Impact Indicator and Instruments for Individual Development Plans (I3IDP)

in STEM Graduate Education

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National Science Foundation

IGE Award

Innovations in Graduate Education
Grant ID: 1806607
This NSF-funded project aims to develop tools for the STEM community to evaluate Individual Development Plan activities on campuses or elsewhere.

Knowing The Difference (IDP vs. IDP Tool vs. IDP-Process)

IDP = Documentation and/or articulation of one’s engagement with the Individual Development Process (IDP-Process), including a strategy or action plan for accomplishing future goals.

IDP Tool = Tool that document of one’s engagement with the individual development process (IDP-Process), including a strategy or action plan for accomplishing future goals.

IDP- Process = A set of activities that one engages in to create an informed plan for their personal and professional development. The IDP-Process is iterative and involves the core components of self-assessment, contextual exploration, decision making, and goal setting. It is posited to be related to one’s identity formation.

IDP-Process Diagram

C.Y. Kuniyoshi, C.N. Fuhrmann, L.M. O'Dwyer, J.C. Schlatterer, 2023

Objectives

This project will work nationally across STEM disciplines to align activities associated with implementing and measuring the impact of the IDP-Process, fulfilling three project objectives:

1.Define ...

core goals and measurable outcomes for the IDP-Process.

2.Develop & Test ...

instruments that demonstrate changes in student actions and attitudes resulting from use of the IDP-Process.

3.Recommend ...

strategies for building a base of evidence on how and why the IDP-Process works in various contexts.

Impact Indicators

When students engage in the IDP-Process they will …
When students engage in the IDP-Process their faculty research advisors will …

Have a better understanding of professional development and career options available.

Be better equipped to provide feedback on student progress toward degree completion or academic advancement milestones.

Develop greater levels of self-efficacy, agency and control for their professional development and career planning.

Be better positioned to play a guiding/coaching role in students’ professional and career development regardless of career goal.

Develop an increased self-awareness (e.g., of

professional skills, strengths, interests, and values etc.)

Be better positioned to support the development of

mentoring relationships.

Achieve greater productivity/success/efficiency in research and academic progress.

Have students who complete their degree in a shorter period of time.

Institutions Using IDPs

University of Alberta

University of Iowa

University of Madison-Wisconsin

University of Minnesota

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