ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This study is one in a series of substudies for the Math and Science Partnership Program Evaluation (MSP-PE) conducted for the National Science Foundation's MSP. The MSP-PE is conducted under Contract No. EHR-0456995. Since 2007, Bernice Anderson, Ed.D., Senior Advisor for Evaluation, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, has served as the National Science Foundation Program Officer. The authors are Robert K. Yin, of COSMOS Corporation, Edward J. Hackett, of Arizona State University, and Daryl E. Chubin, of American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The MSP-PE is led by COSMOS Corporation in current partnership with George Mason University (GMU) and Brown University. Robert K. Yin (COSMOS) serves as Principal Investigator and Jennifer Scherer (COSMOS) serves as one of three Co-Principal Investigators. Additional Co-Principal Investigators and their collaborating institutions (including discipline departments and math centers) are Patricia Moyer-Packenham (USU, formerly GMU) and Kenneth Wong (Brown).