September 18-20, 2008
Agenda
AAAS Headquarters, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005
Thursday, September 18, 2008
| 7:15 am | Bus pick-up at the hotel |
| 8:00 am – 9:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am |
Welcome, Goals, Objectives, & Outcomes of the Meeting |
| 10:00 am – 10:15 am | Break |
| 10:15 am – 11:30 am |
Broadening Participation View presentation, Building Evaluation Capacity [PPT] View presentation, Evaluation of Efforts to Broaden STEM Participation [PPT] |
| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Identifying Methods and Questions
Lessons Learned from Conducting NSF Evaluation Projects |
| 12:30 pm — 1:15 pm | Lunch (Abelson/Haskins Room / 2nd Floor Conference Room) |
| 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm | Preliminary Report on NSF AGEP Departmental Surveys Jennifer Weisman, Senior Researcher, Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc. View presentation [PPT] Writing NSF Highlights and Nuggets Patricia B. Campbell, President, Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc. View presentation [PPT] |
| 2:00 pm — 3:30 pm | Small Group Discussion 1 Strengthening Evidence & Data in NSF Annual Reports, including Supplemental Questions Group Leaders: Suzanne Brainard, Executive Director, Center for Workforce Development, University of Washington, Seattle (Auditorium) Cheryl Leggon, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology (Abelson) Catherine Millett, Senior Research Scientist, ETS, Policy Evaluation & Research Center (Haskins) Carlos Rodriquez, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research (Room 207) Wendy Stock, Co-Department Head & Professor of Economics, Montana State University (Cabot Lab) View presentation [PPT] Cynthia Winston, Assistant Professor, Psychology, Howard University (6th Floor Conference Room) Kimberley E. Freeman, Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of Educational Psychology, Howard University (6th Floor Conference Room) |
| 3:30 pm — 4:00 pm |
Poster Setup (Revelle Room) |
| 4:00 pm — 6:30 pm | Posters and Reception
Visits and Critique by Group Leaders |
| 6:30 pm | Adjourn and Dinner on Your Own
Bus Pick Up at AAAS |
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Friday, September 19, 2008 Location of Morning General Sessions, AAAS Auditorium, 2nd Floor |
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| 7:15 am | Bus pick up at the hotel |
| 8:00 am — 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 am — 9:15 am |
Comments on Posters from the Evaluators |
| 9:15 am – 9:45 am | Ask the Evaluator? Comparison Groups and Other Concerns Catherine Millett, ETS & Other Group Leaders View presentation [PPT] |
| 9:45 am – 10:00 am | Break |
| 10:00 am–12:15 pm | CGS PhD Completion Project Robert Sowell, Project Director and Vice President, Programs & Operations, Council of Graduate Schools View presentation [PPT] UCLA CGS PhD Completion Project Angela James, Assistant Dean, Academic Initiatives, Graduate Division, UCLA View presentation [PPT] View chart, Differential Impact of Financial Suport on URMS [JPG] UMBC CGS PhD Completion Project University of Michigan CGS PhD Completion Project |
| 12:15 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch (Abelson/Haskins Room/2nd Floor Conference Room) |
| 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Policy Issues, Evaluation and Broadening Participation Shirley M. Malcom, Director, AAAS EHR Bernice T. Anderson, NSF, EHR, Senior Advisor |
| 2:00 pm — 3:00 pm |
Small Group Session 2 Group Leaders |
| 3:00 pm |
Free afternoon for Alliance Meetings and Touring DC |
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Saturday, September 20, 2008 Location of this session is the Abelson / Haskins Room, 2nd Floor |
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| 7:15 am | Bus pick up at the hotel |
| 8:00 am — 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 am – 9:15 am | Responses from group leaders about the nuggets Group Leaders |
| 9:15 am - 10:15 am |
Evaluating and Improving your Website Outreach |
| 10:15 am – 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:30 am – Noon | Small group reports and response from evaluator team Group Leaders |
| Noon — 1:30 pm | Lunch & Closing Remarks Yolanda S. George, AAAS View presentation [PPT] Lenell Allen, NSF View presentation [PPT] Metro or cabs to hotel or airport |
