Academic Pathways Study: Information on Research Processes and Procedures

The Overview of APS Research Processes and Procedures (CAEE Technical Report #CAEE TR-09-03) provides a detailed picture of the design and implementation of the Academic Pathways Study.

The APS Overview is written in a year-by-year format, starting with study and instrument design activities in 2003 and ending with final data collection in 2008. Appendices containing interview protocols, survey instruments, and other guides to the research can be downloaded separately.

Download the complete manual, including all appendices

Overview of APS Research Processes and Procedures (complete document; pdf; 11,400kb).

For additional descriptions of the APS analysis methods and findings, refer to the papers and journal articles listed on the Publications page.

Download Chapters 1-8 and individual appendices separately

Chapters 1 through 8 (without appendices; pdf; 820kb).

Appendices


Process Guidelines and Forms

• 1-A. APS File Naming Protocol (pdf; 40kb)
• 1-B. APS Data Access Guidelines (pdf; 99kb)
• 1-C. APS Persistence Definitions (pdf; 25kb)
• 1-D. APS Informed Consent Forms (pdf; 168kb)
• 1-E. APS Longitudinal Cohort Demographics Table (pdf; 277kb)

Recruitment Plans and Materials

• 2-A. Original APS Longitudinal Cohort Sampling Plan (pdf; 59kb)
• 2-B. Sample APPLES Institution Overview and Recruitment Plan (pdf; 118kb)
• 2-C. Sample APPLES Poster (pdf; 452kb)
• 2-D. Sample APPLES Recruitment e-mail (pdf; 29kb)
• 2-E. APPLES Recruitment e-mail for Non-persisters (pdf; 29kb)

Interview and Engineering Task Protocols and Guides

• 3-A. APS Structured Interview Protocols (pdf; 110kb)
• 3-B. APS Engineering Task Protocols and ETD Data Sets (pdf; 128kb)
• 3-C. APS Interview Manual Example (pdf; 341kb)
• 3-D. APS Semi-structured Ethnographic Interview Guide Examples (pdf; 138kb)
• 3-E. Workplace Interview Guides: BCC (pdf; 89kb)
• 3-F. Workplace Interview Guides: Public Agency-Aerospace (pdf; 28kb)
• 3-G. APS Longitudinal Cohort Exit Interview Guides (pdf; 32kb)

Survey Instruments

• 4-A. Longitudinal Cohort (PIE) Survey Examples (pdf; 7,989kb)
• 4-B. Mapping PIE to APPLES (pdf; 111kb)
• 4-C. APPLES1 Survey Questions (pdf; 202kb)
• 4-D. APPLES2 Survey Questions (pdf; 285kb)
• 4-E. Cross-sectional Cohort Surveys and Focus Group Questions (pdf; 963kb)

Other

• 5-A. Sample APPLES Response Report (pdf; 39kb)
• 5-B. APS Research Team (pdf; 43kb)