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Appendix E: Advancing Our Understanding of Engineering Education Pathways, Employment Dynamics, and Economic Impact Through the Innovative Use of Administrative Data
Appendix E: Advancing Our Understanding of Engineering Education Pathways, Employment Dynamics, and Economic Impact Through the Innovative Use of Administrative Data
Pages 182-197
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Developing a comprehensive nuanced understanding surrounding the factors influencing engineering students' education and workforce engagement and success cannot be accomplished without the use of administrative data. With a growing body of evidence showing the power of administrative data, future data collection on engineering pathways should make such data sets easier to access, link, and report on, while facilitating the programmatic responses needed to support this new increased and personalized understanding of an individual's education to workforce pathway.
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CHALLENGES OF ADMINISTRATIVE DATA The innovative use of administrative data sets offers a uniquely comprehensive approach to examining educational and workforce pathways, however, they also offer challenges in their use. The data sets were not initially developed to be used in analysis, nor have most of them been structured in a manner which allows them to be integrated with other datasets.
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LINKAGE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DATA IS IMPERATIVE TO REALIZING ITS VALUE Unlocking the tremendous potential of administrative data to understand educational and workforce pathways requires combining data by linking together individual records from multiple sources, as well as having the tools and capabilities to perform and visualize the analytics applied to the dataset. Using this approach, researchers could trace the pathways of each individual student throughout their elementary, middle school, and high school years, bringing together demographic elements with transcript data such as grades, activities, and test scores.
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The U.S. Census Bureau is also a key partner in IRIS, which enables university administrative data to be integrated with restricted Census data products such as the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD)
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Two examples highlighting the power of administrative data in better understanding engineering education and workforce pathways are presented below. Understanding the Impact Undergraduate Research Engagement on Educational Outcomes A pilot project at a large public university has successfully linked record level student transcript data with research expenditures on federal grants to examine the role, if any, undergraduate research plays on student graduation rates and academic performance.
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TABLE E-1 Educational outcomes for students participating in undergraduate research experiences. Paid on Federal Completed Research Paid on Federal Research Grant All Students Research Grant Course and Completed Research Course (n=)
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. Figure E-4 shows the reported earnings profiles based on Maryland Unemployment Insurance Wage Records for the 2005 electrical engineering graduates (upper panel)
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, the potential exists to address a number of topics which are of significant interest and concern for the engineering, higher education, business and policy-maker communities. Engineering Education Migration Patterns and Student Retention Administrative data will allow colleges/universities to gain a new, real-time understanding of student migration and retention in engineering.
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Standardized test scores and high school transcript data combined with undergraduate transcript data can offer insight into student success or failure in particular core engineering, math, or science courses, allowing institutions to alter their curriculum and/or provide more directed support measures such as evidence-based high-impact practices to promote success in these subjects. High impact practices could include summer bridge programs creating learning communities, undergraduate research or internships, all specifically designed to address the needs of the students identified through the data.
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Engineering Employment Choices Administrative data will also allow colleges/universities to track their engineering graduates, transfer students, and non-graduates, into the workforce. Student transcript data can then be combined with state and federal government datasets to track students out of colleges/university and into the workforce.
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Again using student transcript data combined with state and federal government datasets, employment and wages can be longitudinally traced for engineering graduates and for individuals employed in engineering positions. This administrative data will allow researchers to track the wages, employer, employer size, employer industry sector, and length of employment (among other data)
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In addition to the administrative data sources mentioned in the previous section, data on income taxes, property taxes, home sales, and patent applications can be linked to examine the economic impact of engineering graduates. Using this data, a concrete comparison of the economic footprint of engineering graduates could be made with non-engineering graduates.
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At the national level, the Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Grant Program has given out hundreds of millions of dollars in grants since 2005 to support the design, development, implementation, and expansion of longitudinal data systems, including student records, from early childhood through workforce (P-20W)
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Engineering faculty, college and university administrators, policy-makers, foundations, government agencies, and employers need to understand the benefits of administrative data to bring together the field or sector on a national level. METHODOLOGY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION EXAMPLES Understanding the Impact Undergraduate Research Engagement on Educational Outcomes The initial findings we report here are derived from a pilot project that links record level transcript data collected under a campus-wide learning analytics initiative with record level data on direct cost research expenditures from federal grants on the same campus.
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The actual password protected transfer of encrypted records was through a secure electronic portal. Maryland Unemployment Insurance Wage Records are maintained by the Jacob France Institute under an Interagency Agreement that has been renewed annually since 1991.
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Different permissible use and disclosure requirements are applicable to the two data sources, because Bureau of Labor Statistics fund contribute to support of each state's Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program.
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