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Dawn A. Rowe; Valerie L. Mazzotti; Darcy Frederick; Sara Beth Hitt; Amy K. Oswalt; Madelyn Bates; Makensie Cotter; Jeff Gau; Keith Smolkowski – Grantee Submission, 2024
Secondary special education and transition research is crucial for improving outcomes for students with disabilities during their transition to postschool life. However, rural schools are underrepresented in this field, hindering the development of tailored interventions that can support youth with disabilities as they transition into adult life…
Descriptors: Innovation, Secondary School Students, Special Education, Transitional Programs
Courtney Tanenbaum; Susan Cole; Raquel Gonzalez; Montrischa Essoka – Grantee Submission, 2020
American Institutes for Research (AIR) conducted a three-year exploratory case study of four two-year graduate-level bridge programs designed to increase the number of historically underrepresented groups of individuals earning PhDs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This article presents findings from one component of a…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Graduate Study, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students
Wei, Xin; Wagner, Mary; Hudson, Laura; Yu, Jennifer W.; Shattuck, Paul – Grantee Submission, 2015
Relatively little is known about the pathways youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) take in the transition to adulthood in terms of employment and postsecondary education. Applying life course sequence analysis to a nationally representative sample of youth with ASDs (n = 120), this study clustered various longitudinal sequences into three…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Longitudinal Studies, Postsecondary Education
Wei, Xin; Yu, Jennifer W.; Shattuck, Paul; McCracken, Mary; Blackorby, Jose – Grantee Submission, 2013
Little research has examined the popular belief that individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more likely than the general population to gravitate toward science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This study analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2, a nationally representative sample of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Students, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Wei, Xin; Christiano, Elizabeth R.; Yu, Jennifer W.; Blackorby, Jose; Shattuck, Paul; Newman, Lynn A. – Grantee Submission, 2014
Little research has examined the popular belief that individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more likely than the general population to gravitate toward science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This study analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2, a nationally representative sample of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Students, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders