Measuring Graduate Student Retention and Progression

拟议的后续项目旨在加强NSF资助的研究生教育联盟和教授（AGEP）网络的能力，以评估在STEM领域中代表性不足的非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔美国人和美洲原住民的招聘和保留。AGEP网络由23个联盟组成，为大约80个机构服务。先前的工作导致了一个初步的框架和一些指标的发展，以跟踪代表性不足的学生在1996-97年至2002-03年的纵向基础上在参与机构的招聘，保留，学术进步和学位完成。 新的工作将把这一执行工作延伸到以后几年，并将探讨如何完善框架，使各机构的指标更好地标准化。这项工作的主要目标是在每一个AGEP机构建立一种“评价文化”，这种文化将由一个跨机构的中央框架指导，并且各个机构可以适应当地的情况。

The proposed follow-on project seeks to strengthen the capacity of the NSF funded Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) network to evaluate recruitment and retention of underrepresented African American, Hispanics, and Native Americans in STEM fields. The AGEP network consisted of 23 alliances serving approximately 80 institutions. The previous work led to development of a preliminary framework and some indicators to track underrepresented student recruitment, retention, academic progress, and degree completion at the participating institutions on a longitudinal basis from 1996-97 through 2002-03. The new work would extend this implementation into subsequent years and would investigate ways to refine the framework and to standardize indicators better across institutions. The main goal of this work is to establish an "evaluation culture" at each AGEP institution that would be guided by a central framework across institutions and that the individual institutions could adapt to their local circumstances.