Undergraduate and Graduate Students Report on Career Values
CERP presents results on what aspects of a career undergraduate students and graduate students consider most important.
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Articles relevant to the CRA Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP).
Freshman Experienced the Highest Decline in Frequency of Interactions with Classmates Outside of Class During COVID Pandemic
Data from the CRA Data Buddies Survey (DBS) 2019, 2020, and 2021, indicates that students interacted with their classmates outside of the lectures less frequently after the COVID pandemic and the change was more drastic for students who were earlier on in their academic program.
Doctoral Students Are More Satisfied with Their Advisor Relationships than Terminal Master’s Students Are
CRA’s Data Buddies Survey 2021 data indicate that students in doctoral programs are more likely than their peers in terminal master’s programs to report being satisfied with their advisor relationships across a set of advisory domains.
Snapshot Results from the CRA-WP Career Mentoring Workshops
Career Mentoring Workshops are designed to support individuals in early and mid-career stages. Evaluation results indicate that after the workshop, as compared to before the workshop, participants were more likely to report they knew people to whom they could go to for guidance on how to advance their career.
How do Current Students Pay for Their Degree Programs?
As prospective students consider postsecondary degree programs, a common question that emerges is how to pay for that program. What are the more common funding sources that students ultimately use? CERP investigated how students at different degree types pay for their program, as reported in late 2021.
Rates of Participation in K-12 Outreach Vary Among Undergraduates in Computing
CRA’s Data Buddies Survey 2021 data indicate that 16% of undergraduates in computing fields have been involved in K-12 outreach during their degree program. Participation rates across different racial and ethnic groups varied. Within racial/ethnic groups, participation rates also varied as a function of gender identity.
DEAPening Employer Academic Partnerships
DEAP seeks to develop the academic-industry partnership needed to prepare graduates for long-term success in industry careers.
The Decision to Go to Graduate School After Undergraduate Degree Completion
Analysis suggests that job prospects weigh heavily on students’ decision to skip or delay graduate education. Further, while the importance of some of the reasons remain the same across students at different stages of their degree program, others vary in terms of their salience depending on how close students are to graduating.
Responses of Academic Units in Public and Private Institutions to Increasing Enrollments in Computing
Using data from the new Policies and Data Practices Survey, this analysis looks at the actions higher education institutions took to address increasing enrollments. Academic units in private institutions were significantly less likely to tighten their admission/enrollment requirements and to advise less successful students to consider other majors compared to those in public institutions.
Thank you, Data Buddies! (Fall 2021)
The annual Data Buddies Survey ended in February of 2022. CERP wishes to thank the 145 institutions and departments that made data collection possible, with special appreciation extended to Elite Data Buddies who received at least a 20% response rate from survey respondents.
Who do Men and Women Graduate Students Consider to be Their Mentors? An Analysis Revisited.
Where do graduate students find mentors? CERP revisited a prior analysis with updated data from the 2020 Data Buddies Survey and discovered the most common sources for mentors. Additionally, CERP uncovered some significant differences between where men and women graduate students find mentors.
