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Research and Grants

The College of Education works with the University's Research and Sponsored Programs, Grants Accounting, and Research Ethics and Compliance Offices to encourage and support research and grant submissions by its faculty, staff, and students. The current Illinois State University research mission, vision, and goals are outlined in the Strategic Plan for Research, Scholarship and Creative Expression.

COE URG Information and Publication Support

For complete URG information including guidelines and application information for Fellowship, External Grant Development, First-Year Faculty, and Small Grants, as well as our URG Workshop PowerPoint, approved URG examples, and URG timelines, please see the College's University Research Grants page.

Research and Sponsored Programs will match funds to support a faculty member’s publication cost for up to $600 over a three year period. They will match funds from faculty, Department, or College. For more information, please see RSP’s Publication/Exhibition/Open Access Grant page. 

Process and Procedures for Grant Submission Notification

  • In order to best support the external grant writing that takes place in the College of Education, procedures for grant submission notification have been created. The purpose of these procedures is to streamline the internal process of grant submission and support, and ensure that deadlines for external grants are met.
  • If your grant includes the purchase of technology, please be sure to read the Technology Purchase and Refresh Procedures, and follow them accordingly.

Course Redesign

Watch for CTLT's course redesign opportunity, "Going Global with Your Course." This opportunity provides a chance to design or revamp your course to make it more globally engaged, in keeping with the latest version of the University Strategic Plan.

The National Center for Urban Education (NCUE) is again offering the opportunity to better prepare our students to teach in urban school settings. Stipends are being offered for this course redesign process that will take place summer 2019. Applications are due by 4:00PM March 19, 2019. Please email April Mustian (NCUE faculty development liaison) at amustia@ilstu.edu if you have any questions.

Lab School Research

The mission statement of the Illinois State University Laboratory Schools includes four pillars, one of which is focused on research. Laboratory School faculty and staff are working on this pillar, and they invite Illinois State University colleagues in their classroom research endeavors. Please visit the website to learn more.

Conducting Research in Unit 5

In order to conduct research in the Unit 5 School District, please complete the Request for Research Form and send to Associate Dean Barb Meyer. She will review and notify the applicant when it is sent to the Unit 5 office for review and of potential approval.

By the second week of each semester, the researcher should complete the COE Research Outcomes Report to show progress on the research. This form also notifies Unit 5 when publications or presentations are completed from the research in their school district. These reports should be sent to Associate Dean Barb Meyer.

COE Research News

  • In a collaborative effort with May Jadallah (TCH), Alycia Hund, Jonathan Thayn, and Joel Studebaker, Promoting Students' Spatial Thinking in Upper Elementary Grades using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) was presented in the NSF 2015 Teaching and Learning Video Showcase. View their video, and join the conversation about the latest research to improve STEM and computer science teaching and learning. The video summarizes their NSF grant project.
  • The College of Education Chicago Teacher Education Pipeline (CTEP) office just received a $10 million dollar grant for a new Urban Center.
  • Two special education faculty, Drs. Maribeth Lartz and Olaya Landa-Vialard, recently received a 5-year, $1.2 million dollar Personnel Preparation grant, EL VISTA. The grant was issued by the U. S. Department of Education and the acronym stands for: Early Learning Visual Impairment Services Training and Advancement.  
  • Read story about 3 special education faculty award winners.

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Research Workshops 

NCES Announces Online Dataset Training Modules

The Distance Learning Dataset Training (DLDT) program at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is releasing newly developed online training modules for several NCES complex survey datasets. 

The DLDT computer-based training module resource is an online, interactive   tool that allows users to learn about NCES data across the education spectrum   and evaluate it for suitability for particular research purposes.

There are two types of NCES DLDT modules that are available: Common modules   and survey-specific modules. The common modules help you understand NCES data across the education spectrum. They also discuss the methods NCES uses to ensure that the data, published products, and reports are consistent, reliable, complete, and accurate.

Lastly, the common modules help you understand how to access public- and   restricted-use datasets.  

The survey-specific modules provided in this training system present more   detailed information about the specific studies conducted by NCES.   Survey-specific modules are currently available for the following surveys: the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort (ECLS-B); the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K); the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09); the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS); the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS); the Program   for International Student Assessment (PISA); the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS); the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS), and the   Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B).
 
Start learning about NCES datasets.

 

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