Using WebCASPAR to Access Data from the R

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Using WebCASPAR to Access Data from the RD
Expenditure Surveys (and other fun
things!)Summer Database InstituteJune 17, 2002
John MilamUniversity of Virginia
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Types of Reports/Data Use

• Institutional peer comparisons
• Creating datasets
• Program review
• Historical/trend data
• Complex analytical studies

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Data Sources

• Webcaspar
• SRS website - online pubs
• Academic Institutional Profileshttp//www.nsf.gov
  /sbe/srs/profiles/start.htm

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Datasets

• Graduate Student Survey - GSS
• Survey of Earned Doctorates - SED
• Federal funds survey
• Federal support survey
• Academic RD expenditures survey
• RD Facilities
• IPEDS (C, IC, EF, F, SA)
• NRC Program Rankings

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• Dump results to datasets
• Visual image in creating crosstabs
• Disciplinary crosswalks
• Multiple source datasets merged
• Personal reports
• Create groups
• Sample reports w/ national trends

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Possible Analytical Topics

• Affirmative action statistics
• Faculty supply and demand
• Pipeline studies
• Tuition fees trends
• Research by discipline
• Graduate enrollment by discipline
• Graduate student support
• Post-doctorates by discipline

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Analytical Topics - continued

• Research doctorate awards by discipline
• Time to degree studies
• Mechanisms of doctoral support
• Gordon Winston model - subsidies, other financial
  modeling w/ trends
• Competitor marketplace - degrees conferred
• Baccalaureate Origins (HEDS)
• Performance measures/ratios
• Trends in Research funding

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Complex Examples

• Declining SE Enrollment (GSS)
• SE Graduate Student Funding Trends (GSS)
• Trends in SE Doctorates (SED, C)
• Doctorate Origins (SED)
• Trends in Postdoctorates (GSS)
• Doctoral Recipients Interested in Academe (SED)
• Faculty availability for 8 factor analyses (SED,
  C)
• Instruction Exp. per FT Faculty (IPEDS F, SA)
• Percent of Faculty w/ Research Grants (NRC)
• Trends in Research Funding (Exp, Obligations,
  Support)
• Faculty Supply and Demand (GSS, SED, SDR)

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Example 1Declining SE enrollment
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Declining SE enrollment
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Declining SE Enrollment
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Example 2Graduate Student Support Funding
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Graduate Student Support Funding
Graduate students by discipline, source of
support
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Graduate Student Support Funding
Graduate students by institution, mechanism of
support
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Example 3Trends in SE Doctorates
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Trends in SE Doctorates
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Trends in SE Doctorates (from NRC data)
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Example 4Doctorate Origins by Baccalaureate
School
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Doctorate Origins by Baccalaureate School
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Example 5 - Trends in Postdoctorates
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Example 6Doctoral Recipients Interested in
Academe
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Doctoral Recipients Interested in Academe
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Example 7Faculty availability for 8 factor
analyses
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Faculty availability for 8 factor analyses
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Example 8Instruction Expenditures Per FT
Faculty
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Example 9Percent of Faculty w/ Research Grants
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Percent of Faculty w/ Research Grants
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Example 10Trends in Research funding

• RD expenditures by institution
• Federal funds/obligations (includes performer)
• Federal support (includes institution)
• Examine trends sources of data for a specific
  discipline computer sciences

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RD Expenditures for Computer Sciences
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RD Expenditures for Computer Sciences
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RD Expenditures for Computer Sciences
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Trends in Federal Funds - Computer Sciences
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Trends in Federal Support - Computer Sciences?
NO!
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Example 11Faculty Supply and Demand

• Graduate enrollment (GSS, CGS/GRE)
• Degrees conferred (SED, C)
• Plans (SED)
• Faculty population (SA, S, SDR, NSOPF)
• Faculty mobility - rank (SDR, NSOPF)
• Faculty research (NRC, Exp)
• Faculty retirements (SDR)
• New hires (S, SDR)
• Departures (SDR)

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Contact info

• John Milam, Ph.D.
• Research Associate Professor
• Education Leadership, Policy, Foundations
• Curry School of Education
• University of Virginia
• 405 Emmet Street South
• P.O. Box 400265
• Charlottesville, VA 22903
• [phone] (UVa)
• [phone] (home office)
• jmilam_at_virginia.edu