IES Provides Resources to Support Cost Analysis Requirement

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is committed to having its funded researchers conduct appropriate economic analysis as part of their studies. To achieve this goal, IES has developed the Cost Analysis Starter Kit, providing a three-phased approach to the basics of cost analysis. IES is hopeful that the starter kit will help counter two common myths about cost analysis. The first is that cost analysis is complex and time consuming and the second is that cost analysis is a separate, distinct process from program evaluation.

IES is providing two additional supports. A cost analysis help desk is now available to assist IES applicants. Researchers can request technical assistance with planning or conducting their cost analysis from the Cost Analysis in Practice (CAP) Project Help Desk. Another resource designed to facilitate the estimation of costs and cost-effectiveness of educational programs is CostOut® – the CBCSE Cost Tool Kit.

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OER Holds Second Seminar Series 2020 Workshop

The UF Office of Educational Research (OER) will hold its second OER Seminar Series 2020 workshop. Please join the OER team via Zoom for an OER seminar on National Science Foundation (NSF) funding opportunities. NSF-funded COE faculty will join the OER team to share insights and provide important information. Please check your e-mail for an invitation with the Zoom link.

Date: Monday, July 13, 2020
Time: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

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Strategies for Securing Early Career Research Funding

Please join presenters Melodi Moore, University of Texas Galveston; Cristal P. Sanchez, Texas Tech; and Linda Galloway, Elsevier for a webinar to share services, solutions, and strategies in supporting early-career researchers’ discovery of funding opportunities—how to find them and how to maximize proposal success.

Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Time: 12:00 pm ET

Click here to register.

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UF Supports Artificial Intelligence Workshops

UF is offering workshop support to encourage education related to data-enabled science and engineering and foster interdisciplinary growth among UF’s research community. UF has earmarked up to $25,000 annually, allowing for six to eight awards per year. The deadline to apply for a Spring 2021 Workshop is August 1, 2020.

The Workshop Support program enables departments to host one to two day workshops in any area of data-enabled science and engineering and artificial intelligence (AI). Typical workshop activities include technical presentations, training seminars, or grant application planning. This program is not limited by discipline, and interdisciplinary workshops are highly encouraged.

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Migrating HiPerGator Data to Blue Storage

UFIT recently installed a new “blue” file storage system for all HiPerGator users. To transition files from the /ufrc file system to /blue, rolling migrations will be scheduled between June and August 2020.

HiPerGator users do not need to move their own data to prepare for using the blue storage. Users should instead remove any unneeded data prior to the scheduled transfer from /ufrc. UFIT will schedule transitions outside of normal business hours to avoid impacting research needs.

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Awarded Projects for June 2020

Congratulations to Crystal Bishop and Patricia Snyder for their award from the U.S. Department of Education/IES; Julie Brown, Mark Pacheco, and Ellen Davis for their award from the National Science Foundation; Christy Gabbard for her award from the Florida Department of Education; Ashley Pennypacker Hill for her award from the Florida Department of Education; Ashley MacSuga-Gage for her subcontract award Florida Department of Education Flow Through from the University of South Florida; Philip Poekert for his award from Orange County Public Schools; Darbianne Shannon for her award from the San Diego County Office of Education; and Ross Van Boven for his award from the Florida Department of Education.

For more details, see the Awarded Projects table.

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Submitted Projects for June 2020

Best wishes to Hannah Bayne and Jeffrey Pufahl for their proposal to the Spencer Foundation; Christopher Busey for his proposal to the William T. Grant Foundation; Maria Coady and Nidza Marichal for their proposal to the Spencer Foundation; Hitomi Greenslet, Kent Crippen, Nam Kim, Jorg Peters, and Dapeng Wu for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Lynda Hayes for her proposal to the Florida Department of Education; Lynda Hayes and Karen Kilgore for their proposal to the Spencer Foundation; Latoya Haynes-Thoby, Ana Puig, Jacqueline Swank, and Sondra Smith for their proposal to the Spencer Foundation; Herman Knopf and Elizabeth Shenkman for their subcontract proposal ACF Flow Through from the Florida Office of Early Learning; Walte Leite and Wanli Xing for their proposal to the Spencer Foundation; Michelina MacDonald for her proposal to the National Education Association Foundation; Ashley MacSuga-Gage for her subcontract proposal Spencer Foundation Flow Through from the University of Helsinki; Justin Ortagus for his subcontract proposal Gates Foundation Flow Through from Pennsylvania State University; Jennifer Park-Jadotte for her subcontract proposal ACF Flow Through from the National Association for Family School & Community Engagement; Philip Poekert for his proposal to Lauren’s Kids; Philip Poekert for his proposal to the School Board of Seminole County; Paige Pullen for her proposal to the Detroit Public Schools Community District; Matthew Schmidt and Carla Schmidt for their proposal to the Spencer Foundation; Patricia Snyder, Herman Knopf, and Maureen Conroy for their subcontract proposal ACF Flow Through from the Florida Office of Early Learning; and Joni Splett for her subcontract proposal NIJ Flow Through from University of South Carolina.

