Understanding Roles of Masters Education in Entry Into, and Upskilling and Reskilling for, the STEM Workforce

了解硕士教育在 STEM 劳动力进入、技能提升和再培训中的作用

• 批准号: 2100343
• 负责人: Suzanne Ortega
• 金额: $ 101.47万
• 依托单位: Council of Graduate Schools
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2100343&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Understanding; Roles; Masters; Education; Entry

The Council of Graduate Schools examines the role of master’s education in STEM education workforce development. The project will contribute to the development of a data infrastructure for future research on master’s education while providing more nuanced insights into labor market outcomes of master’s degrees in STEM by various fields of study, gender, race/ethnicity, and career stages. Investigators will investigate the upskilling/reskilling pathways into master’s education and how different motivations and other factors may explain student choices. The project also will shed light on how master’s education may facilitate transitions to STEM careers for non-STEM undergraduate majors. In addition to providing an evidence base for investments in STEM technical training, the project will contribute to developing a more comprehensive approach to improving STEM master’s education. The research design is guided by the traditional human capital investment perspective where individuals pursue master’s education to gain skills, knowledge, and expertise to increase their career effectiveness and success. Investigators hypothesize that (1) individuals are motivated by their desires to upskill or reskill, thus making themselves more marketable in the labor market; (2) individuals’ intentions to upskill or reskill and decisions to pursue particular master’s degrees will translate into their subsequent job placements and career trajectories. An exit survey of master’s degree recipients from ten U.S. colleges and universities will be used to answer three research questions: (1) What factors are associated with STEM and non-STEM students’ pursuit of master’s degrees in STEM and non-STEM fields? (2) How does attainment of a master’s degree explain persistence or job changes within the STEM workforce. (3) How does the upskilling and reskilling pathways through master’s education differ by subfields and socioeconomic attributes of master’s degree recipients? The survey will include questions from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Survey of Earned Doctorates, Council of Graduate Schools Professional Science Master’s Initiative exit survey, and alumni and student surveys from the NSF Understanding PhD Career Pathways in STEM project. Investigators will perform logistic regression models to analyze the data. The research results will illuminate the role of master’s education in developing a diverse STEM workforce. This project is supported by the EHR Core Research program that funds fundamental research focused on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM professional workforce development.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

研究生院理事会考试硕士教育在STEM教育劳动力发展中的作用。该项目将有助于开发有关硕士教育的未来研究的数据基础设施，同时通过各种研究，性别，种族/种族和职业阶段提供对STEM硕士学位的劳动力市场成果的更加细微的见解。调查人员将调查高技能/重新攻击途径进入硕士的教育，以及不同的动机和其他因素如何解释学生的选择。该项目还将阐明硕士教育如何促进向非茎本科专业的STEM职业过渡。除了为STEM技术培训提供投资的证据基础外，该项目还将有助于开发更全面的方法来改善STEM Master的教育。研究设计以传统的人力资本投资观点为指导，其中个人追求硕士学位的教育以获得技能，了解和专业知识，以提高其职业效率和成功。调查人员假设（1）个人受到对高技能或重罪的渴望的动机，从而使自己在劳动力市场上更具销售； （2）个人对Upskill或Reskill的意图以及追求特定硕士学位的决定将转化为随后的工作安置和职业轨迹。对十个美国大学的硕士学位获得者的退出调查将用于回答三个研究问题：（1）哪些因素与STEM和非STEM学生在STEM和非STEM领域的硕士学位有关？ （2）硕士学位的成就如何解释STEM劳动力内的持久性或工作变化。 （3）通过硕士教育的高技能和重新训练途径如何与硕士学位获得者的子领域和社会经济属性不同？该调查将包括国家科学基金会（NSF）的问题调查，对获得博士学位的调查，研究生院理事会专业科学硕士倡议退出调查以及NSF的校友和学生调查，了解STEM Project中的博士生职业途径。研究人员将执行逻辑回归模型来分析数据。研究结果将阐明硕士教育在发展不同的STEM劳动力方面的作用。该项目得到了EHR核心研究计划的支持，该计划资助了针对STEM学习和学习环境，扩大STEM的参与以及STEM Professional Workerforce Development的基础研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来支持的。