Update on CPST Programs and How to Use NSFs WebCASPAR Database System

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Update on CPST Programs and How to Use NSFs
WebCASPAR Database System

• Eleanor L. Babco
• AGEP Evaluation Capacity Workshop
• San Juan, Puerto Rico
• January 28, 2006

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CPST Current Programs/Activities

• Publications
• Professional Women Minorities,
  http//www.cpst.org/pwm15TOC.cfm
• Salaries of Scientists, Engineers Technicians,
  http//www.cpst.org/TOCSal21F.cfm
• CPST Comments, http//www.cpst.org/HRDATA/Pages/Co
  mResult.cfm?xDocSourceS
• Numerous online publications including
• Preparing Women and Minorities for the IT
  Workforce The Role of Nontraditional Educational
  Pathways 
• The Status of Native Americans in Science and
  Engineering 
• The Changing Nature of Work and Workers in
  Science and Engineering 

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CPST Current Programs/Activities

• STEM Workforce Project (Supported by Alfred P.
  Sloan Foundation)
• The Foreign Born in Science and Technology,
  http//www.cpst.org/STEM/STEM4_Report.pdf
• Sisyphus Revisited Participation by Minorities
  in STEM Occupations, 1994-2004 http//www.cpst.org
  /STEM/STEM3_Report.pdf
• Women in Science and Technology the Sisyphean
  Challenge of Change, http//www.cpst.org/STEM/ST
  EM2_Report.pdf
• Twenty Years of Scientific and Technical
  Employment http//www.cpst.org/STEM/STEM1_Report.
  pdf
• Data Archives for 4 reports total of 46 tables

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CPST Current Programs/Activities

• Professional Science Masters Project (Supported
  by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation)
• Website www.sciencemasters.org Contains
• Database of 603 science master's programs offered
  by 241 colleges/universities in 44 states plus
  Puerto Rico and DC. Searchable by discipline,
  state and university
• Database of over 180 data tables covering science
  masters education and the master's workforce in
  all fields of science, math and engineering.
  Tables searchable by category and keyword.
  Graphs display selected data.
• Articles and other information on the PSM

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CPST Current Programs/Activities

• Minorities and Non-Minorities in Academia A
  Science Engineering Career Path Comparison
  (Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) The
  research will study
• Whether the representation of minorities from
  traditionally underrepresented groups is lower,
  higher, or about the same as their representation
  in the relevant pools at various career junctures
  and
• Whether minority postdoctorates and minority
  faculty members are distributed similarly to
  majority groups across institutions/departments
  of varying types (i.e. research
  intensive/extensive, masters institutions, etc.)
  or whether they tend to be concentrated in
  specific types of institutions/ departments.

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CPST Current Programs/Activities

• Minorities and Non-Minorities in Academia A
  Science Engineering Career Path Comparison
  (continued). Primary Data Sources to be utilized
  include
• From NSF The Survey of Graduate Students
  Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering and
  Survey of Doctorate Recipients
• The Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA
  databases for The American College Teacher series
• The National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty,
  USOE
• 2003-2005 Sigma Xi Survey of Postdoctoral
  Researchers
• National Analysis of Diversity in Science
  Engineering Faculties at Research Universities
  (Donna Nelson)

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NSF/SRSs WebCASPAR Database, http//webcaspar.nsf
.gov

• Contains information about academic science and
  engineering resources.
• Contains information from several of SRS's
  academic surveys plus information from a other
  sources such as NCES.
• Designed to provide multi-year information about
  individual fields of SE at individual academic
  institutions

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NSF/SRSs WebCASPAR Database

• Users can select variables of interest and
  specify whether and how information should be
  aggregated.
• Information can be output in hard copy form or in
  Lotus, Excel or SAS formats for additional
  manipulation
• While data on SE is emphasized, data resources
  also provide information on non-SE fields and
  higher education in general.

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NSF/SRSs WebCASPAR Database

• How to Use?
• 1) Register and create a password.
• 2) Two tutorials are available a) Creating a
  table from one data source and b) Creating a
  table from multiple data sources.
• 3) Frequently requested tables are available as
  well as those that you have saved previously.
• 4) Build a table of your own

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NSF/SRSs WebCASPAR Database

• How to Build Your Own Table
• 1) Choose your data source(s)
• 2) More than one kind of data may be available
  from your chosen data source(s). If so, choose
  what kind of data you want.
• 3) Chose your classification variables. Year is
  always there, but user selects other variables.
• 4) Can choose as many variables as you want, but
  the more chosen, the longer it takes to build the
  table.

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NSF/SRSs WebCASPAR Database

• 5) After choosing all your analysis variables,
  edit them otherwise you will have too large a
  table.
• 6) Format your table
• 7) View your table
• 8) Choose your output SAS, Excel, etc.
• 9) If format not what you want, reformat the
  table if variables not what you want, modify
  analysis variables. DO NOT, DO NOT USE YOUR BACK
  KEY TO RETURN. YOU WILL LOSE ALL YOUR CHOICES.