Work in Progress: Large-Scale Sampling and Recruitment of Engineering Doctoral Students

Board 18: Engineering Doctoral Students’ Motivations and Identities: Understandings and Implications

“…The remaining items were then further discussed amongst the research team for importance in addressing the research questions, and those of reduced importance were cut. The final survey was then compiled into a singular instrument and deployed to a national sample of engineering graduate students [21]. The sample consisted of 253 engineering doctoral degree granting programs that were selected to create a nationally representative sample.…”

Board 121: Exploring Hypotheses Regarding Engineering Graduate Students’ Identities, Motivations, and Experiences: The GRADs Project

“…Stratified random sampling was used to select a representative national population: strata were created based on location (state), program type (e.g., electrical, chemical, industrial, etc. ), and program size (small, medium, and large, determined based on number of Ph.D.'s previously awarded) [24]. Data from approximately 2300 EGSs was collected until spring 2018, and confirmatory factor and missingness analyses were conducted before beginning analyses detailed in the section below [19], [25], [26].…”