针对科学基金国际评估总体方案设计面临的方法论难题,本文尝试构建了循证评估设计方法,对其原理与应用进行了阐述,并通过科学基金国际评估总体方案设计展示了它的可行性。通过提取评估方案的关键构成要素并寻找支撑其内容的证据来源,构建了评估要素—证据矩阵并将之用于评估方案设计。研究表明,循证评估设计方法能为科学基金国际评估方案设计提供很好的支持。
The Natural Science Fund of China (NSFC) has kicked off an international evaluation program since 2008 in order to assess its global funding and management performance establishing in 1986, which is faced with grave challenges. An evidence - based evaluation design approach is proposed to deal with the challenges for designing the overall international evaluation system of NSFC. The essentials of the international evaluation system are identified, appropriate evidences are searched to support them, and the evaluation essential - evidence matrix, which is applied to design the international evaluation system of NSFC, is construtted. The study reveals that the evidence - based evaluation design approach provides the sufficient support for designing the international evaluation system of NSFC, and could be widely used in other science and technology performance evaluation arenas.