2024 Newsletters
Winter 2024
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March 19, 2024
ATLAS Fellowship 2024/25 - Call for Proposals
Accessible Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Systems (ATLAS) at the University of Kansas seeks proposals from doctoral students to conduct research and evaluation projects in support of our technology-based learning and assessment systems.
Doctoral students from accredited institutions in the United States and Canada are eligible to apply. Applicants can submit a proposal for either a one- or two-semester project. Recipients will receive financial support and access to the data needed to complete projects. Initial 500-word abstracts (optional) are due by April 1, 2024. Applications and full proposals are due by May 17, 2024.
Visit the ATLAS Research Fellowship page for additional information.
Meta-Analysis Training Institute Call for Applications
The Meta-Analysis Training Institute (MATI) is accepting applications for its upcoming session on advanced methods for conducting large-scale meta-analyses (July 21 – July 27, 2024). MATI is a one-week intensive workshop aimed at researchers interested in conducting research consistent with IES Exploration grants and SEER principles for rigorous education research. The goal is to train researchers in state-of-the-art methods to conduct large-scale research syntheses and meta-analyses. These methods are less commonly taught in courses and workshops. Please visit the following link for application requirements and information about funding: https://www.meta-analysis-training-institute.com/application-info. Applications are due by March 31, 2024.
Contact email: mati@gsu.edu
Online Short Courses at CILVR at The University of Maryland
The Center for Integrated Latent Variable Research (CILVR) at The University of Maryland is pleased to announce the following popular online short courses. Participants may join us from anywhere in the world with a good Wi-Fi connection -- synchronously (real-time) or asynchronously (delayed/recorded).
April 24-26, 2024 Introduction to Finite Mixture Modeling Dr. Jeffrey Harring, University of Maryland Full-time student: $295 Professional: $525 https://umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/courses/introduction-to-mixture-modeling
May 16-17, 2024 Introduction to Machine Learning for the Social Sciences Dr. Tracy Sweet, University of Maryland Full-time student: $195 Professional: $375 https://umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/courses/introduction-to-machine-learning-for-the-social-sciences-2024
June 3-5, 2024 Bayesian Statistical Modeling: A First Course Dr. Roy Levy, Arizona State University Full-time student: $295 Professional: $525 https://umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/courses/bayesian-statistical-modeling-a-first-course-2024
June 6-7, 2024 Bayesian Statistical Modeling: A Second Course Dr. Roy Levy, Arizona State University Full-time student: $195 Professional: $375 https://umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/courses/bayesian-statistical-modeling-a-second-course-2024
June 3-7, 2024 Bayesian Statistical Modeling: First and Second Courses Dr. Roy Levy, Arizona State University Full-time student: $455 Professional: $825 https://umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/programs/bayesian-2024
Please direct any questions to Ashani Jayasekera at cilvr-shortcourses@umd.edu.
Senior Research Scientist, Research Consulting Partnership, NWEA
The NWEA Learning Sciences Division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt seeks a Senior Research Scientist as part of its Research Consulting Partnerships team. Beyond our research, our goal is to build and nurture a team of talented researchers and empower them to do their best work. In support of this goal, we seek researchers of diverse backgrounds and identities, academic training, work experience, and ideological outlooks to join our team. Our researchers also regularly write for general audiences, present to federal, state, and local policymakers and educators, and inform conversations in national and local media.
NWEA® is a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt that supports students and educators through research, assessment solutions, policy and advocacy services, professional learning and school improvement services that fight for equity, drive classroom impact and push for systemic change in our educational communities. For nearly 50 years, NWEA has developed innovative pre-K–12 assessments, including their flagship interim assessment, MAP® Growth™ and their reading fluency and comprehension assessment, MAP® Reading Fluency™.
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on March 24, 2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date but is not guaranteed.
Questions may be directed to Scott J. Peters.
