Examining The Success of African-American Graduate and Undergraduate Students in Sci, Math, Eng, & Tech: Longitudinal Studies of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program.

该资助的主要目标是：1)系统地评估迈耶霍夫项目的积极、长期的学术成果（例如，坚持从SMET专业毕业，注册SMET研究生课程，完成SMET研究生学位）；2)提高比较样本的科学严谨性（通过随机分配），以衡量迈耶霍夫学者的成功，使积极的结果可能更明确地归因于该计划；3)进一步描述学生认为对他们的成功最负责任的课程特征；4)进一步探讨非裔美国学生在SMET专业取得成功的过程。此外，这项研究将确定是否同样的过程负责非裔美国研究生，本科生，SMET学生的成功，一个几乎未被探索的话题。

The major goals of this grant are to 1) systemically evaluate the Meyerhoff Program's positive, long-term academic outcomes (e.g., persistence to graduation in SMET majors, enrollment in SMET graduate programs, and completion of SMET graduate degrees); 2) improve the scientific rigor of the comparison samples (through random assignment) against which the success of the Meyerhoff Scolars is measured so that the positive outcomes may be more definitively attributed to the program; 3) further delineate the program characteristics perceived by students as most responsible for their success; and 4) further explore the processes underlying African-American student success in SMET majors. Additionally, this research will ascertain whether the same processes are responsible for African-American graduate, as for undergraduate, SMET student successes, a virtually unexplored topic.