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Appendix D: Program Evaluation Information Provided by the Agencies
Appendix D: Program Evaluation Information Provided by the Agencies
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Appendix D Program Evaluation Information Provided by the Agencies 67
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68 Program Goals Evaluation Criteria for Success Successes USGS National Cooperative • Train students in geologic • Survey of participants and • Number of students • Program benefits participants Geologic Mapping Program mapping providers educated in geologic mapping (EdMap) • Help fund academic techniques research • Prepare students for real-world careers in the geosciences • Create collaborations between academic institutions, state geological surveys, and the USGS • Contribute to national geologic mapping efforts USGS/NAGT Cooperative • Provide an opportunity to • Surveys of participants and • Number of participants • Excellent interns are placed in Summer Field Training partner a highly able intern providers • Success of participants in research units Program with a quality science mentor earth science careers • Program quality is recognized by to work on a meaningful USGS and earth science academic research project community • Present research results at professional meetings or in refereed publications USGS Youth Internship • Stimulate ongoing interest • Reports by participants • Fraction of participants • Most available slots are filled Program in science among college and providers that obtained permanent jobs • Many interns accept positions at undergraduates • Program satisfaction USGS • Build a pool of well prepared new college graduates who could fill vacancies in the USGS USGS Hydrologic Technician • Stimulate ongoing interest • Reports by participants • Fraction of participants • Most available slots are filled Internship Program in water science among and providers that obtained permanent jobs • Many interns accept positions at college undergraduates • Program satisfaction USGS • Build a pool of well prepared new college graduates who could fill vacancies in the USGS
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the Geosciences (OEDG) African Americans, a logic model • New partnerships between MSIs Program Hispanic Americans, Native • External reviews every 3 and 4-year and research universities Americans, Native Pacific years by a visiting committee • Better understanding how to Islanders, and persons with • Reports by providers recruit and retain minorities in earth disabilities science • Increase the perceived • Slight increase in number of relevance of the geosciences undergraduate majors among broad and diverse segments of the population NSF Earth Sciences • Recognize beginning • External reviews every 3 • None stated • A high fraction of participants are Postdoctoral Fellowships investigators of significant years by a visiting committee in tenure-track positions potential • Reports by participants on • Participants are active • Provide these individuals research advances scientifically with research and education • Information on career • Some participants have become experience that will establish development of former mentors them in positions of fellows leadership in the scientific community continued 69
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geoscience instruction, • Internal evaluation based • Resources developed and • Institutionalization of effective Program primarily at middle and high on data from course site, how much they have been professional development and school levels participant surveys and used training methods over many products, and provider • Effect of courses on universities surveys and products learner's knowledge of Earth • Funding to create more modules system science and how to
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The first cohort is nearing Program generation of scientific and logic model Office of Science-related the end of the 3-year support period technical talent in the United • Reports by providers and research in academia, a DOE States who will pursue participants laboratory, or industry careers in research critical to • Longitudinal tracking of the Office of Science mission participants • External review of WDTS portfolio in 2010 • External reviews every 3 years by a visiting committee continued 71
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Program careers logic model degree helped prepare them for a STEM • Pre- and postparticipation • Pursuit of advanced degree career surveys of participants in STEM • More than three-quarters of • Longitudinal tracking of • Preparedness for STEM participants (2003-2011) are participants career pursuing a career in STEM • External review of DOE • Knowledge of DOE laboratories' execution of the mission science and program technology • External review of WDTS portfolio in 2010 Long-term outcomes include • External reviews every 3 • Pursuit of a career in DOE years by a visiting committee Office of Science-related research in academia, a DOE laboratory, or industry DOE Community College • Encourage community • Program goals, outputs, Near-term outcomes include • None specified Internship (CCI)
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programs • Conduct GRACE activities planned • Field trip opportunities for with 500 teachers with students priority given to educators • Increase in knowledge of from underrepresented areas global climate change or with underrepresented • Student interest in STEM audiences careers • Increase the knowledge of 500 secondary teachers about the Earth's history, Earth system science, and global climate change • Increase the knowledge of 500 students about earth science and global climate change • Make available selected activities of "changing mass = changing earth" programs through the University of Texas Center for Space Research Web site • Incorporate NASA satellite data and resources into the activities continued 73
