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

该补助金的主要目标是1）系统地评估迈耶霍夫计划的积极，长期的学术成果（例如，坚持在SMET专业毕业，在SMET研究生课程招生，并完成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）衡量Meyerhoff Scolars的成功，以便更明确地将积极成果归因于该计划; 3）进一步描绘学生认为是最负责他们的成功的程序特性;和4）进一步探索的过程中，非裔美国学生成功的小型和微型电子商务专业。 此外，这项研究将确定是否同样的过程是负责非洲裔美国研究生，本科，中小企业学生的成功，一个几乎未探索的话题。

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.