The AGEP Pilot Impact Study

AGEP 试点影响研究

• 批准号: 0737646
• 负责人: Courtney Tanenbaum
• 金额: $ 19.89万
• 依托单位: American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-01 至 2008-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0737646&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; Pilot; Impact; Study

This is a Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support a pilot study of the impact of NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program. Each AGEP Alliance consists of two or more STEM-related doctorate-granting institutions and may also include non-doctorate-granting (often minority-serving) institutions. Since 1998, the program has provided approximately $2.5 million to each of over 20 Alliances involving almost 150 colleges and universities. Each Alliance works both within and across participating colleges and universities and other Alliances. In addition, Alliances are encouraged to align with other existing programs that are designed to foster minority students' completion of degrees in STEM disciplines (e.g., the Louis-Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation), whether or not these programs are NSF-funded. Within a four-month timeframe, the proposed study will develop a national AGEP program evaluation design, specify sampling and comparison group development, design data-collection tools and test the evaluation methodology at two AGEP projects. With supplemental information from a third AGEP reported on last year, information on the efficacy of the design, the data collection instruments and preliminary outcome data will be reported by October 2007. The information obtained, particularly with respect to the availability of data on program graduates, will inform the design of a national evaluation.

这是美国国家科学基金会 (NSF) 为探索性研究提供的小额赠款 (SGER)，用于支持一项关于 NSF 研究生教育和教授联盟 (AGEP) 计划影响的试点研究。每个 GEP 联盟由两个或多个 STEM 相关的博士学位授予机构组成，还可能包括非博士学位授予机构（通常为少数族裔服务）。自 1998 年以来，该计划已向涉及近 150 所学院和大学的 20 多个联盟中的每一个提供了约 250 万美元。每个联盟在参与的学院和大学以及其他联盟内部和之间开展工作。此外，鼓励联盟与其他旨在促进少数族裔学生完成 STEM 学科学位的现有计划（例如路易斯-斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟）保持一致，无论这些计划是否由 NSF 资助。在四个月的时间内，拟议的研究将制定国家 AGEP 项目评估设计，指定抽样和比较组的开发，设计数据收集工具并测试两个 AGEP 项目的评估方法。根据去年报告的第三次 GEP 的补充信息，有关设计功效、数据收集工具和初步结果数据的信息将于 2007 年 10 月之前报告。所获得的信息，特别是有关方案毕业生数据的可用性，将为国家评估的设计提供信息。