Resources
Division of Sponsored Programs
Listed below are links to important elements of grant writing and proposal submission provided on the UF Division of Sponsored Programs website:
- Proposal Development Resources
- Researcher’s Handbook
- Research Compliance (University and Federal Regulations)
- Faculty Funding Search
- Frequently Used Facts for Proposal Submission
- Fringe Benefit Rates
- Proposal Processing and Preaward Services
- Award Administration
- DSP Staff Directory
- Training and Education Opportunities
Grant Writing Educational Data
The Education Schools Project
Educating Researchers by Arthur Levine
National Science Foundation
Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences Directorate, Rebuilding the Mosaic
U.S. Department of Education
IES National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance
National Assessment of IDEA–Overview
U.S. Department of Education
IES National Center for Education Statistics Reports
- Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-8 Countries: 2011
- Condition of Education 2014
- Dropouts, Completers and Graduation Rate Reports
- National Assessment of Educational Progress, The Nation’s Report Card
- Projections of Education Statistics to 2021
- Secondary School Programs and Performance of Students With Disabilities: A Special Topic Report of Findings From the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2)
- State Education Reforms
U.S. Department of Education
Our Future, Our Teachers: The Obama Administration’s Plan for Teacher Education Reform and Improvement
Research Tools
- EZAnalyze — Data Tools for Educators
- Introduction to SPSS
- Lynda.com — Go to the UF Information Technology training page and click on the Lynda.com logo (requires a GatorLink username and password). Lynda.com provides excellent training videos on a variety of topics, including a 5-hour SPSS training.
- myinvestiGator — Requires a GatorLink username and password. The tool is also accessible through myUFL by navigating to Main Menu > myinvestiGator.
Transcription Services
- Transcription Express! or email fasttyping@aol.com
- Daily Transcription
- Transcription Services
- Datagain
- Teresa Abney–email inquiries to teresabney@yahoo.com
- Rev-Transcription, Captions, Translation
Oral Transcription Resources–the following are recommendations for Oral Transcription machines, web-based tools and software.
Dragon is by far the best, but it is trained to your voice, so for multiple interviews the quality will be reduced because you don’t have the benefit of training. Also, you’d need the business version which is pricey (~ $300- $500). Here’s a video about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuABO8nEX44
Voicebase does machine transcription, with timestamps that can be linked to key words and confidence estimates for accuracy. You upload an audio (or video) file to their server and download the transcript in Word, txt, rtf or srt format. Pricing is not clear from the website. (The company seems to be in transition.)
IBM has a free web-based tool that will accept WAV files and generate text (in a web box that you’d have to copy and paste into a document): https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net/
The Google Chrome browser has an API that will transcribe audio into text. You need an internet connection because the audio is sent to their speech engines for processing. It’s set up for dictation but you can play an audio recording through the microphone port on your computer. Here’s a video explaining how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDX-RVCmfWU
The newest Mac operating system (El Capitan) does the same thing although you don’t need an active internet connection because the speech recognition is done on your computer. It’s set up for dictation but you can play an audio recording through the microphone port on your computer. Here’s an article about how to do it: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-set-up-dictation-voice-commands-in-os-x-el-.html
Special Education Contacts - Southeast U.S. School Districts
