EvaluATE: The Evaluation Hub for Advanced Technological Education

认识到系统和有效评估的价值，以及熟练技术劳动力教育中当前和新出现的问题，先进技术教育评估中心：评估支持全面的努力，为国家科学基金会先进技术教育（ATE）计划及其pi社区、评估人员、项目人员和其他利益相关者提供评估支持服务和材料/资源。评估中心寻求推进和维持一个评估由原则驱动的社区；有价值的、系统的和有效的；并用于提高先进技术领域技术人员的教育水平。与计划性评估活动相结合，EvaluATE还将开展一系列研究，以提高对评估和评估实践的认识，重点关注教育和评估活动中的多样性、公平性和包容性；以及利用评估来改进和问责。该项目旨在更广泛地解决ATE社区对ATE计划和技术人员教育的当前和新兴评估的记录需求。此外，它还寻求通过其规划、资源/服务和研究来建立、加强和推进评估的活动和影响。四个目标指导着这项工作的执行。首先，通过增加ATE合格评估人员的数量和多样性，提高潜在ATE评估人员的数量、多样性、熟练程度和可见性。第二，提高ATE项目和中心对评估的认识和使用。第三，加强对ATE计划的活动、成果和其他ATE相关活动的经验认识。四是推进评价方法创新，建立ATE评价的实证知识库。评估活动包括：1)管理ATE年度PI调查；2)调查整个ATE社区的多样性、公平性和包容性；3)创建ATE成果银行和支持性资源；4)建立ATE评估大使/冠军项目；5)建立与ATE评估人员的资格以及当前和未来评估人员的专业发展相关的徽章或资格认证流程；6)为当前和未来的pi及其活动创建和传播评价资源、材料和支持服务。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Recognizing the value of systematic and effective evaluation and current and emerging issues in the education of the skilled technical workforce, the Evaluation Hub for Advanced Technological Education: EvaluATE supports a comprehensive effort to provide evaluation support services and materials/resources for the NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program and its community of PIs, evaluators, project staff, and other stakeholders. The EvaluATE Hub seeks to advance and sustain a community in which evaluation is driven by principles; is valued, systematic, and effective; and is used to improve the education of technicians in advanced technological fields. In conjunction with programmatic evaluation activities, EvaluATE will also conduct a series of studies to advance knowledge about evaluation and evaluation practice, which focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in education and evaluative activities; and the use of evaluation for improvement and accountability. The project aims to address documented needs of the ATE community for current and emerging evaluation of the ATE program and technician education, more broadly. In addition, it seeks to build on, enhance, and advance the activities and impact of EvaluATE through its programming, resources/services, and research. Four goals guide the execution of this effort. First, is to enhance the number, diversity, proficiency, and visibility of potential ATE evaluators through increasing the pool and diversity of qualified evaluators for ATE. Second, is to increase awareness and use of evaluation by ATE project and centers. Third, is to enhance the empirical understanding of the ATE program’s activities, achievements, and other ATE-related activities. Fourth, and finally, is to advance innovation in evaluation methods and develop an empirical knowledge base about ATE evaluation. EvaluATE activities include: 1) administration of the ATE Annual PI Survey; 2) investigation of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts across the ATE community; 3) creation of an ATE Outcomes Bank and supportive resources; 4) establishment of an ATE Evaluation Ambassadors/Champions program; 5) establishment of a badging or credentialing process associated with qualifications for ATE evaluators and professional development for current and future evaluators; and 6) creation and dissemination of evaluation resources, materials, and support services for current and future PIs and their activities. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced technology fields that drive the nation's economy.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.