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

这笔拨款的主要目的是：1)系统评估Meyerhoff项目积极的长期学术成果(例如，对SMET专业毕业的坚持、参加SMET研究生项目和完成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Meyerhoff Scolars的成功，以便积极成果可以更明确地归因于项目；3)进一步描述学生认为对他们的成功负有最大责任的项目特点；以及4)进一步探索非裔美国学生在SMET专业取得成功的过程。此外，这项研究将确定非洲裔美国人毕业生的成功过程是否与本科生和研究生的成功过程相同，这实际上是一个未被探索的话题。

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.