UGA QUAL Lab Speaker Series Event
Join the UGA Qualitative Research Program for the UGA QUAL Lab Speaker Series: Culturally disruptive research: Troubling the culture of science in qualitative methodologies presented by Dr. Lorien Jordan on Wednesday, April 3rd from 12PM - 1PM Eastern Time. In this talk, Lorien confronts cultural responsivity as a method that can lure researchers into justifying their work by focusing on essentialized, static, and damage-centered notions of culture. Merging insights from critical theories of whiteness and colonialism, she draws on her experiences working in New Zealand, Cambodia, and the United States to illustrate how a culturally disruptive framework might open possibilities for upsetting the cultural foundations of Westernized knowledge production and the reproduction of whiteness. Lorien invites researchers to follow cultural disruption into spaces of dynamic dissonance, where epistemologies and ontologies meet at metaphysical, methodological, and physical borderlands to foreground creative, critical, and capacious knowledge generation.
More information at https://bit.ly/UGAQL07
Contact: maureen.flint@uga.edu
March 5, 2024
2024 Lloyd Bond Assessment Research Internship
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is seeking a qualified graduate student for a remote, part-time, summer internship opportunity to gain experience in assessment research. For more information, see https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3826895211/.
Contact: Carol Ezzelle, PhD, cezzelle@nbpts.org
Postdoctoral Scholar, Research and Evaluation Methodology Program, University of Florida
The Research and Evaluation Methodology Program at the University of Florida invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar. The Postdoctoral Scholar will work with Dr. Wei Li on an NSF-funded five-year project about longitudinal study design and analysis. The ideal candidate is expected to have one or more of the following: (1) knowledge of statistical methods for longitudinal data analysis, such as multilevel modeling, difference in differences (DID), or comparative interrupted time series (CITS) design, (2) experience conducting Monte Carlo simulations using R or Stata, and/or (3) experience cleaning, managing, and analyzing large-scale longitudinal data using Stata, R, or SAS. The anticipated start date is August 1, 2024, but there is some flexibility. Applications will be reviewed starting on March 25, 2024.
Candidates can apply via https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/530453/postdoctoral-scholar-research-and-evaluation-methodology.
Please send email inquiries or nominations to the Search Committee Chair, Dr. Wei Li, at wei.li@coe.ufl.edu.
Inaugural Conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement
Announcing that the International 2024 Inaugural Conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement Biennial Conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement will be held in person at the University of California, Berkeley, on August 5–6, 2024.
The Conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement is an interdisciplinary conference that explores the philosophy and history of measurement. It aims to consolidate and develop the study of these topics, following previous conferences that predate the foundation of the Society in Bielefeld (2013), Cambridge (2015), Paris (2018) and Milan (2022). It will bring together philosophers, historians, sociologists, psychometricians, and metrologists to address questions related to measurement across disciplines ranging from the natural sciences to the human sciences.
Submissions are invited for:
Please submit proposals for individual contributions (~500 words) or symposia/workshops (~1,200 words), specifying the chosen format (a)-(d), and following the instructions of the website. All abstracts should be submitted electronically using the website submission page.
Questions may be submitted via the contact form on the conference site or by contacting Qing Cai at qingcai@berkeley.edu.
Spencer Transformative Research Program Information Session at AERA
Colleagues from Division D are invited to attend an Information Session during AERA 2024 in Philadelphia about the Spencer Foundation's new Transformative Research Program.
This session will be held in person, starting with a formal presentation about Spencer’s Transformative Research Program, followed by a general Q&A with Program Officers. We are especially interested in meeting new members and sharing more about this opportunity, given the program’s interest in transformative scholarship that measures and assesses the full range of skills, capacities, and experiences that lead to robust learning.
Details Saturday, April 13, 2024 2:00 – 3:00 pm Philadelphia Marriott Downtown 1201 Market Street, Franklin Hall 2, Level 4
Seating is limited, so interested scholars should RSVP by March 15: https://spencer.smartsimple.us/ex/ex_Evtpage.jsp?token=HQQPSBMGZVhaQxZeXxJSSldWYA%3D%3D&parentids=2540861.
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