Qualtrics Training Series

The UF Center for Digital Health and Wellness is hosting a Qualtrics Training Series. The series consists of four 2.5 hour classes held in the Florida Gym, Room 250 on January 8, 15, 22, and 29. Please bring a laptop as these are highly interactive courses and participation is recommended. Seating is limited.

Click on the links below for more information or to register.

Getting Started: January 8, 2015 – 1:00pm – 3:30pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qualtrics-getting-started-tickets-14779809809

Moving On: January 15, 2015 – 1:00pm – 3:30pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qualtrics-moving-on-tickets-14779833881

Advanced: January 22, 2015 – 1:00pm – 3:30pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qualtrics-advanced-tickets-14779865977

Mobile & Offline: January 29, 2015 – 1:00pm – 3:00pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qualtrics-mobile-offline-tickets-14779884031

Qualtrics is a robust, sophisticated service for creating and delivering web-based surveys. With over 100 question types available and the ability to create interactive questions and engage survey-takers with rich media, it becomes possible to increase response rates. Users can also pull questions from professionally designed surveys as well as create their own library of questions, surveys, messages, and media.

Survey data can be analyzed as it is collected and researchers can pre-create reports with graphs, charts, and tables that populate in real time. Likewise, data can be exported into SPSS, Excel, or a variety of other formats for additional analysis. Furthermore, Qualtrics reports can be exported to PowerPoint, Word, or as a PDF file to use in presentations, reports, and research writing.

Please contact Rebeccah Mercado at rebeccahmercado@ufl.edu for further information.

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Save the Date: Research Event in March

Faculty and doctoral students are cordially invited to attend:

OER Professorship Symposium
with Stephen Smith, Fien Professor; Pat Snyder, Lawrence Professor; and Ester de Jong, B.O. Smith Professor

Monday, March 16, 2015
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Terrace Room

Bring your brown bag lunch. Refreshments and cookies will be served.

RSVP to Rosie Connolly by Friday, March 13: rconnolly@coe.ufl.edu

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Awarded Projects for December 2014

College of Education
Awarded Projects
December 2014
Principal Investigator: Lisa Clemons (P.K. Yonge)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Project Title: Postsecondary Education Readiness Assessments
Project Period: 10/10/2014 – 6/30/2015
Award Amount: $403.26
Principal Investigator: Christy Gabbard (P.K. Yonge)
Co-PI: Julie Henderson (P.K. Yonge)
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Project Title: Professional Development for Digital Learning
Project Period: 10/1/2014 – 6/30/2015
Award Amount: $75,000

 

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Submitted Projects for December 2014

College of Education
Submitted Projects
December 2014
Principal Investigator: Carole Beal (STL)
Co-PI: Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko (STL), Jose Principe (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: EXP: Collaborative Research: Exploring the Use of Data from the Brain for the Study of Learning
Requested Amount: $273,565
Principal Investigator: Maureen Conroy (AZCEECS/SESPECS)
Co-PI: Patricia Snyder (AZCEECS/SESPECS), Brian Reichow (AZCEECS/SESPECS), Mary McLean (AZCEECS/SESPECS)
Funding Agency: US Department of Education/OSEP
Proposal Title: Preparing Leaders in Early Childhood Studies and Implementation Science – Project PLECS-IS
Requested Amount: $995,218
Principal Investigator: Lynda Hayes (P.K. Yonge)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Proposal Title: Performance Adjustments to School Districts
Requested Amount: $51,292
Principal Investigator: Holly Lane (SESPECS)
Co-PI: Nicholas Gage (SESPECS)
Funding Agency: US Department of Education/OSEP
Proposal Title: Project TIER: Teaching, Intervention, and Efficacy Research
Requested Amount: $1,250,000
Principal Investigator: Ivan Mutis (Rinker School of Construction Management)
Co-PI: Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko (STL)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: EXP: Cyber-Drone: Empowering Learning through Real Time Visualization Environment using Unmanned Aerial Systems
Requested Amount: $26,822
Principal Investigator: Stephen Smith (SESPECS)
Co-PI: Nancy Corbett (SESPECS)
Funding Agency: US Department of Education/OSEP
Proposal Title: Preparing Personnel to Serve School-Aged Children with Persistent and Severe Behavior Problems (EBD Prep)
Requested Amount: $989,420
Principal Investigator: Stephen Smith (SESPECS)
Co-PI: Ann Daunic (SESPECS)
Funding Agency: Clemson University (Subcontract – NSF Flow Through)
Proposal Title: Simulated Affective Social Role Playing for Peer Mediation and Conflict Resolution Education
Requested Amount: $94,380
Principal Investigator: Patricia Snyder (AZCEECS/SESPECS)
Co-PI: Mary McLean (AZCEECS/SESPECS)
Funding Agency: Johns Hopkins University (Subcontract – Maryland State Department of Education Flow Through)
Proposal Title: Expansion of Learning Progressions from Birth to 36 months for the Early Learning Assessment
Requested Amount: $114,983.38
Principal Investigator: David Therriault (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Omninox Corp (Subcontract – NSF Flow Through)
Proposal Title: A.L.I.C.E. (Adaptive Learning through Innovative Coursework and Experimentation)
Requested Amount: $33,554

