Division of Science Resources Studies
Professional Societies Workshop Series
Agenda
- 8:30 to 9:00
- Breakfast and Registration
- 9:00 to 9:30
- Welcome and Introductions
- Jeanne Griffith (Director, Division of Science Resources Studies, NSF)
- Bennett Bertenthal (Assistant Director, Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, NSF)
- 9:30 to 10:00
- Keynote Address: Is Attrition Important, and Why?
- Claudia Mitchell-Kernan (UCLA)
- 10:00 to 10:30
- Attrition: What Can We Measure? What Should We Measure?
- Charlotte Kuh (Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel/ National Research Council)
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- 10:30 to 10:45
- Break
- 10:45 to 12:30
- Uses and Limitations of Different Kinds of Databases
- Moderator: Alan Tupek, Deputy Division Director, Division of Science Resources Studies
- Vincent Tinto (Syracuse University) Contextualizing the Study of Graduate Persistence
- Charlotte Kuh (Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel/National Research Council) Administrative Databases
- Gita Wilder (Educational Testing Service) An ETS Longitudinal Survey
- Mark Regets (Division of Science Resources Studies, NSF) Using the National Surveys of Recent College Graduates (NSRCG) & College Graduates (NSCG) to Study Graduate Student Attrition
- Carolyn Shettle (Division of Science Resources Studies, NSF) Using the Surveys of Earned Doctorates (SED) and Doctoral Recipients (SDR) to Study Graduate Student Attrition
- 12:30 to 1:15
- Lunch
- 1:15 to 2:30
- Qualitative Approaches to Studying Graduate Student Attrition
- Moderator: Carla Howery, American Sociological Association
- Toni Clewell (Urban Institute)Current NSF Project on Graduate Attrition
- Barbara Lovitts (University of Maryland) Contextual Factors in Graduate Student Attrition
- Willie Pearson, Jr. (Wake Forest University) Research on Graduate Student Attrition
- 2:30 to 2:45
- Break
- 2:45 to 4:00
- Professional Society Interest and Data Collection
- Moderator: Catherine Gaddy, Commission on Professionals in
Science and Technology
- Michael Neuschatz (American Institute of Physics) Graduate Attrition in Physics: Some Rough Thoughts and Estimates
- Rocco Russo (Educational Testing Service) Research Topics Addressed by the AAU/AGS Project for Research on Doctoral Education
- Peter Syverson (Council of Graduate Schools) Graduate School-Based Studies of Attrition/Retention
- 4:00 to 5:00
- Future Directions (Group Discussion)
- Moderator: Jeanne Griffith, Director, Division of Science
Resources Studies, NSF
