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TRP Review. IPEDS Workshop. 2004 SHEEO/IPEDS Meeting Washington, DC March 30 – April 1, 2004. Results of Recent TRPs. TRP#7 – First-professionals. Held February 23-24, 2004 Charge: To examine how the first-professional category is used in IPEDS and whether it needs to be changed
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TRP Review IPEDS Workshop 2004 SHEEO/IPEDS Meeting Washington, DC March 30 – April 1, 2004
TRP#7 – First-professionals • Held February 23-24, 2004 • Charge: To examine how the first-professional category is used in IPEDS and whether it needs to be changed • Focus group session – Wed 9am Jeff Weber, NCES Senior Fellow
TRP#7 – First-professionals - continued • Possible suggestions: • Expand to include emerging fields such as physical therapy and audiology • Eliminate the category altogether and have degrees reported in other levels (M.D. = doctor’s degree) • Modify definition • Concern is loss of trend data
TRP#6 – Derived variables • Held February 4-5, 2004 • Charge: Review list of derived variables that will be added to DAS, peer tool • Focus group session - Wed 10am with John Milam
TRP#5 and #5.5 – Planning for 2004 and beyond • #5 – October 7-8, 2003 • #5.5 – December 8-9, 2003 • Followup to TRP#2, Community Colleges, and TRP#3, IPEDS Jeopardy • Charge: Review data collected by IPEDS and make suggestions for the future
TRP#5 and #5.5 – continued • Suggestions (3 types) • Clarifications to instructions / wording changes • Do now • Provided in handout • Changes to surveys • Minimal changes for 2004 • Some deleted questions or slight revisions • Included in handout
TRP#5 and #5.5 – continued • Future changes • Susan will talk about some long range plans for changes in a few minutes • All will be posted on the web for comment (draft provided) • Focus group session - Wed 11am with Susan and Cathy