Panel - emerging results: Were the engineering education coalitions an effective intervention?

At the time the decision was made to discontinue funding to the NSF engineering education coalitions, data in support of the impact of the coalitions were unavailable. Since then, whether an institution was a member of a coalition has been an important variable in many engineering education studies. In this panel session and paper, we present the results of three such studies and invite the audience to assess the strength of the evidence. Guided audience discussion will focus on whether the results can be used to evaluate the coalitions intervention, related research directions, and implications for future funding.