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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Research Event in October: Data Management Plan (DMP) Tool Training

Faculty and doctoral students are cordially invited to attend:

Data Management Plan (DMP) Tool Training

DMPTool Trainer Hannah Norton, UF Reference and Liaison Librarian

Tuesday, October 14, 2014
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Terrace Room

Bring your lunch. Refreshments and cookies will be served.

RSVP to Rosie Connolly by Friday, October 10: rconnolly@coe.ufl.edu

In this brown-bag workshop, you will learn how to use the DMPTool to generate a comprehensive DMP tailored to specific funding agency requirements. DMPs are now becoming a standard part of grant proposals for most funding agencies. The DMP should address the entire life cycle of the data. Some components of a DMP include data types, metadata, legal and ethical issues, data sharing, and data preservation.

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Save the Date: Research Event in November

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. 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. 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

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 September 2014

College of Education
Awarded Projects
September 2014
Principal Investigator: Michael Bowie (Recruitment, Retention & Multicultural Affairs)
Co-PI: Nancy Waldron (Dean’s Area)
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Project Title: College Reach Out Program (CROP)
Project Period: 8/1/2014 – 7/31/2015
Award Amount: $81,272.67
Principal Investigator: Mary Brownell (SESPECS)
Co-PI: Paul Sindelar (SESPECS), Erica McCray (SESPECS)
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Project Title: Project STEEP: Studying Teacher Effectiveness, Education, and Policy
Project Period: 9/1/2014 – 8/31/2019
Award Amount: $1,250,000
Principal Investigator: Magdalena Castaneda (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Miami-Dade County Public Schools – MDCPS
Project Title: Job-Embedded Professional Development through Professional Learning Communities (PLC)
Project Period: 7/1/2014 – 5/31/2015
Award Amount: $58,402
Principal Investigator: Thomas Dana (Dean’s Area)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Sabreliner Aviation
Project Title: Corrosion Sciences Education Distance Learning Curriculum Development
Project Period: 9/9/2014 – 2/28/2016
Award Amount: $699,918
Principal Investigator: Alice Kay Emery (SESPECS)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Project Title: Working with the Experts Project (Part B) 2014-2015
Project Period: 8/1/2014 – 7/31/2015
Award Amount: $175,000
Principal Investigator: M. David Miller (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Veteran’s Administration
Project Title: IPA for Christiana Akande (David Miller)
Project Period: 10/1/2014 – 9/30/2016
Award Amount: $35,422.92
Principal Investigator: Donald Pemberton (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Florida Office of Early Learning
Project Title: Early Learning Florida Training Initiative (Lastinger Center Online Early Learning Professional Development System)
Project Period: 9/17/2014 – 6/30/2015
Award Amount: $2,000,000
Principal Investigator: Sylvia Boynton (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Alachua County School Board
Project Title: Reaching All Readers: A K-5 Series of Reading Modules
Project Period: 9/15/2014 – 12/20/2014
Award Amount: $18,000

 

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Submitted Projects for September 2014

College of Education
Submitted Projects
September 2014
Principal Investigator: Donald Pemberton (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Florida Office of Early Learning
Proposal Title: Early Learning Florida Training Initiative (Lastinger Center Online Early Learning Professional Development System)
Requested Amount: $2,000,000
Principal Investigator: Lisa Clemons (P.K. Yonge)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Proposal Title: Postsecondary Education Readiness Test (PERT)
Requested Amount: $403.26
Principal Investigator: M. David Miller (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Veteran’s Administration
Proposal Title: IPA for Christiana Akande (David Miller)
Requested Amount: $35,422.92
Principal Investigator: Christy Gabbard (P.K. Yonge)
Co-PI: Julie Henderson (P.K. Yonge)
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Proposal Title: Professional Development for Digital Learning
Requested Amount: $75,000
Principal Investigator: Dennis Kramer (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: American Educational Research Association
Proposal Title: Loan Aversion and Matriculation: Impact of Loan Refusal on Postsecondary Completion
Requested Amount: $19,256
Principal Investigator: Carole Beal (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: University of Arizona (IES Subcontract)
Proposal Title: Animal Watch VI Suite: A comprehensive program to increase access to math for students with visual impairments
Requested Amount: $21,068
Principal Investigator: Nicholas Gage (SESPECS)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: University of Connecticut (Subcontract)
Proposal Title: Evaluation of Connecticut K-3 Literacy Initiative
Requested Amount: $24,999
Principal Investigator: Patricia Snyder (CEECS/SESPECS)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: University of Vermont (Subcontract)
Proposal Title: Practice Based Coaching
Requested Amount: $10,601.56
Principal Investigator: Daniela Oliveira (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Co-PI: Pavlo Antonenko (STL), Richard Newman (Computer and Information Science and Engineering)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: SaTC-EDU: Catalyst: A Model for Recruitment and Development of Pre-College Students into Cyber Security Professionals
Requested Amount: $96,936
Principal Investigator: Donald Pemberton (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Madison for Educational Consultancy, LLC
Proposal Title: Training Services Agreement
Requested Amount: $1,816,272.47

 

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Record Number of Proposals Submitted for a Single Deadline

COE faculty submitted a record number of proposals for this year’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Research and Research Training Grant Programs. For the August 7 deadline, 15 IES proposals were successfully submitted.

Thank you to everyone who worked diligently to meet the deadline, and best wishes to all!

For a complete list of the submitted proposals, please see Submitted Projects for July 2014 and Submitted Projects for August 2014.

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New OER Capital Needs Form

Based on faculty feedback from the last IES submission cycle, we have integrated the two early consultation forms into one form to streamline the process. You can find the new capital needs form on the OER website: https://education.ufl.edu/educational-research/research-support/requirements.

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Budgeting Graduate Research Assistants on Sponsored Projects

Principal Investigators who recruit graduate research assistants (GRAs) to attend the university specifically to work as a GRA on a grant(s) must commit to fund the GRA for the life of the grant(s) or until the GRA graduates.

For more information, please contact Ana Puig at anapuig@coe.ufl.edu.

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Click Commerce to Replace Cayuse

The UF Office of Research continues to invest energy into the University of Florida Integrated Research Support Tool, UFIRST, a program to develop new business models and tools that can improve sponsored programs effectiveness at UF. The UFIRST team has determined that Click Commerce Grants management software “Click” meets the majority of the specifications needed by UF.

The implementation plan calls for the new proposal development, routing, and management tool to be implemented in March 2015 at which time proposal routing will be entirely done in Click.  Extended training is scheduled to take place January–March 2015. Click will replace Cayuse for submission of grants electronically to grants.gov by October 2015. Additional phases of implementation for submission of grants and for setting up and viewing awards will be completed by March 2016. Watch for more announcements, updates, and invitations to help make the UF Click implementation a success.

A campus team has been formed to outline the details of the new system. They have designed a new proposal routing form and the budget building tool as well as outlined how streamlined routing and approval will function.  Details on each of these are and will continue to be posted under the Project Documents tab of the UFIRST website http://research.ufl.edu/faculty-and-staff/initiatives/ufirst/project-documents.html

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Save the Date: 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. An iPad will be raffled. Please bring a business card to enter the raffle. We look forward to seeing you there.

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