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NRC and other data on PhD programs - National activity

This site is NOT being updated Sept 2010!  Except for link immediately below.  For general and CU-Boulder NRC material see http://www.colorado.edu/pba/nrc/. 

 Passworded Excel and SAS datasets for AAUDE, Sept 20 - Sept 28 2010

Material below NOT UPDATED

1: Graduate education data activities of the AAU, AAUDE, AAU IDC, and AGS. April 2008 to March 2009 -- grad ed working group, graduate exit survey, AAUDE and AAU grad ed task forces/working groups. Also explorations of local capture of the SED.

2:Activities relevant to NRC study of the research doctorate

Julie Carpenter-Hubin of Ohio State University and Lou McClelland of the University of Colorado at Boulder have been monitoring NRC progress and issues for AAUDE, the AAU data exchange.

• Schedule, timing, calendar:  Of report/results release: Summary || List of press articles   || Of collection, review, all activity -- Cathy Lebo, Johns Hopkins, Jan 14 2009 

• MIT newsletter article and presentation for deans and faculty (February 2010)
• Stanford update and communication plan (October 2009, PDF) and department data sheets (sample | data only | definitions only )
• Guide to Statistical Analysis Employed in the NRC, Vijay Nair and Kerby Shedden, U of Michigan Department of Statistics, 9/09. Posted 2/10.

• Comparison of the 1993 study (released 1995) and the 2006 study (release 2009) - Methods, participation, more.  Roberta Bell, Vanderbilt.   Paper  ||  Excel with additional calculations

• NRC institutions, programs, and fields - Preliminary characterizations of 11/08 listings -- Lou McClelland, Colorado

Remaining material has not been revised since Jan '08

• Institutional handling of program questionnaire items E3 and E4, on financial support. AAUDE and Colonial, January 2008.

• From and following CGS (Council of Graduate Schools) meeting, December 2007
  - Notes from presentations
  - Issues related to the notes on presentations

• NRC data validation plans, 12-4-07

• NRC Program Questionnaire data - all program questionnaire results from institutions agreeing to be part of the AAUDE NRC data sharing (download as SAS and/or SPSS datasets)
  Please email Julie Carpenter-Hubin to request the user ID and password
  - Institution by all programs data with NRC field as of 1/28/08 SAS SPSS
  - HEDS institution by all programs data as of 1/28/08 SAS SPSS
  - Chemistry and philosophy data with NRC field as of 1/28/08 SAS SPSS
  - Schools exchanging data
  - Data sharing rules -  AAUDEColonialIRDataSharingRules.xls as of 1/28/08



• From the 10/07 Columbus NRC practitioners workshop, AAUDE and Colonial IR
  • Agenda -- AAUDEColonialIRAgenda.doc
  • List of participants - AAUDEColonialIRParticipantList.xls
  • Notes from the meeting -- AAUDEColonialIRConferenceNotes.doc
  • About time to degree - Chad Munz, Maryland - AAUDEColonialIR_TTD.ppt
  • About info on postdocs - Emily Thomas, Stony Brook - AAUDEColonialIRPostdocs.pdf
  
  
• Displays and uses of NRC data, dataset structures at the U of Colorado - Oct 2007



• NRC behind the scenes survey, October 2007



• AAU activities on graduate education data (Word), Updated 11/29 after AAU graduate education data task force phone conference.





• Comments on "Survey of Program Quality," (Word) 3/30



• Calculation of completion rates from MPR variables (Excel) - Lou McClelland, 3/9/07
  
  
• Memo to AAU graduate deans (Word) for their AGS (Association of Graduate Schools) meeting,
  Los Angeles, 9/17-20/06. Prepared 9/15/06.
• NRC West Coast IC meeting, Irvine, 9/20/2006.
  - Meeting notes by Lou McClelland (Word), U of Colorado at Boulder, attending by phone. Prepared 9/25/06.
  - Issues and decisions matrix (Word), compiled by Krisztina Marton, head of the NRC team for MPR (Mathematica Policy Research) - Received by AAUDE on 9/28/06.
• NRC Midwest IC meeting, Chicago, 9/27/06.
  - Meeting notes (Word) by Julie Carpenter-Hubin at Ohio State University with Christine Keller at the University of Kansas and Rebecca Bryant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prepared 9/28/06.
• NRC East Coast IC meeting, Washington D.C., 9/29/06.
  - Draft meeting notes (Word) by Cathy Lebo at Johns Hopkins University with Lydia Snover at MIT, Jed Marsh at Princeton, and John Scanlon at Columbia. Updated 10/06/06. Sent to NRC on/before 10/3 for review and response. Penn State clarified two questions in section 7 on 10/5.



• Systematic compilations (Word) AAUDE will be looking for 10/10/06, written 10/08/06. (Word)



• Letter to AAU chief academic officers (PDF), 10/17/06, from Ostriker and Hinshaw, chair and vice-chair of NRC Committee to Assess Research Doctorate Programs. (PDF)



• File layout specification for institutional questionnaire uploads.  As sent to Illinois 10/5/06.
  - Layout, variable names, variable labels for ASCII, Excel, SAS (one count per row) (Excel)
  - Excel template as on questionnaire (row = cohort, many measures per row)



• Final NRC program & field lists at AAU institutions
  - for AAUDE institutions (ask IR@colorado.edu for a password)



• Collecting program questionnaire data for AAUDE institutions (ask IR@colorado.edu for a password)



• Response rates (Excel) to the faculty questionnaire by field for AAUDE institutions (ask IR@colorado.edu for a password IF you provided data).

Last revision 09/17/10