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Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research and Training Fellowship in the Educational Sciences (IPoRT Fellowships)

NCER
Program: Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences
Program topic(s): Postdoctoral Research Training Program in the Education Sciences
Award amount: $650,020
Principal investigator: Bruce Homer
Awardee:
City University of New York (CUNY)
Year: 2008
Award period: 4 years (07/01/2008 - 06/30/2012)
Project type:
Training
Award number: R305B080007

Purpose

The Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research and Training Fellowship in the Educational Sciences (IPoRT Fellowships) prepared future leaders in educational science and technology research. 

Project Activities

IPoRT fellows learned to apply state-of-the-art knowledge from cognitive science and the science of learning to understand students' educational experiences and to develop and rigorously evaluate new educational products and approaches. Given the growing importance of computers and the Internet for education and research, the training program had a strong focus on the use of technology for developing educational tools and technology as a tool for conducting educational research. The IPoRT Fellowships produced scholars who have the knowledge of theory and rigorous methodological and statistical skills to make major contributions to our understanding of learning and education and who can develop and empirically validate technology-based solutions for real-world educational settings

Key outcomes

As of 2020, Dr. Letourneau was a senior research associate at the New York Hall of Science, Dr. Ng was an associate professor in the Department of Education Psychology and associate director of the CUHK Brain and Mind Institute at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Dr. O'Keefe was an assistant professor of Psychology at Yale-NUS College.

People and institutions involved

IES program contact(s)

Corinne Alfeld

Education Research Analyst
NCER

Completed fellows

Susan Letourneau

Florrie Ng

Paul O'Keefe

Darsh Ramdass

Products and publications

Publications:

ERIC Citations: Find available citations in ERIC for this award here.

Selected Publications by the Fellows:

O'Keefe, P. A. (2013). Mindsets and Self-evaluation: How Beliefs About Intelligence can Create a Preference for Growth Over Defensiveness. In S.B. Kaufman (Ed.,) The Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or Practice (pp. 119-134). OUP USA.

O'Keefe, P.A., Letourneau, S.M., Homer, B.D., Schwartz, R.N., and Plass, J.L. (2014). Learning From Multiple Representations: An Examination of Fixation Patterns in a Science Simulation. Computers in Human Behavior, 35, 234-242. doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.02.040

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Data and AssessmentsEducation Technology

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