Student Participation And Completion of Marketable Credentials Report

This 147-page report, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, discusses the results of a study on "student participation and completion data for the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program." The study includes the count of students served by ATE projects and "identifies factors that would need to be considered to improve reporting of student-level data broadly across the ATE program." Also covered in the report are topics such as the impact of internships and apprenticeships on the ATE program, barriers to information reporting for ATE grantees, and key recommendations around data collection for the ATE program. The following sections are included in the report:

• Research Question 1: Student Participation - Years 2018 and 2019
• Research Question 2: Student Participation in Activities by Unique Counts - 2019
• Research Question 3: Change in Applied Learning - Years 1994 - 2020
• Research Question 4: Student Completion - Years 2018 and 2019
• Research Question 5: Marketable Credentials - 2019
• Research Question 6: Barriers to Data Collection
• Conclusion
• Recommendations