National AGEP Evaluation

abstractdrl - 0823766研究概述。AIR将对美国国家科学基金会进行为期两年、分两阶段的评估。美国研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）资助计划。第一阶段包括严格的定量评估，使用现有的数据良知，技术，工程和数学（STEM）博士学位。全国各地的入学和完成趋势。数据来源将是获得博士学位调查（SED）、综合高等教育数据系统（IPEDS）和国家学生信息交换中心。s StudentTracker数据库。在第一阶段，通过分析这些数据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，并详细说明AGEP在创建追求STEM学科博士学位的研究生多元化社区方面所发挥的作用。第二阶段将从实地考察和调查中获取数据，这些调查将管理给各个利益相关者团体，即监督AGEP支持的STEM论文的教师，以及现在和以前的AGEP支持的学生。这项研究将确定AGEP的价值，以及该项目在培养多样化的毕业生群体以及随后培养种族和民族多样化的STEM教授方面所发挥的作用。这项研究将利用空气质素研究所的大量知识及科技资源。空气质素是世界上最大的空气质素研究所之一。美国杰出的教育研究公司。知识价值。拟议的研究是NSF？AGEP。AGEP是在STEM博士项目中招募和留住少数族裔学生并确保他们完成学位的最具创新性的国家方法之一。因此，本研究将促进对该项目如何影响STEM研究生多样性和STEM教授多样性的认识和理解。它会拓宽领域吗？对于让代表性不足的少数族裔学生进入STEM学科的教职岗位的重要招聘、教学和学生支持策略的理解。该研究将提供关于这些策略在AGEP大学的有效性的新数据，并确定这些策略的结果与其他机构的结果进行比较。最终，这些知识可以改变对未来几代学者的培养。承担这项任务的多元化AIR研究团队因其在影响少数民族学生教育成就的问题上的奉献精神、承诺和工作质量而得到认可。所提出的混合方法设计适合于理解AGEP，揭示不同校园中区分AGEP模型的细微差别，以及识别导致联盟的共同组成部分。成功。该研究的概念性组织遵循严格和研究的高标准，可以通过美国研究所提出的资源和研究基础设施来完成。更广泛的影响。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的数量。反过来，人口构成的变化使得对社会各阶层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族裔在STEM学科中攻读高等学位变得越来越重要。AGEP的明确目的是增加少数族裔在STEM博士培养和STEM教授中的代表性，但该领域需要更多地了解项目组成部分是如何工作的。通过这次评估获得的关于项目效果的经验教训将传播给AGEP联盟和更广泛的高等教育界。在传播和复制的过程中，这项研究将有助于扩大代表性不足的群体参与STEM教育和教授。

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.