 

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Qualtrics and SPSS Research Training Series

The UF Center for Digital Health and Wellness is hosting a Qualtrics and SPSS Training Series to be held in January and February, respectively. Please contact Rebeccah Mercado at rebeccahmercado@ufl.edu by December 8 with your date and time preferences. If you contact her after December 8, she will do her best to accommodate your schedule. Seating is limited.

Each series will consist of four 2.5 hour classes taught by Dr. Jose Lugo-Silva in the Florida Gym, Room 250. Please bring a laptop as these are highly interactive courses and participation is recommended.

Qualtrics is a robust, sophisticated service for creating and delivering web-based surveys. With over 100 question types available and the ability to create interactive questions and engage survey-takers with rich media, it becomes possible to increase response rates. Users can also pull questions from professionally designed surveys as well as create their own library of questions, surveys, messages, and media.

Quantitative survey data can be analyzed as it is collected and researchers can pre-create reports with graphs, charts, and tables that populate in real time. Likewise, data can be exported into SPSS, Excel, or a variety of other formats for additional analysis. Furthermore, Qualtrics reports can be exported to PowerPoint, Word, or as a PDF file to use in presentations, reports, and research writing.

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USDOE Proposes New Regulations to Strengthen Teacher Preparation

The US Department of Education has announced proposed regulations to help ensure teacher training programs are effectively preparing educators.

Among the new regulations are changes to the eligibility requirements for TEACH Grants. The USDOE currently allocates about $100 million each year in TEACH Grants awarded to aspiring teachers who agree to teach at high-need schools after graduation.

Under the new rules, states would be required to evaluate teacher preparation programs to determine several factors, including how well graduates perform as measured by student learning outcomes. Based on these results, the USDOE would award TEACH Grants only to graduates attending programs deemed effective. Furthermore, states would be required to provide technical assistance to any programs rated as low-performing.

For more information on the proposed regulations, please see the USDOE website Improving Teacher Preparation and the press release U.S. Department of Education Proposes Plan to Strengthen Teacher Preparation.

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Happy Holidays from Your OER Team!

Happy Holidays

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Awarded Projects for November 2014

College of Education
Awarded Projects
November 2014
Principal Investigator: Diana Joyce Beaulieu (SESPECS)
Co-PI: Lynda Hayes (P.K. Yonge)
Funding Agency: Neuronet Learning, LLC
Project Title: Neuronet Learning: Interactive Learning for 4-5 Year Olds & Kindergarten Students
Project Period: 11/1/2014 – 6/30/2015
Award Amount: $2,000
Principal Investigator: Maureen Conroy (CEECS/SESPECS)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Virginia Commonwealth University (Subcontract–IES flow through)
Project Title: Development and Validation of Treatment Integrity Measures of Classroom-Based Instructional Interventions in Early Childhood Settings
Project Period: 9/1/2014 – 8/31/2018
Award Amount: $179,506

 

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Submitted Projects for November 2014

College of Education
Submitted Projects
November 2014
Principal Investigator: Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko (STL)
Co-PI: Bruce MacFadden (Florida Museum of Natural History), Aaron Wood (Florida Museum of Natural History), Corey Toler-Franklin (Computer & Information Science & Engineering)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: STRATEGIES: iDigFossils: Engaging K-12 Students in Integrated STEM via 3D Digitization, Printing and Exploration of Fossils
Requested Amount: $1,194,054
Principal Investigator: Thomas Dana (Dean’s Area)
Co-PI: Daniel McCoy (Dean’s Area)
Funding Agency: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Proposal Title: Adaptive Learning Networks in Secondary & Post-secondary Virtual Educational Environments
Requested Amount: $142,656
Principal Investigator: Mary McLean (CEECS/SESPECS)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: US Department of Education/OSEP
Proposal Title: Preparation and Retention of Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education Personnel: Preparing for Evidence-Based Practice in High Need Early Childhood Settings (Project Prepare)
Requested Amount: $1,232,603

 

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NSB Releases New and Updated Resource on STEM Education, Workforce

Users can explore trends spanning pre-K through careers.

