IES Fellows Entry Survey_2022_revised 12.22

IES Fellows Entry Survey

Welcome to IES! Thank you for taking this survey. Your responses are extremely important to us as we seek to ensure that the IES Education Research training programs attract a diverse group of fellows and provide training experiences that are individualized based on fellows’ interests and professional goals. The results of the survey will be used to both improve the training programs as well as to provide information on the fellows to policymakers, practitioners, and the public.

Please note that responses are voluntary and all information is kept confidential except as required by law.

Information collected from this survey is subject to the confidentiality and data protection requirements of the Institute of Education Sciences (The Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002, Title I, Part E, Section 183). Information that could identify an individual or institution will be separated from the survey responses submitted, kept in secured locations, and destroyed as soon as they are no longer required. Survey responses will be used only for research purposes. The reports prepared from the survey will summarize findings across individuals and institutions and will not associate responses with a specific district, school, or person.

I. Respondent Background

1. Name (Optional) [open field: 200 characters]

2. Alternative email address (Optional) [open field: 200 characters]

[Predocs only, questions 3-9]

3. Home department (e.g., psychology, education, sociology) [open field: 200 characters]

4. Program/concentration (e.g., cognitive psychology, education policy, curriculum & instruction) [open field: 200 characters]

5. Date of entry into doctoral program (month/year) [open field: 200 characters]

6. Dissertation advisor/Primary mentor (if identified) [open field: 200 characters]

7. Date of entry into IES Predoctoral Education Research Training Program (month/year): [open field: 200 characters]

8. Number of years that you were promised support by your training program: [open field: 200 characters]

9. If you received another fellowship, who was it from (e.g., your department, university, private foundation)? [open field: 200 characters]

[Postdocs only, questions 1-6]

1. Primary mentor in IES postdoctoral training program [open field: 200 characters]

2. At which university did you complete your doctoral work? [open field: 200 characters]

3. What department did you receive your PhD/EdD training in? [open field: 200 characters]

4. Who was your graduate school dissertation advisor? [open field: 200 characters]

5. Degree completed  Other. Please specify:

6. Year degree completed [open field: 200 characters]

II. IES Fellowship Program

1. How did you find out about this fellowship?

From the fellowship program (website, program materials, trainers, etc.)

From a current/former fellow

From a university source (other than the fellowship program or fellows)

From IES

Other

2. Please provide more information about how you initially found out about this program (the specific website, office, person, etc. that mentioned the program). [open field: 500 words]

3. What drew you to apply to and accept the IES fellowship? [open field: 500 words]

4. What specific training activities do you hope to engage in? [open field: 500 words]

5. What are your employment goals? [open field: 500 words]

6. What questions do you have about IES, your fellowship, or resources IES might have available for fellows? [open field: 500 words]

7. Please share any additional information about yourself that you would like IES to know in order to better assist you. [open field: 500 words]

8. If would you like IES staff to follow up with you about either question (6) or (7), please provide your email address below: [open field: 200 characters]

III.  Respondent Demographics 

 

Please note that all of these data are used strictly for statistical purposes and will not be used otherwise. All demographic questions are optional. 

 

1. Gender:   

• Man

• Woman

• Nonbinary or another gender

• Prefer not to disclose

 

2. Are you a veteran?

• Yes

• No

• Prefer not to disclose

2. Do you have a disability?

• Yes

• No
  [If “no”, skip to III.6]

2. Do you require accommodations for your disability?

• Yes

• No
  [If “no”, skip to III.6]

2. Did you request accommodations from your training program?

• Yes

• No

2. Citizenship status:

• U.S. Citizen

• U.S. Permanent Resident

• Neither 

2. Are you of Hispanic or Latino origin? (“A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture origin regardless of race.”)

• Yes

• No

• Prefer not to disclose

2. What is your race? (Select all that apply) 

• American Indian or Alaska Native (“A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America) and who maintains tribal affiliations or community attachment”)   

• Asian (“A person having origins in any of the original peoples from the Fear East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam”) 

• Black or African American (“A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.”)   

• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (“A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands”)

• White (“A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa”)

• Prefer not to disclose

 

 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE IES FELLOWS ENTRY SURVEY!