Expanding Access to and Participation in the Multiple Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development

扩大对多机构数据库的访问和参与，以研究工程纵向发展

• 批准号: 1545667
• 负责人: Matthew Ohland
• 金额: $ 426.1万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-03-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1545667&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Expanding; Access; Participation; Multiple; Institution

This project seeks to expand the number of institutions participating in The Multiple-Institution Database for Investigating Longitudinal Development (MIDFIELD). MIDFIELD is a resource enabling the study of students that includes longitudinal, whole population data for multiple institutions. Retention, measured in various ways, has been the dominant mode of studying student success in engineering education and in higher education in general. However, simply studying who matriculates and who graduates does not tell the complete story of a student's path through the engineering curriculum nor should it be used as a measure of an institution. A national, longitudinal student unit-record database would enable study of engineering programs and benchmark metrics consistently. MIDFIELD has already been proven to facilitate data on student matriculation habits disaggregated across various engineering disciplines, ethnicities and genders. However is value as a predictive tool has also been somewhat limited due to the small (eleven) number of institutions who have provided their student data.This project will enable the expansion of the MIDFIELD database to include a total of 103 institutions. With input from university data managers, engineering education administrators, specialists in high volume data archiving and the community of researchers, this work will result in a database containing over 1.05 million students. More specifically the data will represent over 50% of the U.S. engineering undergraduate degrees awarded and increase the diversity of institutions in the dataset. MIDFIELD will now include public and private institutions, minority serving institutions, and institutions from a broad range of research classifications. The sheer scope and longitude of MIDFIELD will enable significant improvements in research in higher education. It will enable the development of research capacity to examine student characteristics (race/ethnicity/gender/social class) and curricular pathways (including coursework) by institution and over time. Furthermore, this project will utilize workshops as well as asynchronous training modules to educate the broader research community, expanding the network of researchers capable of conducting this research and the sharing of innovative research methods in addition to the actual data. Finally, because the dataset contains students records of all students matriculating over a period of time, researchers can study students across all disciplines, not solely engineering.Due to the broad nature of the disciplines represented by MIDFIELD, this project has cross-Directorate support from the Directorates of Engineering, Math and Physical Sciences (MPS), and Education and Human Resources (EHR) as well as the Office of Integrative Activities (OIA). Within the MPS Directorate, this work is supported by Astronomy, and Physics; within EHR, this work is supported by the EHR Core Research (ECR) program. The ECR program emphasizes fundamental STEM education research that generates foundational knowledge in the field. Investments are made in critical areas that are essential, broad and enduring: STEM learning and STEM learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development.

该项目旨在扩大参与纵向发展多机构数据库（MIDFIELD）的机构数量。 MIDFIELD 是一种能够对学生进行研究的资源，其中包括多个机构的纵向整体人口数据。通过各种方式衡量的保留率一直是研究工程教育和高等教育中学生成功的主要模式。 然而，仅仅研究谁入学和谁毕业并不能完整地讲述学生学习工程课程的过程，也不应该将其用作衡量一个机构的标准。全国性的纵向学生单位记录数据库将使工程项目和基准指标的研究保持一致。 MIDFIELD 已被证明可以提供按不同工程学科、种族和性别分类的学生入学习惯数据。 然而，由于提供学生数据的机构数量较少（11 个），其作为预测工具的价值也受到一定限制。该项目将使 MIDFIELD 数据库扩展到包括总共 103 个机构。通过大学数据管理员、工程教育管理员、大容量数据归档专家和研究人员社区的投入，这项工作将建立一个包含超过 105 万名学生的数据库。 更具体地说，这些数据将代表超过 50% 的美国授予的工程本科学位，并增加数据集中机构的多样性。 MIDFIELD 现在将包括公立和私立机构、少数族裔服务机构以及各种研究类别的机构。 MIDFIELD 的庞大范围和经度将使高等教育研究取得重大进展。它将促进研究能力的发展，以按机构和时间的推移检查学生特征（种族/民族/性别/社会阶层）和课程途径（包括课程作业）。 此外，该项目将利用研讨会和异步培训模块来教育更广泛的研究界，扩大有能力进行这项研究的研究人员网络，并分享除实际数据之外的创新研究方法。最后，由于数据集包含一段时间内所有入学学生的记录，研究人员可以研究所有学科的学生，而不仅仅是工程学。由于 MIDFIELD 所代表学科的广泛性，该项目得到了来自各个部门的跨部门支持。工程、数学和物理科学局 (MPS)、教育和人力资源局 (EHR) 以及综合活动办公室 (OIA)。在 MPS 理事会内，这项工作得到了天文学和物理学的支持；在 EHR 范围内，这项工作得到了 EHR 核心研究 (ECR) 计划的支持。 ECR 项目强调基础 STEM 教育研究，产生该领域的基础知识。 投资针对重要、广泛和持久的关键领域：STEM 学习和 STEM 学习环境、扩大 STEM 参与以及 STEM 劳动力发展。