AGEP Longitudinal Study - AGEP LS

AIR将对美国国家科学基金会进行为期3年的纵向研究？研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）计划。拟议的项目以AIR AGEP研究的成就为基础，并扩大了以前和目前以AGEP为重点的国家评价工作。通过更新现有的补助金，AGEP-LS将利用现有的数据，从获得博士学位的调查（SED）和博士学位获得者的调查（SDR），以跟踪全国招生和完成趋势的代表性不足的少数民族在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域以及在社会，行为和经济科学（SBE）。AIR还将部署一个软件系统，AGEP跟踪系统和注册表（AGEP-TSR），收集AGEP学生的个人数据，以跟踪他们在联盟和校园一级参与AGEP支持的活动。通过AGEP-TSR，纵向研究将能够说明个人层面的结果和长期的劳动力结果。通过AGEP-TSR，AIR将系统地监测参与AGEP联盟的长期业绩，并能够定期调查学生参与者。最后，随着时间的推移，AIR将与九个联盟中的每一个联盟的学生、教师和AGEP项目管理人员进行密集的案例研究。拟议的研究将是第一个衡量AGEP对受控制的学生和教职员工群体的长期影响，并评估AGEP支持的机构改革活动在一段可衡量的时间内的影响。AGEP-LS也将是评估AGEP SBE计划在这些领域对少数民族学生影响的第一次努力。因此，这项研究将推进我们对AGEP如何影响STEM和SBE博士生的教育成功以及教授多元化的认识和理解。 AGEP明确旨在增加STEM和SBE博士生和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。通过这项研究，随着时间的推移，有关计划效力的经验教训将传播到AGEP联盟和更广泛的高等教育界。通过具体的传播战略，研究结果旨在扩大代表性不足的群体对研究生教育的参与和关键领域的教授。

AIR will conduct a 3-year longitudinal study of the National Science Foundation?s Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program. The proposed project builds on the accomplishments of AIR AGEP studies and expands upon previous and the current AGEP focused national evaluation work. By renewing the existing grant, AGEP-LS will draw on extant data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) and the Survey of Doctoral Recipients (SDR) to track national enrollment and completion trends of underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields as well as in the social, behavioral and economic sciences (SBE).AIR will also deploy a software system, the AGEP-Tracking System and Registry (AGEP-TSR), to collect individual level data on AGEP students that will track their participation in AGEP supported activities at the alliance and campus levels. Through AGEP-TSR, the longitudinal study will be able to account for individual level outcomes and longer-term workforce outcomes. Through AGEP-TSR, AIR will systematically monitor performance of the participating AGEP Alliances over time and also be able to survey student participants at regular intervals. Finally, AIR will conduct intensive case studies over time with fixed cohorts of students, faculty, and AGEP program administrators within each of nine AlliancesIntellectual Merit. The proposed study would be the first to measure AGEP impact over time on a controlled population of students and faculty and to evaluate the effects of AGEP-supported institutional transformation activities over a measured time period. AGEP-LS also will be the first effort to evaluate the influence of the AGEP SBE program in these fields with minority students. As such, the study will advance what we know and understand about how AGEP affects the educational success of STEM and SBE doctoral students and the diversification of the professoriate.Broader Impact. AGEP is explicitly designed to increase minority representation in STEM and SBE doctoral production and in the professoriate, but the field needs to know more about how program components work. Lessons learned about program efficacy over time through this study will be disseminated to the AGEP Alliances and to the broader higher education community. Through specific dissemination strategies, the study findings are intended to broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in graduate education and the professoriate in key fields.