About the ATE Survey

EvaluATE collaborates with ATE and STEM education researchers to include questions in the final section of the ATE survey to conduct research on issues related to technician education, or to further understand a specific theme in ATE. This section is referred to as “Special Topic Questions” and changes from year to year.

Prior special topics have included:

• Understanding the Economic Development Role of Technician Education by Rutgers’s Hidden Innovation Infrastructure targeted research project (2023)
• Assessment of professional development activities for educators by the Formative Assessment Systems FAS4ATE (2022)
• Future trends, priorities, and challenges of ATE by the Future of Work project (2019)
• Accessibility concerns in ATE by AccessATE (2018)
• ATE collaboration with business and industry by Working Partners (2016–17)
• Industry-college collaborations in instructional program planning by Louise Yarnall (2013)

The following publications have been informed by data collected from the ATE Survey

 
Boyce, A. S., Tovey, T. L. S., Onwuka, O., Moller, J. R., Clark, T., & Smith, A. (2023). Exploring NSF-funded evaluators’ and principal investigators’ definitions and measurement of diversity, equity, and inclusion. American Journal of Evaluation, 44(1), 50–73.
Slowinsky, M., & Bower, R. (2021). Partnership Models developed by the Working Partners Project.
Garza Mitchell, R., & Horvitz, B. (2017). Online technical education in the community college. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 41(6).
Wingate, L. A. (2017). Advancing research in the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 41(6), 370-373.
Bouda, K., & Bower, R. (2015, July 15). Creation, dissemination, and accessibility of ATE-funded resources. [blog].
Yarnall, L. (2013). Meeting 2020 workforce goals: The role of industry–college collaboration and goals for instructional design. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 38(2-3), 250-260.
Welch, W. (2014). An exploratory test of a model for enhancing the sustainability of NSF’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program.
Welch, W. (2013a). Developing and analyzing a scale to measure the impact of the Advanced Technological Education Program.
Welch, W. (2013b). Measuring the sustainability of the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education Program.
Smith, C., & Wingate, L. A. (2016). Strategies for broadening participation in advanced technological education programs: Practice and perceptions. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 40(9), 779-796.
Bartlett, K. R., Schleif, N., & Bowen, M. M. (2011). The use of workforce assessment as a component of career and technical education program evaluation. Career and Technical Education Research, 36(2), 105-118.