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To address the need for more structured, diverse, inclusive, equitable, holistic, and ongoing career planning, Individual Development Plans (IDPs) are used widely by academic institutions. Although IDPs have an enormous capacity to contribute to a wide scope of student outcomes including equitable training, mentorship, wellness, and career planning, assessment is complicated by the different IDP ideologies, frameworks, and tools that exist, as well as the different ways IDP creation process is facilitated. The goal of the NSF-funded Impact Indicators and Instruments for Individual Development Plans (I3IDP) project is to develop instruments to measure the outcomes and impact of IDPs on the development of graduate students in STEM. The development of these assessment instruments will facilitate the generation of comparable data within and across institutions to enhance the understanding of best practices in IDP use for PhD career planning. Of particular note is how IDPs may help lower the career and training barriers that exist for diverse and underrepresented groups. Partners behind this NSF funded project include GCC and creators from well-known IDP tools (myIDP.org, ChemIDP.org, ImaginePhD). In this interactive session we will present the indicators and outcomes of the IDP process as determined from stakeholder interviews and literature review, give participants a preview of the survey instruments, and discuss how IDP intervention can be used to provide more equitable training to graduate students and postdocs across multiple identity differences and intersectionality. 

Individual Development Plans (IDPs) have been used to support the career and professional development of graduate students across disciplines. This interactive session focuses on how IDPs can help you build your skills, form your professional identity, and take control of your career through an iterative process of self‐assessment, career exploration, decision making and goal setting. To provide an introduction to the IDP process attendees will be able to take a self‐assessment to learn about their particular strengths and begin to target their strengths toward their professional goals. Additionally a co‐developer and researcher of IDP platforms will highlight the aspects that can help your IDP be more effective than others.