IGE Hub Update: Program Assessment and Evaluation

CGS hosts the IGE Hub, an NSF-funded network that supports communication and collaboration across NSF’s Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) grants. The project also seeks to build bridges between grantees and the broader STEM graduate education community.

Idea Lab: Program Assessment & Evaluation– A 12-Step Process

On June 12, Janis Bush, Professor of Biology, University of Texas San Antonio and PI for an NSF Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) grant, led a webinar on program assessment and evaluation. Program assessment and evaluation is an essential process for understanding, improving and maximizing the impact of programs designed to improve graduate education.

In this Idea Lab, Bush draws from lessons from a recent initiative, Advancing and Strengthening Science Identity through Systematic Training (ASSIST). She explains the 12-step process for engaging in continuous reflection and improvement to ensure that programs effectively meet their objectives and make a positive difference in the lives of targeted stakeholders.

The Idea Lab will be of interest to graduate education researchers seeking to learn more about program assessment and evaluation, particularly in the contexts of projects on mentoring, diversity equity and inclusion, and the development of researcher identities among graduate students.

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