National AGEP Evaluation

国家AGEP评估

• 批准号: 0823766
• 负责人: Courtney Tanenbaum
• 金额: $ 120.7万
• 依托单位: American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-10-01 至 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0823766&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: National; AGEP; Evaluation

ABSTRACTDRL-0823766Study Overview. AIR will conduct a two-year, two phased evaluation of the National Science Foundation?s Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) grant program. Phase One consists of a rigorous quantitative evaluation, using extant data conscience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) Ph.D. enrollment and completion trends across the nation. The data sources will be the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), the Integrated Postsecondary Data System (IPEDS), and the National Student Clearinghouse?s StudentTracker Database. During Phase One, national trends discovered in analyzing these data will be compared to trends AGEP institutions. During Phase Two AIR will explain trends at AGEP-supported institutions identified in Phase One and will detail the role that AGEP has played in creating a diverse community of graduate students in pursuit of the Ph.D. in STEM disciplines. Phase Two will draw data from site visits and from surveys that will be administered to various stakeholder groups, i.e. faculty supervising AGEP supported STEM dissertations, and current and former AGEP supported students. The study will determine the value-added by AGEP and the role the program plays in creating a diverse graduate population and, subsequently, a racially and ethnically diverse STEM professoriate. The study will draw on the substantial intellectual and technological resources of AIR, one of the world?s pre-eminent educational research firms.Intellectual Merit. The proposed study is the first national evaluation of NSF?s AGEP. AGEP is one of the most innovative national approaches to recruiting and retaining minority students in STEM doctoral programs and ensuring the completion of their degrees. As such, this study will advance knowledge and understanding about how this program affects the diversity of STEM graduate students and the diversification of the STEM professoriate. It will broaden the field?s understanding of important recruitment, teaching and student support strategies for getting underrepresented minority students into faculty positions within STEM disciplines. The study will provide new data on the efficacy of these strategies at AGEP universities and determine how the outcomes of these strategies compare with outcomes at other institutions. Ultimately, this knowledge can change the training of future generations of scholars. The diverse AIR team of researchers taking on this task is recognized for its dedication, commitment and quality of work on the issues impacting educational achievement of minority students. The proposed mixed method design is appropriate for understanding AGEP, for unmasking the discreet nuances that differentiate the AGEP models on different campuses, and for identifying the common components that lead to the Alliances? success. The conceptual organization of the study adheres to high standards of rigor and research and can be accomplished with the resources proposed and the research infrastructure of the American Institutes for Research.Broader Impacts. As the global economy depends increasingly on the kinds of innovations and ideas made possible by a highly educated workforce, the United States will need to increase the number of American citizens who pursue advanced degrees in STEM disciplines. Shifts in our demographic makeup, in turn, make on-going concerns about educational equity for all sectors of the community increasingly important, and getting underrepresented minorities to pursue advanced degrees in STEM disciplines becomes an ever more important concern. AGEP is explicitly designed to increase minority representation in STEM doctoral production and in the STEM professoriate, but the field needs to know more about how program components work. Lessons learned about program efficacy through this evaluation will be disseminated to the AGEP alliances and to the broader higher education community. In the dissemination and replication, the study will help broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM education and the professoriate.

摘要DRL-0823766研究概述。AIR将对美国国家科学基金会进行为期两年、分两个阶段的评估？研究生教育联盟和教授（AGEP）赠款计划。第一阶段包括严格的定量评估，使用现有的数据良心，技术，工程和数学（STEM）博士。全国范围内的入学和完成趋势。数据来源将是获得博士学位的调查（SED），综合中学后数据系统（IPEDS）和国家学生信息交换中心？学生跟踪数据库。在第一阶段，分析这些数据时发现的国家趋势将与AGEP机构的趋势进行比较。在第二阶段，AIR将解释第一阶段确定的AGEP支持机构的趋势，并将详细介绍AGEP在创建一个追求博士学位的研究生多元化社区方面所发挥的作用。在STEM学科。第二阶段将从现场访问和调查中获取数据，这些调查将对各个利益相关者群体进行管理，即监督AGEP支持的STEM论文的教师，以及当前和以前AGEP支持的学生。该研究将确定AGEP的附加值以及该计划在创建多样化的毕业生群体以及随后的种族和民族多样化的STEM教授方面所发挥的作用。这项研究将利用大量的知识和技术资源的空气，一个世界？的卓越的教育研究公司。这项研究是NSF的第一个国家评估？s AGEP。AGEP是在STEM博士课程中招募和留住少数民族学生并确保完成学位的最具创新性的国家方法之一。因此，这项研究将促进知识和了解这个程序如何影响STEM研究生的多样性和STEM教授的多样化。会拓宽视野吗？的重要招聘，教学和学生支持战略的理解，让代表性不足的少数民族学生进入教师职位在STEM学科。这项研究将提供关于这些战略在AGEP大学的效力的新数据，并确定这些战略的结果与其他机构的结果如何比较。最终，这些知识可以改变未来几代学者的培训。多元化的研究人员承担这项任务的空气团队是公认的奉献精神，承诺和工作质量的问题影响少数民族学生的教育成就。建议的混合方法设计是适当的理解AGEP，揭露区分AGEP模型在不同的校园的谨慎的细微差别，并确定共同的组成部分，导致联盟？成功研究的概念组织坚持严格和研究的高标准，可以用美国研究所的资源和研究基础设施来完成。随着全球经济越来越依赖于受过高等教育的劳动力所带来的各种创新和想法，美国将需要增加攻读STEM学科高级学位的美国公民数量。反过来，我们人口结构的变化，使社会各界对教育公平的持续关注变得越来越重要，让代表性不足的少数民族攻读STEM学科的高级学位成为一个越来越重要的问题。AGEP明确旨在增加STEM博士生和STEM教授中的少数民族代表性，但该领域需要更多地了解程序组件如何工作。通过这次评估获得的关于计划效力的经验教训将传播给AGEP联盟和更广泛的高等教育界。在传播和复制方面，该研究将有助于扩大STEM教育和教授中代表性不足的群体的参与。