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Pages 27-33

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... summarized the findings and considered them in selecting an approach to protecting confidentiality in the survey in the future. WEB-BASED SURVEY Stephen Cohen reported on the SRS collaboration with the SED contractor to develop and implement a brief web survey to collect information from known users of the Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Fine Field of Study Tables (called here the REG tables)
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From page 28...
... The meetings took place between mid-October and early December 2008 in geographically dispersed locations in order to reach a range of institutions and associations. A sample of job titles of the institutional participants includes assistant vice chancellor, associate vice provost for academic affairs, associate vice president for research, dean, and director of institutional research.
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From page 29...
... As a result, in comparison to the web survey, the outreach meetings provided SRS with more comprehensive information about the impacts of the alternatives on the data uses and needs of these SED data users, as well as a deeper understanding of their preferences for the particular attributes of the different alternatives, albeit from a smaller group of respondents. The outreach meetings followed a common agenda.
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From page 30...
... production for un derrepresented minorities • Developing programs -- to establish baselines for developing new STEM-focused doctoral programs • Implementing programs -- such as tracking students' com pletion rates • Identifying top producers of STEM Ph.D.s to underrepre sented minorities -- using data to identify best practices and to recognize top STEM departments • Responding to data requests in a timely and informed manner SOURCE: Workshop presentation by Shirley McBay. Later in each meeting, participants described their uses of SED data and the impacts of data suppression, assessed the utility of the alternative disclosure protection approaches for their particular data uses, and expressed their preferences.
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From page 31...
... Ensure that summary data tables include data on U.S. citizens and permanent residents to get a more accurate picture of the complete pool of STEM doctoral degree recipients in the United States, and revisit the policy of placing respondents who indicate more than one race in the "other" category (in conjunction with the implementa tion of the new standards for reporting race and ethnicity as directed by the Office of Management and Budget, which require separate reporting of people who indicate more than one race)
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From page 32...
... • Take steps to ensure that significant racial/ethnic diversity exists among the leaders, conveners, and participants in data workshops conducted with SRS support. CONCLUSIONS Cohen referred to the NSF decision paper to summarize the preferences gleaned from analysis of the web-based survey and the outreach meetings (National Science Foundation, 2009)
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... Institu tions are familiar with CIP codes and report data to the Depart ment of Education using them.
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