Collaborative Research: STEM Education Effects on a Diverse Workforce's Development over the Life Cycle

这项合作研究正在调查来自代表性不足的群体的个人在高中和高等教育期间获得的STEM技能和培训如何有助于他们在STEM劳动力中的成功以及他们现在中年时所从事的职业类型。它使用的是“超越高中”（HS&amp；B）数据库，这是一个自1980年以来对高中二年级学生进行的具有全国代表性的研究。HS&amp；B包含了大量非裔美国人、拉美人、妇女和残疾人的样本，包括那些获得高等教育学位的人，以提供有关我们的教育系统如何让不同的学生充分参与复杂和快速变化的劳动力市场的信息，即使是在中年和晚期。该项目有以下三个目标：1。确定学校STEM培训的各个方面，从具体课程到学位获得和学位领域，这些方面有助于在成年早期和中年后期的工作中取得成功和灵活性。研究问题：哪些STEM技能和培训在(i)早期和（ii）中后期职业生涯中具有较高的劳动力市场价值？分析STEM培训与劳动力成功之间的关系是否对所有工人都相同，如果不是，那么女性和男性，非洲裔美国人，拉丁裔美国人和白人，以及残疾人和非残疾人之间的关系有何不同。研究问题：技能和劳动力市场之间的关系是否适用于代表性不足的群体？建立一个HS&amp；B样本成员职业的数据库，该数据库将通过NCES发布，可用于更广泛的研究界，以产生有关劳动力发展和扩大STEM参与的新知识。

This collaborative study is investigating how the STEM skills and training that individuals from underrepresented groups acquired during high school and postsecondary education have contributed to their STEM workforce success and the types of occupations they now enjoy in midlife. It is uses the High School & Beyond (HS&B) database, a nationally representative study of high school sophomores from 1980. HS&B contains a large sample of African Americans and Latinos, women, and people with disabilities, including those who earned postsecondary degrees, to provide information about how our education system has and can prepare diverse students to fully participate in a complex and rapidly changing workforce, even during middle and later adulthood. The project has the following three aims:1. Identifying the aspects of STEM training in schools, from specific coursework to degree attainment and field of degree, that contribute to workforce success and flexibility during early adulthood and in later midlife work. Research Question: Which STEM skills and training have high labor market value in (i) early and (ii) middle to late careers?2. Analyzing whether the relationship between STEM training and workforce success is the same for all workers, and if not, how it differs for women and men, African Americans, Latinos, and Whites, and for persons with and without disabilities.Research Question: Do the relationships between skills and the labor market generalize to underrepresented groups?3. Producing a database, that will be released through NCES, on HS&B sample members' occupations that can be used by the broader research community to generate new knowledge on workforce development and broadening participation in STEM.