DCL: NSF INCLUDES Conference – Collaborative Research: Envisioning Impact

October 1st, 2016 - September 30th, 2017 | PROJECT

This award supports a conference that will inform the design of "backbone" organizations for the NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science) program. NORC at the University of Chicago (an independent research institution that delivers reliable data and rigorous analyses to guide programmatic and policy decisions) and TERC (a nonprofit education research and development organization based in Cambridge, MA, dedicated to improving STEM learning for all) collaborate on Envisioning Impact, a two-part in-person and virtual event that will inform the design of INCLUDES Alliance and National Network backbone organizations.

The objectives of the conference are to: (1) facilitate a shared vision of impact for INCLUDES broadening participation projects and program; (2) stimulate discourse on key elements of a shared measurement system for continuous improvement and outcome assessment; and (3) inform decisions on the infrastructure and priority services INCLUDES backbone organizations will provide to assist grantees (and others) in assessing progress towards collective impact. The conference will bring members of three communities together: PIs and evaluators of INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilots; investigators and evaluators of other NSF-supported broadening participation alliances, extension projects, and other collective efforts to support inclusion and diversity in STEM; and members of prior and extant NSF-supported knowledge-networking, collaboratory, and resource network initiatives. Members of these communities will collaborate in two separate events: an in-person, 1.5 day conference, and a follow-on virtual Video Hall that will allow a larger number of participants to engage, over a one week period, in facilitated community discourse around short video narratives produced by each project.

Project Website(s)

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Team Members

Kevin Brown, Principal Investigator, National Opinion Research Center
Sarah-Kathryn McDonald, Former Principal Investigator
Joni Falk, Principal Investigator, TERC Inc.

Funders

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: NSF INCLUDES
Award Number: 1650289
Funding Amount: $152,420.00

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: NSF INCLUDES
Award Number: 1650158
Funding Amount: $97,661.00

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Discipline: Education and learning science | General STEM
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