Characterizing and Modeling the Experience of Transfer Students in Engineering

工程转学生经历的表征和建模

• 批准号: 0969474
• 负责人: Matthew Ohland
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0969474&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Characterizing; Modeling; Experience; Transfer; Students

This STEP Type 2 project is a research study of engineering undergraduate students intended to provide new knowledge about transfer of these students between two year and four year colleges. The project is studying how transfer students differ from native students in demographics, outcomes, and trajectories. It explores the contribution of transfer students to the size and diversity of graduating classes, and searches for explanations for observed outcomes. The research team is studying the degree to which engineering students transfer across institutions and pursue undergraduate engineering studies using a longitudinal database of over 700,000 student records that have been previously assembled by the investigators. The qualitative component of this study relies on interviews and focus groups of transfer students to explore the factors that motivated them to transfer out of their institutions, exploring GPA and time-to-degree of engineering students for transfer and native students. The project is expected to contribute to published literature about student progression through the academic cycle and to provide information useful to administrators of colleges and universities for making policy changes about student participation and degree awards.

此 STEP Type 2 项目是一项针对工程本科生的研究，旨在提供有关这些学生在两年制和四年制大学之间转学的新知识。 该项目正在研究转学生与本地学生在人口统计、结果和轨迹方面有何不同。 它探讨了转学生对毕业班级规模和多样性的贡献，并寻找对观察结果的解释。 研究小组正在利用研究人员之前收集的包含超过 700,000 条学生记录的纵向数据库，研究工程专业学生跨院校转学和攻读本科工程研究的学位。这项研究的定性部分依靠对转学生的访谈和焦点小组来探索促使他们转出院校的因素，探索转学生和本地学生的 GPA 和获得学位的时间。该项目预计将有助于出版有关学生在整个学术周期中进步的文献，并为学院和大学的管理人员提供有用的信息，以改变有关学生参与和学位授予的政策。