RDE-BPR1: An Investigation of GI Bill Recipients with Disabilities Pursuit of STEM as a Viable Career Option

RDE-BPR1：对《退伍军人权利法案》接受者的调查，他们将 STEM 作为可行的职业选择

• 批准号: 1246492
• 负责人: Elizabeth Getzel
• 金额: $ 60.69万
• 依托单位: Virginia Commonwealth University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1246492&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RDE; BPR1; Investigation; GI; Bill

This award is a Broadening Participation Research project designed to investigate to what extent GI Bill recipients with disabilities are underrepresented in STEM in public associate and baccalaureate granting institutions, the impact of veteran and disability status on STEM learning, and the organizational factors that lead to more equitable and inviting postsecondary STEM educational environments for GI Bill recipients with disabilities. Participants in this study include veterans and dependents with and without disabilities who use GI Bill benefits to attend public two and four year colleges and universities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The investigation includes five specific research questions.1) To what extent are GI Bill recipients with disabilities participating in STEM programs when compared to GI Bill recipients without disabilities? 2) How does veteran's status affect the interest, performance, persistence, and perceptions of GI Bill recipients with disabilities enrolled in STEM fields? 3) Among GI Bill recipients with disabilities, is type of disability associated with STEM enrollment? 4) What specific supports do key informants of STEM faculty members, campus service professionals (i.e. career center staff, disability support service providers), and certifying officials believe to be the most effective in supporting veterans with disabilities as well as their dependents with disabilities? 5) How do GI Bill recipients with disabilities prioritize the organizational factors which affect recruitment, enrollment and persistence in STEM programs? There are 19,000 veterans and their dependents eligible for the GI Bill in Virginia, and the research is collecting on-line web survey data from 7,600 for their subject pool. The subjects are being recruited through all public two and four year institutions of higher education in Virginia. The surveys are constructed with input from data obtained during structured interviews with STEM faculty members, university officials who certify student eligibility for the GI Bill, veterans with disabilities, disability support professionals, and career center staff at universities and community colleges. To address the specific research questions, data is being collected from 760 veterans, and their dependents with disabilities, who are eligible for the GI Bill in Virginia. Quantitative survey responses from the disabled student subjects are being triangulated with qualitative interviews from 20 of the student veterans with disabilities enrolled in STEM. The research team is using a combination of descriptive and inferential statistical analyses, including appropriate parametric and non-parametric measures.An independent evaluation of the project, which will be conducted by Dr. Donna Jovanovich of Suna Associates, LLC, will include both formative and summative assessments.

该奖项是一个扩大参与研究项目，旨在调查在何种程度上GI法案受助人残疾人在公共协会和学士学位授予机构中的STEM代表性不足，退伍军人和残疾状况对STEM学习的影响，以及导致更公平和邀请的组织因素，为GI法案受助人残疾人的中学后STEM教育环境。 这项研究的参与者包括退伍军人和家属，有残疾和没有残疾的人使用GI法案的好处，参加弗吉尼亚州联邦的公立两年制和四年制学院和大学。 调查包括五个具体的研究问题。1）与没有残疾的GI法案接受者相比，GI法案接受者在多大程度上参与了STEM项目？2)退伍军人的地位如何影响参加STEM领域的残疾人的兴趣，表现，持久性和对GI法案接受者的看法？3)在患有残疾的《退伍军人权利法案》受益人中，残疾类型与STEM入学相关吗？4)STEM教师，校园服务专业人员（即职业中心工作人员，残疾人支持服务提供者）和认证官员的关键信息提供者认为哪些具体支持在支持残疾退伍军人以及他们的残疾家属方面最有效？5)GI法案的残疾人接受者如何优先考虑影响STEM项目招聘、入学和持续性的组织因素？弗吉尼亚州有19,000名退伍军人及其家属有资格获得《退伍军人权利法案》，这项研究正在收集7,600名退伍军人的在线网络调查数据。这些受试者正在弗吉尼亚州所有公立两年制和四年制高等教育机构招募。 这些调查是通过与STEM教师，证明学生符合GI法案资格的大学官员，残疾退伍军人，残疾支持专业人员以及大学和社区学院职业中心工作人员进行结构化访谈时获得的数据进行构建的。为了解决具体的研究问题，正在收集760名退伍军人及其残疾家属的数据，他们有资格获得弗吉尼亚州的GI法案。来自残疾学生主体的定量调查答复与20名参加STEM的残疾退伍军人学生的定性访谈进行了三角分析。 该研究团队正在使用描述性和推理性统计分析相结合，包括适当的参数和非参数测量。该项目的独立评估将由Suna Associates，LLC的Donna Jovanovich博士进行，包括形成性和总结性评估。