Wednesday, June 26, 2013

AERA Dissertation and Research Grants

The AERA Grants Program is accepting proposals for Dissertation and 
Research Grants,with a deadline of Thursday, September 5, 2013. Now in 
its 23rd year, the AERA Grants Program, with support from the National 
Science Foundation, provides small grants for conducting studies of 
education policy and practice using federally-funded, large-scale data
sets. Please help us in disseminating information widely to colleagues 
who may be interested.
 
AERA Grants Program
AERA Dissertation Grants
<http://www.aeramail.org/l.jsp?d=965.18230.78.98e61h8GAOBOwnWhmMlpKYA..A>:
AERA provides dissertation support for advanced doctoral students to undertake
doctoral dissertations using data from the large-scale national or 
international data sets supported by the NCES, NSF, and/or other 
federal agencies. Applications are encouraged from a variety of 
disciplines, such as but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, 
psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics. The
selection process is competitive. AERA Dissertation Grants are awarded 
for one-year for an amount of up to $20,000. The next application 
deadline is Thursday, September 5, 2013.

AERA Research Grants
<http://www.aeramail.org/l.jsp?d=965.18229.78.98e61h8GAOBOwnWhmMlpKYA..A>:
AERA provides small grants for faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, 
and other doctoral-level scholars to undertake quantitative research 
using data from the large-scale national or international data sets 
supported by the NCES, NSF, and/or
other federal agencies. Applications are encouraged from a variety of 
disciplines, such as but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, 
psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics. 
The selection process is competitive. AERA Research Grants are awarded for 
one or two years, for an amount of up to $35,000. The next application 
deadline is Thursday, September 5, 2013.

For further information about AERA and the Grants Program, visit the AERA Grants
Program website at
http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/
 <http://www.aeramail.org/l.jsp?d=965.18228.78.98e61h8GAOBOwnWhmMlpKYA..A>.
You may also contact Kevin Dieterle, AERA Grants Program Manager, at
grantsprogram@aera.net<http://www.aeramail.org/l.jsp?d=965.18227.78.98e61h8GAOBOwnWhmMlpKYA..A>
or (202) 238-3227.

Monday, June 17, 2013

EPE news

Please join me in congratulating Amberly Warnke for receiving the College of Education's 2013  award for Outstanding Staff Member.  Well deserved!

If you haven't yet heard, we are fortunate to have two new faculty members joining EPE for the fall semester:

Dr. Erin Stevenson has been accepted a clinical faculty appointment in EPE.  She will be the Director of the College's new Evaluation Center and will teach courses and advise in EPE.  Dr. Stevenson is interested in finding graduate students with interest and emerging skills in evaluation methods to get involved in projects through the Center.  She'll be located in 143-144 Taylor.

Dr. Ishwanzya Rivers has accepted appointment for a one year Lecturer position in EPE.  She'll teach  Policy Issues in Higher Education in the fall, and likely a Community College course as well as another yet to be decided course in the spring.  Dr. Rivers will also be available to work with Masters degree students on their scholarly papers and to guide students who'll undertake internships next year.  Dr. Rivers will have an office in 145 Taylor.

Please join me in welcoming both Dr. Stevenson and Dr. Rivers.

Amberly has started work to update the EPE website.  If you have suggestions, please let her or me know.

I will continue as interim department chair next year.  Need an IRB signature?  I'll be in the office on and off during the summer.  So leave the form in my mailbox and drop me an email to let me know it's there: Signatures R Me.

Other news?  Please share.  I'm sure in my jet-lagged state, I've left some on the other side of the international dateline.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

KUDOS to Michael Peabody



I am pleased to announce that Michael Peabody (doctoral student in EPE) has accepted the position of Psychometrician with the American Board of Family Medicine. The American Board of Family Medicine is one of the 24 medical specialty boards and certifies family physicians. Michael will be involved with scoring the certification examination, standard setting, reliability and validity studies, drafting manuscripts, and writing syntax to improve and automate ongoing psychometric processes. Please join me on congratulating him on this new professional endeavor.  

Associate Professor
Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation
University of Kentucky
131 Taylor Education Building
Lexington, KY 40506