| Session Title: Indicators for Evaluating Pipeline Programs |
| Think Tank Session 311 to be held in Suwannee 14 on Thursday, Nov 12, 1:40 PM to 3:10 PM |
| Sponsored by the Pre-K - 12 Educational Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Tom McKlin, The Findings Group, tom.mcklin@gmail.com |
| Discussant(s): |
| Betsy Bizot, Computing Research Association, bizot@cra.org |
| Sarah Hug, University of Colorado at Boulder, hug@colorado.edu |
| Daryl Chubin, American Association for the Advancement of Science, dchubin@aaas.org |
| Abstract: Many federal and state funders focus on pipeline programs, projects designed to move participants along a pre-determined path such as from high school to undergraduate to graduate school and into a career in a specific domain. Funders spend hundreds of millions of dollars supporting these programs, and they are uniquely difficult to evaluate. A team of evaluators working on a set of National Science Foundation programs has spent months drafting a set of common, core indicators that may be applied across all pipeline evaluations. Therefore, this think tank will present the draft of common, core indicators; seek critical feedback from other evaluators; test the indicators by asking other evaluators to envision applying the indicators to their own programs, and brainstorm improvements. |