Academic Pathways Study: Research Processes and Procedures,
CAEE Technical Report #CAEE-TR-09-03

The Overview of APS Research Processes and Procedures document provides a thorough picture of APS study design and implementation activities in a chronological format, from research design activities in 2003 through final data collection in 2008. The entire document, including appendices, is located here as a pdf file (13,663kb).

Downloads of individual files, including Chapters 1 through 8 and individual appendices, are available through the links below.

Chapters 1 through 8 - An Overview of the APS Research Processes and Procedures (without appendices; pdf 1,099kb).

Appendices

Process Guidelines and Forms

• 1-A. APS File Naming Protocol
• 1-B. APS Data Access Guidelines
• 1-C. APS Persistence Definitions
• 1-D. APS Informed Consent Forms
• 1-E. APS Longitudinal Cohort Demographics Table

Recruitment Plans and Materials

• 2-A. Original APS Longitudinal Cohort Sampling Plan
• 2-B. Sample APPLES Institution Overview and Recruitment Plan
• 2-C. Sample APPLES Poster
• 2-D. Sample APPLES Recruitment e-mail
• 2-E. APPLES Recruitment e-mail for Non-persisters

Interview and Engineering Task Protocols and Guides

• 3-A. APS Structured Interview Protocols
• 3-B. APS Engineering Task Protocols and ETD Data Sets
• 3-C. APS Interview Manual Example
• 3-D. APS Semi-structured Ethnographic Interview Guide Examples
• 3-E. Workplace Interview Guides: BCC
• 3-F. Workplace Interview Guides: Public Agency-Aerospace
• 3-G. APS Longitudinal Cohort Exit Interview Guides

Survey Instruments

• 4-A. Longitudinal Cohort (PIE) Survey Examples
• 4-B. Mapping PIE to APPLES
• 4-C. APPLES1 Survey Questions
• 4-D. APPLES2 Survey Questions
• 4-E. Cross-sectional Cohort Surveys and Focus Group Questions

Other

• 5-A. Sample APPLES Response Report
• 5-B. APS Research Team

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	This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ESI-0227558. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).