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study in environmentally visiting committee in 2009 • Number of completed Undergraduate Fellowship related fields • Reports by participants degrees Program • Topic area distribution • Professional success of former fellows
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• Increase the number • External review of • Annual number of students • None specified With Minority Serving of educated, trained, cooperative science centers in from underrepresented Institutions and graduated students, their third year communities who are trained particularly from • NRC review of education and graduate in NOAA underrepresented program in 2010 mission sciences communities in STEM fields • Surveys of providers and • Annual number of students that directly support NOAA's participants who are trained and graduate mission in NOAA mission sciences • Increase collaborative • Number of students research efforts between completing experiential NOAA scientists and opportunities at NOAA researchers at NOAA EPP facilities cooperative science centers • Number of students who are hired by NOAA; NOAA contractors; other environmental, natural resource, and science agencies; academia; and the private sector • Number of collaborative research projects undertaken between NOAA and EPP cooperative science centers in support of NOAA operations • Number of students and faculty who participate in and complete postdoctoral-level research programs in support of the NOAA mission continued 75
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76 Program Goals Evaluation Criteria for Success Successes • Number of peer-reviewed papers published in NOAA mission sciences by faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students sponsored by NOAA EPP • Funds leveraged with NOAA EPP funds • Number of participants engaged in NOAA mission-relevant learning opportunities Graduate Sciences Program: Graduate Sciences Program: Graduate Sciences Program: Graduate Sciences Program: • Increase the number • NRC review of education • Number of graduate • None specified of educated, trained, program in 2010 sciences program students and graduated students, • Surveys of providers and hired by NOAA particularly from participants underrepresented communities in STEM fields that directly support NOAA's mission Undergraduate Scholarship Undergraduate Scholarship Undergraduate Scholarship Undergraduate Scholarship Program: Program: Program: Program: • None specified • Increase the number • NRC review of education • Number of undergraduate of educated, trained, program in 2010 scholarship students who and graduated students, • Surveys of providers and are educated, trained, and particularly from participants graduate in NOAA mission underrepresented sciences communities in STEM fields • Number of undergraduate that directly support NOAA's scholarship students who mission pursue graduate work in NOAA mission sciences
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• Number of undergraduate scholarship students who are hired by NOAA, NOAA contractors, and other natural resources and science agencies NPS/GSA Geoscientists-in- • Provide on-the-job • Reports by providers • Completion of unmet earth • Program has grown from 20 the-Parks Program earth science training for science projects in NPS units positions per year in 2007 to more America's youth • Communication of earth than 100 positions per year in 2012 • Build technical capacity science to the public and for parks park staff who are not • Enhance the public's geologists understanding of earth • Program growth science NPS/NAGT Geoscience- • Provide cooperative • Participant feedback • None specified • Teachers gain career enhancement Teachers-in-Parks Program exchange of learning and opportunities scientific research between • Program increases the recognition the park, local earth science of NAGT as a leader in promoting teachers, and communities earth science education • Advance educational and • Teachers sign up as park interpretive opportunities at volunteers and return to the park the park after completing their internship • Develop a lifelong network • Products developed during the with local communities, internship can be used by park staff schools, and the park for other educational purposes • Teachers continue using the park as an educational tool or destination • Students become more familiar with the park as an educational resource and more aware of the need to protect park resources • Teachers and students become stewards of parks and the environment continued 77
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Program NOTE: DOE = Department of Energy; EPA = Environmental Protection Agency; ESSEA = Earth System Science Education Alliance; GSA = Geological Society of America; HBCUs = historically Black colleges and universities; MSI = minority-serving institution; NAGT = National Association of Geoscience Teachers; NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration; NOAA = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NPS = National Park Service; NSF = National Science Foundation; STEM = science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; TESSE = Transforming Earth Systems Science Education; USDA = U.S. Department of Agriculture; USGS = U.S.
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