评估利益相关者的网络；以及(4)收集、综合和传播有关ATE计划活动的数据，以促进对ATE/技师教育的了解。该中心计划编制一套全面的评价资源，以补充其他服务，聘请几名社区学院的首席调查员、选定社区学院的代表和评估员参与这一进程。EVALUE的产品参考了当前对评估的研究、国家科学基金会评估ATE赠款的优先事项，以及ATE绩效指标和评估者对在其背景下立即相关和可用的合理指导的需求。评估工作的基本性质是支持ATE受赠人定期使用评估来改进其工作并展示其影响。EVALUE的所有产品都向公众开放。EVALUE对ATE受资助者的年度调查结果有助于促进对技术员教育状况的了解，并阐明了需要进一步研究的领域。实施混合方法研究设计，中心将调查各种途径和方法，以评估与发展评价能力建设有关的活动的影响

The EvaluATE Center is an ATE Support Center dedicated to supporting and improving the evaluation practices of approximately 250 ATE grantees across the country. EvaluATE conducts webinars and workshops, blogs on evaluation practice, maintains a website with a digital resource library, develops materials to guide evaluation work, and conducts an annual survey of ATE grantees. EvaluATE's mission is to promote the goals of the ATE program by partnering with projects and centers to strengthen the program's evaluation knowledge base, expand the use of exemplary evaluation practices, and support the continuous improvement of technician education throughout the nation. EvaluATE's goals associated with this proposal are to: (1) Ensure that all ATE Principal Investigators and evaluators know the essential elements of a credible and useful evaluation; (2) Maintain a comprehensive collection of online resources for ATE evaluation; (3) Strengthen and expand the network of ATE evaluation stakeholders; and (4) Gather, synthesize, and disseminate data about the ATE program activities to advance knowledge about ATE/technician education. The Center plans to produce a comprehensive set of evaluation resources to complement other services, engaging several community college-based Principal Investigators, representatives from selected community colleges, and evaluators in that process. EvaluATE's products are informed by current research on evaluation, the National Science Foundation's priorities for the evaluation of ATE grants, and the needs of ATE PIs and evaluators for sound guidance that is immediately relevant and usable in their contexts. The fundamental nature of EvaluATE's work is geared toward supporting ATE grantees to use evaluation regularly to improve their work and demonstrate their impacts. All of EvaluATE's products are available to the public. EvaluATE's findings from the annual survey of ATE grantees aid in advancing understanding of the status of technician education and illuminate areas for additional research. Implementing a mixed methods research design the Center will investigate approaches and methods to assess the impact of activities associated with developing evaluation capacity building