Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Evaluation Capacity Building Conferences (AGEP ECBCs)

研究生教育联盟和教授(AGEP)评估能力建设会议(AGEP ECBC)项目是为了响应NSF的研究生教育联盟和教授(AGEP)计划征集(NSF 16-552)而创建的。AGEP方案征集要求召开与AGEP方案目标和目的有关的会议。AGEP计划致力于增进有关模式的知识，以改善URM研究生、博士后研究员和教师在特定STEM学科和/或STEM教育研究领域获得教授和成功的途径。AGEP联盟获奖者通过综合教育和社会科学研究，开发、实施和研究联盟模式，以改变博士教育的论文撰写阶段、博士后培训和/或教师晋升，以及在STEM和STEM教育教师职业生涯中历史上代表性不足的少数群体(URM)的途径内和途径之间的过渡。随着国家解决URM与非URM本科生和研究生之间的STEM成就差距，我们的大学和学院努力招聘、留住和提拔URM STEM教师，他们是URM学生学习、合作和效仿的榜样和学术领袖。NSF最近的报告显示，URM STEM副教授和正教授在所有四年制学院和大学中占据了8%的高级教职职位，在美国研究最密集的机构中约占6%。AGEP ECBCS项目将促进对可在美国大学和学院持续、制度化和规模化的举措、模式和联盟活动的评估的了解，以促进STEM和STEM教育学术专业的URM研究生、博士后学者和教职员工。AGEP ECBC项目的目标是提高评价员的能力，他们与AGEP资助的联盟和其他奖项合作，对奖项活动、结果和影响进行高质量、符合文化要求、与背景相关和方法适当的评价。该系列会议将产生和支持由AGEP项目评估员、调查人员、工作人员、研究生和博士后学者组成的协作网络。除了每年举行两次会议外，还将为评估员、首席调查人员和项目小组成员网络举办网络研讨会和其他基于网络的支助系统。每年一次的会议将是美国评估协会(AEA)年会的会前研讨会，另一次会议将是年度AGEP研究会议的会前培训。AGEP ECBC项目包括评估部分和更广泛影响的传播计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Evaluation Capacity Building Conferences (AGEP ECBCs) project was created in response to the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program solicitation (NSF 16-552). The AGEP program solicitation calls for conference that are related to the AGEP program goal and objectives. The AGEP program seeks to advance knowledge about models to improve pathways to the professoriate and the successes of URM graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty in specific STEM disciplines and/or STEM education research fields. AGEP Alliance awardees develop, implement and study, via integrated educational and social science research, Alliance Models to transform the dissertator phase of doctoral education, postdoctoral training and/or faculty advancement, and the transitions within and across the pathway levels, of historically underrepresented minorities (URMs) in STEM and STEM education faculty careers. As the nation addresses a STEM achievement gap between URM and non-URM undergraduate and graduate students, our universities and colleges struggle to recruit, retain and promote URM STEM faculty who serve as role models and academic leaders for URM students to learn from, work with and emulate. Recent NSF reports indicate that URM STEM associate and full professors occupy 8% of these senior faculty positions at all 4-year colleges and universities, and about 6% of these positions at the nation's most research-intensive institutions. This AGEP ECBCs project will advance knowledge about the evaluation of initiatives, models and alliance activities that can be sustained, institutionalized and scaled at US universities and colleges to advance URM graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty in STEM and STEM education academic professions. The goal of the AGEP ECBCs project is to increase the capacity of evaluators, who work with AGEP-funded Alliances and other awards, to produce high quality, culturally responsive, contextually relevant, and methodologically appropriate evaluations of award activities, outcomes and impacts. The conference series will generate and support a collaborative network of AGEP project evaluators, investigators, staff, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.In addition to two conferences per year, there will be webinars and other web-based support systems for the network of evaluators, Principal Investigators and project team members. One conference per year will be a pre-conference workshop at the American Evaluation Association's (AEA) annual meeting, and the other conference will be a pre-conference training at the Annual AGEP Research Conference. The AGEP ECBCs project includes both evaluation components and a dissemination plan for broader impacts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.