The National Science Board (NSB) has released an interactive, online STEM Education Resource featuring new and updated data and graphics about STEM education and workforce in the United States and providing facts on topics such as student proficiency, college degrees in STEM fields, and jobs in science-related occupations.

The online resource features 60 central questions, organized by education level and the workforce, with multiple data points, graphs, and maps providing the answers to each question. Users can view the latest data, consider trends, easily download both data and graphics, and share these data through email and social media. Links to additional analysis are provided for each topic.

The data is drawn from the NSB’s Science and Engineering Indicators report.

The NSB is the policymaking body for the National Science Foundation. The NSB also advises the President and Congress on science and engineering policy issues.

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Research Event in November: Advances in Single-Subject Design Research Summit

Advances in Single-Subject Design Research Summit

Faculty and doctoral students in the College of Education and across the university are invited to attend the first Advances in Single-Subject Design Research Summit at the University of Florida.

The event will be held on Monday, November 17 from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm in the Terrace Room in the College of Education. The event can accommodate 35 people, so please RSVP Rosie Connolly by Wednesday, November 12: rconnolly@coe.ufl.edu

This event will be a hands-on workshop focused on advancing attendees proficiency and skill applying effect sizes to single-subject design research. Drs. Tim Lewis, Kimberly Vannest, and Nicholas Gage, who bring a wealth of practical and technical experience in single-subject design research, will lead the summit.

Description of Activities

Single-subject design research has a long and storied history in diverse research fields, with its founding in the field of applied behavior analysis and extension and proliferation in special education. With the evolution of the evidence-based practice movement, single-subject design research has had to (a) defend its place as a valid and reliable approach in the development and advancement of knowledge, and (b) advance the science of the design. Over the past 10 years, significant developments have been made with regards to the analysis and interpretation of single-subject design research. This summit will focus on the advancement of effect sizes in single-subject design research, specifically (a) the role of effect sizes in the methodology, and (b) applications of parametric and non-parametric effect sizes. This summit will be a hands-on opportunity to advance skills and learn new approaches in single-subject research.

Guest Speakers

Dr. Tim Lewis – Dr. Lewis is Professor and Chair of Special Education at the University of Missouri, Co-Director of the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Center for Positive Behavior Support (pbis.org), Co-Director for the Institute of Education Science (IES)-funded Center for Adolescent Research in Schools (ies-cars.org), and Director of the Missouri Center for School-wide Positive Behavior Supports (pbismissouri.org). Dr. Lewis has extensive experience supporting the needs of students with emotional and behavioral disorders and is a leading expert in single-subject research design.

Dr. Kimberly Vannest – Dr. Vannest is Professor of Special Education at the Texas A&M University. She is widely published in the advancement of single-subject design effect sizes and has helped develop a number of non-parametric and non-overlap procedures, including Percentage of All Non-Overlapping Data (PAND) and Tau-U. Dr. Vannest’s work focuses on the identification of reliable measurement of treatment effects and effect size indices in single-subject design research to improve prevention and treatment practices supporting the needs of students with emotional and behavioral disorders.

Dr. Nicholas A. Gage – Dr. Gage is an Assistant Professor of Special Education in the School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies in the College of Education at the University of Florida. Dr. Gage’s work has focused on advancing statistical and methodological rigor in the field of emotional and behavioral disorders. Part of that work has included a novel use of hierarchical linear modeling to conduct meta-analyses of single-subject design research.