For more details, see the Submitted Projects table.

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Next Steps in UF Research Resumption Plan: Progressing to Stage 2

Research activities of over 3,000 UF faculty, staff, post-docs, and graduate students were successfully reviewed and approved through the Research Activity Approval Portal. Beginning June 1, 2020, UF is progressing to Stage 2 of the UF Research Resumption Plan. For many, the most significant change will be an increase in the allowed density of people per laboratory.  For human subject research, the allowed resumption of diagnostic, screening, and interventional studies will expand activities as UF moves to Stage 2.

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UF IRB Offers Guidelines for Research Resumption

As UF Research moves to Stage 2 of research resumption, the UF Institutional Review Board (IRB) has provided guidelines for IRB requirements related to research resumption. For more information, please visit the UF Research Resumption Plan and UF IRB COVID-19 Response websites.

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Reminder for UF Faculty: Protocol Compliance

As you all know, the research conditions at UF are not exactly normal as we resume research on campus. It is particularly critical during this time that researchers comply with their approved protocols and not assume that restrictions due to the pandemic automatically grant any kind of flexibility when complying with approved protocols. If pandemic-related restrictions (or any other factors) impact protocol compliance, faculty should contact applicable oversight offices (e.g., IRB, IACUC, OCR, etc.) to ask if they need to submit a modification request before deviating from their protocol.

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From the IES Director: New Directions for Next Year’s Funding Opportunities

Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Director Mark Schneider has published a blog post on new directions for next year’s funding opportunities. IES just released FY 2021 RFAs for its largest grant programs. A guiding principle has been to simplify RFAs to allow researchers more freedom to pursue new ideas and approaches leading to improved education outcomes within budget constraints. As RFAs are simplified, IES continues to emphasize the need for cost analysis and more dissemination activities. Given these heightened demands, most RFAs have higher funding limits than in the past.

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From the IES Director—IES Centers: A Reassessment

At the end of March, the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) sent a joint letter to Congress focused on shortfalls in the budget and staffing levels for the National Center of Education Statistics (NCES). In that letter, ASA and AERA also dismissed the proposal that a new center focused on education assessments be created within IES, moving NAEP and the international assessments (such as TIMSS, PISA, and PIAAC) out of NCES into this center. In a recent blog, Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Director Mark Schneider explains why he supports this move.

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IES Announces Help Desk for Cost Analysis

A cost analysis Help Desk is now available to help Institute of Education Sciences (IES) applicants and grantees prepare and implement their cost analysis plans. Researchers can request technical assistance with planning or conducting their cost analysis from the Cost Analysis in Practice (CAP) Project Help Desk at https://capproject.org/.

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IES Reduces the Burden to Grantees While Increasing the Public’s Access to IES-Funded Research

In 2011, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) adopted the IES Public Access Policy. This policy requires all IES grantees and contractors to submit their final peer-reviewed manuscripts through the ERIC Grantee and Online Submission System portal. ERIC then makes the work freely available to the public 12 months after publication. As part of an effort to minimize burden for IES grantees and contractors, ERIC has negotiated agreements with the publishers of over 600 education journals to display publicly funded articles in ERIC 12 months after publication or sooner. See ERIC’s list of participating journals. If grantees or contractors publish their work in a participating journal, the journal will submit the full text to ERIC on their behalf. Grantees and contractors will not need to submit their work to ERIC. This policy takes effect for work published after January 1, 2020. If an article was accepted by a journal that was participating in this program, but then the journal moved to a publisher that is not participating, then the grantee or contractor will have to submit the article to ERIC.

To ensure that their work is included, grantees and contractors are responsible for the following:

  • Including their grant or contract number(s) in the acknowledgements section of the published article.
  • Confirming that the journal title, publisher, and year matches ERIC’s list of participating journals.
  • Informing their publishers that they are subject to IES policies when their manuscript is submitted.

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Reminder: NIH Has Transitioned to FORMS-F

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has transitioned to the updated application FORMS-F. Use FORMS-F for grant application due dates on or after May 25, 2020.

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