Publications on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

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BOOKS

Baker, Joe. Minority Science Paths:  National Science Foundation Minority GraduateFellows of 1979-1981.  Washington, D.C.: OSEP, NRC, 1995. http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9243

Cerny, Joseph, and Nerad Maresi. The PhD: Passport to Multiple Destinations. Baltimore, MD: The JohnsHopkinsUniversity Press, 1987.

  

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Baker, Joe.  “Gender, Race, and Ph.D. Completion in Natural Science and Engineering.” Economics of Education Review 17 (1998): 178-88. (ERIC EJ568550)

Brown, Shirley V.  “Testing the Double Bind Hypothesis:  Faculty Recommendations of Minority Women Fellowship Applicants.”  Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 2 (1995): 207-23. (ERIC EJ576306)

Chapman, Gretchen B., and McCauley, Clark. “Early Career Achievements of National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Applicants: Looking for Pygmalion and Galatea effects on NSF winners.”  Journal of Applied Psychology 78(5) (1994): 815-20.

Chapman, Gretchen B. “Predictive Validity of Quality Ratings of National Science Foundation Graduate Fellows.”  Educational and Psychological Measurement 54(2) (1994): 428-38.

Clewell, Beatrice C. “A Comparative Study of the Impact of Differing Forms of Financial Aid on the Persistence of Minority and Majority Doctoral Students.”  Research News on Minority Graduate Education (MGE) 1(3) (1999). http://ehrweb.aaas.org/mge/Archives/3/comparative.html

McCauley, Clark. “Selection of National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow: A Case Study of Psychologists Failing to Apply What They Know About Decision Making.” American Psychologist, 46(12) (1991): 1287-91. (Psycnet Digital Object Identifier: 10.1037/0003-066X/46/12/1287)

Webster, David S., and Skinner, Tad. “Rating PhD Programs: What the NRC Reports Says…and Doesn’t Say.” Change (3) (1996): 22-44. (ERIC EJ524740)
 

MAGAZINE AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Kiparsky, Michael. “How to Win a Graduate Fellowship.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. May 2006. http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2006/05/2006051101c.htm

Mervis, Jeffrey. “Graduate Fellowships:  Fewer Minorities under New NSF Rules.” 16Apr. 1999: 411-12. (Science ISSN: 1095-9203 online)

REPORTS, INDEPENDENT RESEARCH, AND WHITE PAPERS

Attwood, Cynthia L. Women in Fellowship and Training Programs. Project on the Status and Education of Women. Washington: Association of American Colleges, 1972. (ERIC ED081371)

Baker, Joe. Career paths of the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellows of 1972-1981. 1994.

Blanpied, William A. The National Science Foundation class of 1952. 1999.

Bower, Robert T., and Wayner, Ivor.  The NSF Fellowship Program 1952-1954.  An evaluation based on 4,000 Questionnaires. 1956.

Bower, Robert T., and Wayner, Ivor.  The NSF Fellowship Program 1955-1956.  An  Evaluation Based on 2,300 Questionnaires. 1956.

Bower, Robert.T., and Wayne, Ivor.  The NSF Graduate Fellowship Program 1958-1959. An Evaluation based on 2,700 Questionnaires. 1959.

Burrelli, J. A comparison of the early career characteristics of NSF fellows and nonfellows. 2002.

Freeman, Richard B., Chang, Tanwin, and Chiang, Chaing, Hanley. Supporting 'The Best and Brightest' in Science and Engineering: NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. NBER Working Paper 11623. Sept 2005.  http://www3.brookings.edu/views/papers/200612freeman.pdf

Goldsmith, Sharon S., and Presley, Jennifer B. Fellowship Effects in GraduateEducation:  Evaluating the Impact of the National Science Foundation’s GraduateResearch Fellowship Program. Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Meeting Paper. Nov. 1999.  (ERIC ED437007). http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/15/ff/b5.pdf

Goldsmith, Sharon S., Presley, Jennifer B., and Cooley, Elizabeth A. National Science   Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Evaluation Report. 2000.

Goldsmith, Sharon S., Presley, Jennifer B., and Cooley, Elizabeth A. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Evaluation Report. 2002. www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02080/nsf02080.pdf

Harmon, Lindsey R. Fellowship Selection Research:  A Four-Year Progress Report.1957.

Harmon, Lindsey R. Fourteen Years of Research on Fellowship Selection; A Summary. 1966. (ERIC ED053662)

Harmon, Lindsey R. Career Achievements of NSF Graduate Fellows:  The Awardees of1952-1972. 1977. (ERIC ED152534) http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/35/ab/65.pdf

Hilton, Thomas L. Trends in the GRE Performance of Applicants to the NSF Graduate Fellowship Program and to Selected Graduate schools, 1974-1980. 1981.

Johnson, E.C. Descriptive Analysis of Program Participants and Academic Outcomes: The Minority Graduate Fellowship Program, FY 1978-1981. A Preliminary Report. 1987.

Johnson, J. Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.  Proceedings of the 334d SIGCSE Technical Symposium. 2002.

Kormondy, Edward J.  College Faculty-Oriented Programs of the National Science Foundation. 63(5) (1979): 721.  (ERIC EJ213171).

Melanson, Philip H., and Tenzer, Morton J. Education and Training for the Public Service in Connecticut. Dec. 1970. (ERIC ED053661).

Snyder, Joan. Early Career Achievements of National Science Foundation Graduate Fellows. 1967-1976. 1988.

Sween, J. An Evaluation of the Scientific Career Achievements Attributable to the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1952-1972.  Report to NSF (Contract SM17715053).

The Federal Interagency Committee on Education. Report of the Task force on Fellowships and Traineeships. 1968.

The Federal Interagency Committee on Education. A Study of Predoctoral Student Support. 1968.

The Federal Interagency Committee on Education. Report on Federal Predoctoral Student Support:  Part I – Fellowships and Traineeships. 1970.

The Federal Interagency Committee on Education.  Report on Federal Predoctoral Student Support:  Part II – Students Supported Under Training Grants of the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health. 1971. (ERIC 058850)

Wallmark, Madeline, M.  Graduate Record Examinations Manual of Information.  Part  II:  Trends in GRE. 1974.