Summit Details

Date: November 17, 2014

Schedule of Activities:

8:00 – 9:00 am – Registration and Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15 am – Welcome and Overview: Dr. Nicholas A. Gage

9:15 – 10:30 am – Single-subject Design: Critical Features and Challenges by Dr. Tim Lewis

10:30 – 10:45 am – Break

10:45 – Noon – Advances in Parametric Effect-Sizes: Hierarchical Linear Modeling and Generalized Least Squares by Dr. Nicholas A. Gage

Noon – 12:30 pm – Lunch

12:30 – 1:45 pm – Advances in Non-parametric Effect Sizes: Tau-U and More by Dr. Kimberly Vannest

1:45 – 2:00 pm – Closing and Final Thoughts by Drs. Lewis, Vannest, and Gage

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Awarded Projects for October 2014

College of Education
Awarded Projects
October 2014
Principal Investigator: Lynda Hayes (P.K. Yonge)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Project Title: IDEA Part B, Entitlement 2014-2015
Project Period: 7/1/2014 – 6/30/2015
Award Amount: $219,628
Principal Investigator: Marisa Stukey (P.K. Yonge)
Co-PI: Ashley Pennypacker-Hill (P.K. Yonge)
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Project Title: Title I Part A
Project Period: 7/1/2014 – 6/30/2015
Award Amount: $151,553
Principal Investigator: Donald Pemberton (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Madison for Educational Consultancy, LLC
Project Title: Training Services Agreement
Project Period: 9/1/2014 – 8/31/2015
Award Amount: $1,816,272

 

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Submitted Projects for October 2014

College of Education
Submitted Projects
October 2014
Principal Investigator: Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko (STL)
Co-PI: Carole Beal (STL)
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Proposal Title: Beyond Self-Report: EEG Measures of Impasse in Authentic Problem Solving
Requested Amount: $143,265
Principal Investigator: David Julian (Biology)
Co-PI: Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko (STL)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: IUSE: Development of a Simulation-Based Application for Teaching Human Physiology through Guided Discovery, Pure Discovery, and Authentic Research
Requested Amount: $37,250
Principal Investigator: Ivan Mutis (Rinker School of Construction)
Co-PI: Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko (STL)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: EXP: Cyber-ART: Augmented Reality Technology to Enhance Learning in Construction Engineering and Management
Requested Amount: $40,109
Principal Investigator: Kent Crippen (STL)
Co-PI: Julie Boker (Center for Precollegiate Education and Training); Bruce MacFadden (Florida Museum of Natural History); Cheryl McLaughlin (Florida Museum of Natural History)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: 4D PALEO: 3D Participatory Learning with Big Data about Life Evidence over Time
Requested Amount: $449,934
Principal Investigator: Danling Fu (STL)
Co-PI: Jing Zhang Paul (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
Funding Agency: National Security Agency
Proposal Title: Florida STARTALK 2015 Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers of Chinese Language
Requested Amount: $81,465
Principal Investigator: Timothy Jacobbe (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Loyola Marymount University (Subcontract)
Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Project-SET: Increasing Teacher Preparation and Student Learning in Statistics
Requested Amount: $307,775
Principal Investigator: Diana Joyce Beaulieu (SESPECS)
Co-PI: Lynda Hayes (P.K. Yonge)
Funding Agency: NeuroNet Learning, LLC
Proposal Title: NeuroNet Learning: Interactive Learning for 4-5 Year Olds and Kindergarten Students
Requested Amount: $2,000

 

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Research Computing Faculty Brochure 2014

UF Research Computing has released its Research Computing Faculty Brochure 2014 highlighting the infrastructure, facilities, and staff resources available to support externally funded research at UF.

UF Research Computing provides the means to compete for research funding and to collaborate with peers nationally and internationally in support of high-impact research. UF Research Computing is currently supporting $339 million in externally funded projects.

Research Computing is one of seven core units within Information Technology. Its mission is to support research-oriented computing activity as needed by UF faculty and drive UF toward its stated goal of becoming a top-10 public research university.

Please contact the Research Computing staff with questions about planning your project. Additional proposal support can be found on the website at http://www.rc.ufl.edu/research/proposal-support/.

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OER and Coordinated Services Post Award Open House

You are invited to attend the OER and Coordinated Services Post Award Open House, Wednesday, October 15 from 2 pm – 4 pm in Norman Hall rooms 124 and 125. We will have a drawing for two iPads: one for faculty and one for staff. Please bring a business card for your entry. Refreshments and cookies will be served. We look forward to seeing you there!

Both offices (125 and 124) will be open; walk between the two offices and meet all of the folks who work here.  We will pick the winner of each iPad around 4 pm. You do not have to be present to win.

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