CSTED Reports

Research and Training Program Evaluation

• Evaluation of the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Program 2001-2006
       - Executive Summary (PDF, 110 KB)
       - Final Report (PDF, 1,096 KB)
       - Appendix: Data Tables (Excel, 601 KB)
  



• Evaluation of the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program 2001-2005
       - Report (PDF, 0.5 MB)
       - Appendix C (PDF, 0.6 MB)
  Data collection for the study was conducted through two online surveys, one in the summer and fall of 2004, and one in the spring of 2006. The 2004 survey population included all 2002 and 2003 participants in ENG RET Site awards and all 2001 to 2003 participants in ENG RET Supplement awards made by the Engineering Research Centers (ERC) Program, the Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems (BES), and the Division of Design, Manufacture, and Industrial Innovation (DMII). The 2006 survey population included 2004 and 2005 participants in all RET Site and Supplement awards made through ENG. The results reported here are based on the 631 responses from the two surveys combined.
  


• Evaluation of the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program 2005
  In FY 2001 the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) initiated the Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Program. The Program is intended to bring knowledge of engineering and technological innovation to the pre-college classroom. The primary objective of evaluation was to better understand how the RET experiences of the 2001-2003 ENG RET participants affected their teaching techniques, attitudes about teaching, and professional development activities. Outcomes and impacts beyond the teachers’ own classrooms, such as knowledge transfer activities, formal partnerships formed between the RET Principal Investigator (PI) and the teacher's school system/district also were examined.
  


• Report on Knowledge Transfer Activities in Connection with Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Final Report 2006
  


• Evaluation of NSF Support for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (URO): Draft Synthesis Report
       - Executive Summary (PDF, 63 KB)
       - Report (PDF, 200 KB)
  


• Evaluation of NSF Support for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (URO): 2005 Follow Up Survey of Undergraduate NSF Program Participants
       - Report (PDF, 0.5 MB)
       - Appendix: A Questionnaire (Word, 0.4 MB)
       - Appendix: B Data Tables (Excel, 0.8 MB)
  


• Evaluation of NSF Support for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (URO): 2004 Survey of Social, Behavioral, or Economic Sciences (SBES) Graduates
       - Report (PDF, 0.3 MB)
       - Appendix: A. Questionnaire (Word, 0.3 MB)
       - Appendix: B Data Tables (Excel, 0.7 MB)
  


• Evaluation of NSF Support for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (URO): 2003 Survey of Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) Graduates
       - Report (PDF, 0.3 MB)
       - Appendix: A. Questionnaire (Word, 0.3 MB)
       - Appendix: B Data Tables (Excel, 0.6 MB)
  


• Evaluation of NSF Support for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (URO):  2003 NSF-Program Participant Survey
       - Report (PDF, 0.4 MB)
       - Appendices: A. Advisory Panel, B. Study Design, C. Questionnaires (Word, 2.7 MB)
       - Appendices: D, E Data Tables (Excel, 1.2 MB)
  


• Outcomes and Impacts of the National Science Foundation's Program of Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships 2004
        - Report (PDF, 0.5 MB)
        - Appendix A. Survey Questionnaire (PDF, 0.1 MB)
        - Appendix B. Data Tables (PDF, 0.2 MB)
        - Appendix C. Data Tables, National (PDF, 0.1 MB)
  


• Metroplex Higher Education Benchmarking Study and Enhancement Strategy 2002
  SRI International prepared a higher education benchmarking study for the Dallas Citizens Council. The Dallas Citizens Council wanted the study to inform the Council's strategy in helping to elevate one or more of the universities in the Dallas-Fortworth Metroplex to Tier I status in a way that complements the continued growth and strength of other Texas flagship institutions.
       - Report (PDF, 1.6 MB)
       - Appendix (PDF, 1.7 MB)
  


• Evaluation of the National Science Foundation's Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement (UFE) Program 2001
  For the National Science Foundation, SRI conducted an independent evaluation of the Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement (UFE) program. In addition to reporting descriptive information about the program, this study provides the first systematic examination of associations between various characteristics of the workshops and their impact on faculty participants' subsequent development and implementation of courses.
  


• Evaluation of the National Science Foundation's Centers for Learning and Teaching (CLT) program 2005
       - Executive Summary (PDF, 0.1 MB)
       - Report (PDF, 0.8 MB)
       - Appendix (PDF, 0.9 MB)
  This report describes the implementation of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Centers for Learning and Teaching (CLT) program, from the program’s beginning in Fiscal Year 2000 through the startup activities of its fourth cohort, in Fiscal Year 2003. It also presents Center participants’ perceptions of the value added by the program’s emphasis on institutional collaboration to achieve multiple goals. The CLT program is designed to employ collaborative partnerships among doctoral-granting institutions, local education agencies, and other education organizations to address a range of shortand long-term issues in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at the K-12 level. These issues include the retirement of higher education faculty who prepare educators, inadequate content knowledge among teachers, and the paucity of research on contemporary STEM education topics. Each Center is awarded approximately $10M.