Improving Skills and Capabilities in the Conduct of Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions

9523700 Russell这个为期五年的项目将支持各种旨在促进使用由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和美国教育部国家教育统计中心（NCES）维护的国家数据库的活动。受资助者机构研究协会（AIR）将组织和管理一个项目，以支持使用这些数据库的研究人员获得几种类型的奖励。该项目将由三个部分组成。第一个组成部分将支持向个人提供研究金，以支持在华盛顿特区的现场工作。预计项目将利用国家数据库，并为研究员提供重要的专业发展经验。第二项将支持获奖者所在机构的研究工作，要么是国家数据库的研究工作，要么是有助于全面了解高等教育的研究工作，要么是有助于高等教育工作人员专业发展的研究工作。第三部分将提供小额赠款，用于交流和传播有关国家科学基金会和国家科学研究中心数据库内容的信息以及利用这些数据库进行分析的技术。这一组成部分下的活动可包括小型会议或讨论会、支助大型会议的特别会议、特别出版物或其他传播活动。所有项目的成果将通过各种方式向用户社区传播。该项目将由AIR的执行干事管理，该干事将公布项目资金的可用性，组织和组织审查小组来评估个别提案。奖助金和奖学金咨询委员会将提供计划方向和优先次序的指导；NSF和NCES将派代表参加委员会。其他成员将广泛代表高等教育研究界。该项目的好处包括提高高等教育和科学与工程教育问题的可见度，并通过更多地使用和审查现有数据源来提高数据质量。

9523700 Russell This five-year project will support a variety of activities designed to promote the use of national databases maintained by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U. S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The grantee, the Association for Institutional Research (AIR, will organize and administer a program to support several types of awards to investigators using these data bases. The project will consist of three components. The first component would support fellowships to individuals, to support on-site work in Washington, DC Project would be expected to utilize national databases and also provide a significant professional development experience to the fellow. The second would support research work at the awardees home institution, either on national databases or work of such a nature that it will contribute to an overall understanding of postsecondary education or to the professional development of personnel working in postsecondary education. The third component would provide small grants for communicating and disseminating information about the content of the NSF and NCES databases and techniques for utilization of these databases for analysis. Activities under this component could include small meetings or seminars, support for special sessions at larger meetings, special publications, or other dissemination activities. Results from all projects will be disseminated through a variety of means to the user community. This project will be administered by the Executive Officer of the AIR, which will publicize the availability of project funds, organize and conduct review panels for evaluating individual proposals. A Grant and Fellowship Advisory Committee will provide guidance on program direction and priorities; NSF and NCES will be represented on the committee. Other members will be broadly representative of the higher education research community. The project offers benefits including greater visibility of issues in postsecondary education and science and engineering education, and improved data quality fostered by greater use and scrutiny of existing data sources.