Earlier Research & Evaluation Work

? Analyst and project manager: Learning Chemistry by Doing What Chemists Do, evaluation of a national multi-institutional chemistry education reform initiative (ChemLinks and ModularChem Consortia). Funded by NSF, 1995-2001.

? Analyst: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Undergraduate and Graduate Student Summer Research Programs: Preliminary Evaluation. Some aspects of this program parallel undergraduate research programs. Analysis of qualitative data set. Funded by LANL, 2000.

? Member, evaluation team for the College Board: Evaluation of the College Board?s Equity 2000 Project in Two California (San Jose) Middle Schools. This project evaluated the difficulties of instituting math reform in racially and ethnically diverse, low-income urban school districts. Funded by The College Board, 1996.

? Evaluation consultant: Project Kaleidoscope, Independent Colleges Office. Responsible for the analysis and evaluation of text and numeric data records for Project Kaleidoscope to develop recommendations for an organizational evaluation design with all necessary instrumentation. Funded by NSF, US Dept. of Education, and W.M. Keck Foundation, 1995-1996.

? Analyst, project manager, and co-author of monograph: Factors Contributing to Success in Recruitment, Retention, and Employment of Engineering, Science, and Computer Science Undergraduates and Graduates with Disabilities at the Institute of Technology, the University of Minnesota. Research examining the nature and significance of difficulties encountered by students with disabilities, and factors and strategies that contribute to these students? persistence and retention in University of Minnesota?s IT program. Funded jointly by NSF and AAAS, 1994-1995.

? Analyst and project manager: Factors Contributing to High Attrition Rates in Mathematics, Science and Engineering Undergraduate Majors (published as Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences [Seymour & Hewitt, 1997]). A four-year national study investigating students? experiences in science, mathematics and engineering majors at seven institutions and addresses the problem of high attrition rates in these majors. Issues of gender and ethnicity in college science are one focus of this study. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1991-1994.