Questionnaire Invitation Email

Attachment 5b:

Questionnaire Invitation Email for Principal Investigators

Subject: Share your experience as a PI or co-PI – Noyce Program Evaluation

Dear [NAME],

We hope you are doing well. As Dr. Jennifer Ellis shared in her previous email, we are contacting you on behalf of WhitworthKee Consulting (WKC). The WKC Evaluation Team was contracted as a third party by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to evaluate components of the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (the Noyce Program). You are receiving this email because of your commitment to your Noyce project as a Principal Investigator (PI).

The Noyce Program provides funding to higher education institutions via (a) scholarships, (b) stipends, and (c) other means of programmatic support to recruit and prepare science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors and other professionals to become K-12 STEM teachers and teacher leaders. The Noyce Program evaluation's purpose is to (a) understand overall perceptions of the Program from both individuals who have applied for and/or received a Noyce award and those who have never applied and/or been awarded and (b) identify what is working well and growth opportunities.

If you agree to participate in the evaluation, you will first be asked to complete a questionnaire that asks about you, your educational and professional experiences, and your involvement with the Noyce Program (estimated time commitment: 20 minutes). Later in the evaluation, between Fall 2024 and Summer 2025, you may receive information about participating in an interview where you will be invited to provide your perspectives on STEM teacher preparation/leadership and the Noyce Program. We may also ask you to forward information about the evaluation to colleagues from your Noyce project so that we can learn from their perspectives as well.

If you choose to participate, we will do everything we can to keep your responses confidential, and we will not share individually identifiable information with anyone (including NSF staff or other Noyce project members) outside of the WKC Evaluation Team.

If you would like to participate in the evaluation, please use the following link to complete the demographic questionnaire at your earliest convenience: [LINK]

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected] or reply to this message. If you would like additional information about the evaluation, please visit the evaluation website at this link: https://whitworthkee.com/nsf-noyce-program-evaluation/. If you’d like to learn more about WhitworthKee Consulting, you can find more information at the WKC website: https://whitworthkee.com/.

We appreciate your consideration and look forward to hearing your perspectives.

Sincerely,

The WhitworthKee Consulting Evaluation Team