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Submitted Projects for July 2014

Best wishes to Donald Pemberton on his proposal to the Florida Office of Early Learning; Philip Poekert for his proposal to the School Board of Duval County; Ivan Mutis and Pasha Antonenko for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Feihong Wang for her proposal to the Foundation for Child Development; Carole Beal, Donald Pemberton, and Juan Gilbert for their IES proposal to the US Department of Education; Mary Brownell for her IES subcontracts to the Vail School District and Boston University; Maureen Conroy for her IES proposal to the US Department of Education and her IES subcontract to Virginia Commonwealth University; Ann Daunic, Nancy Corbett, and Stephen Smith for their IES proposal to the US Department of Education; Alice Kaye Emery for her proposal to the Florida Department of Education; Holly Lane and Nicholas Gage for their IES subcontract to the University of Washington; James McLeskey for his IES subcontract to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation; Donald Pemberton and Susan Butler for their proposal to the University of Florida Foundation; Stephen Smith and Ann Daunic for their IES subcontract to SRI International; Sondra Smith and Walter Leite for their proposal to the Department of Health and Human Services/OPRE; and Patricia Snyder, Mary McLean, and James Algina for their IES proposal to the US Department of Education.

For more details about these proposals, see the table online. Read More…

Support for Principal Investigators

Everyone in the OER is fully engaged in PI support services! We are currently drafting boilerplate materials for data management/security, cost analysis, and dissemination plans for all outgoing IES proposals. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements. In the meantime, we want to make the following resources available to everyone preparing proposals. Read More…

Awarded Projects for June 2014

Congratulations to Donald Pemberton for his award from the Early Learning Coalition of Duval County; Philip Poekert for his award from the Early Learning Coalition of Broward County, Inc; and to Marisa Stukey and Ashley Pennypacker-Hill for their award from the Florida Department of Education.

For more details about these awards, see the table online. Read More…

Submitted Projects for June 2014

Best wishes to Lynda Hayes for her proposals to the Florida Department of Education; Marisa Stukey and Ashley Pennypacker-Hill for their proposal to the Florida Department of Education; Mary McLean, Patricia Snyder, and Maureen Conroy for their subcontract to the University of Washington; David Therriault for his subcontract to Omninox Publishing; Thomas Dana and Daniel McCoy for their proposal to Sabreliner Aviation; and Donald Pemberton for his proposal to the US Department of Education/FIPSE and for his proposal to the Early Learning Coalition of Duval County.

For more details about these proposals, see the table online. Read More…

Summer Proposal Submissions

Faculty in the COE are submitting 20 proposals this summer, including 13 IES proposals — a record number — with the same August 7 deadline. To accommodate IES submissions, the OER requested that PIs schedule an appointment time with Brian to ensure all proposals are finalized and uploaded successfully before the deadline. We want to thank everyone for communicating with Brian to confirm a date. Read More for Additional Important Details…

Recent Legislative Action Affects IES

In April, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce reported on the Strengthening Education through Research Act (H.R. 4366). The bill, passed by the House of Representatives in May, amends several provisions related to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) including independence, research standards, technical assistance, evaluation, privacy protection, oversight of student assessment, and IES accountability. Read More…

Submitted Projects for May 2014

Best wishes to Magdalena Castaneda for her proposal to Miami-Dade County Public Schools; Sondra Smith and Jacqueline Swank for their proposal to the US Department of Justice; and Jacqueline Swank and Joseph Gagnon for their proposal to the US Department of Justice.

For more details about these proposals, see the table online. Read More…

Awarded Projects for April 2014

Congratulations to Philip Poekert for his subcontract from SRI International and for his award from The School Board of Miami-Dade County; Bruce MacFadden and Kent Crippen for their award from the National Science Foundation; Marisa Stukey for her award from the Developmental Studies Center; and Danling Fu and Cynthia Chennault for their award from the National Security Agency. Read More…

Submitted Projects for April 2014

Best wishes to Philip Poekert for his proposal to the Early Learning Coalition of Broward County, Inc.; Lynda Hayes for her proposal to Plum Creek Foundation; Marisa Stukey and Ashley Pennypacker-Hill for their proposal to the Florida Department of Education; Christy Gabbard and Mickey MacDonald for their proposal to the Learning Forward Foundation; Michael Bowie and Theresa Vernetson for their proposal to the Florida Department of Education; Diana Joyce and Nancy Waldron for their proposal to the US Department of Education/OSEP; Sylvia Boynton for her proposal to the Educational Testing Service; and Maria Coady for her proposal to the US Department of State. Read More…

CEECS Postdoctoral Fellows Compete in Research Symposium

The UF Office of Postdoctoral Affairs will hold its second annual Posdoctoral Research Symposium on Monday, April 21, 2014 at Emerson Alumni Hall from 8am – 3pm. The theme for this year’s symposium is Communicating Your Research. Postdocs in both oral and poster presentations will be judged on how well they can convey their research to an educated lay audience.

Postdoctoral Fellows in the COE Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies (CEECS) have completed the following research. Read More…

NCER and IES Hold Annual Summer Research Training Institute: Cluster-Randomized Trials

The National Center for Education Research (NCER) within the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has announced its eighth Summer Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials. The training institute will be held July 7 – 17, 2014 at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. All applications must be received no later than, Monday, April 21, 2014 at 8:00 pm ET. Applications will be reviewed and applicants will be notified of placement by Wednesday, May 7, via e-mail.

This training institute is conducted to increase the capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations of the impact of education interventions. Read More…