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Training Interdisciplinary Educational Scientists (TIES) Program

NCER
Program: Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences
Program topic(s): Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences
Award amount: $4,928,128
Principal investigator: Karen L. Bierman
Awardee:
Pennsylvania State University
Year: 2009
Award period: 6 years (08/01/2009 - 07/31/2015)
Project type:
Training
Award number: R305B090007

Purpose

The Pennsylvania State University Training Interdisciplinary Educational Scientists (TIES) Program aimed to train educational scientists with expertise in literacy and social and emotional competence and with expertise in statistics and research methods necessary for conducting cluster randomized trials. 

Project Activities

TIES bridged resources and capacities of three Colleges (Education, Health and Human Development, Liberal Arts) and six interdisciplinary research centers at Penn State (Children, Youth, and Families Consortium; Center for Human Development and Family Research in Diverse Contexts; Child Study Center; Methodology Center; Prevention Research Center; and Center for Applied Educational and Developmental Sciences). TIES fellows were involved in coursework, seminars, summer institutes, and research apprenticeships that will expose them to cutting-edge work in literacy and social and emotional learning and that will underscore the developmental interplay between these two critical domains of school adjustment. The program's core research training emphasized cluster randomized trials, management of the research process, grant writing, and applied research experiences.

Key outcomes

Twenty-two fellows received funding support from this award and completed the training program.

People and institutions involved

IES program contact(s)

Katina Stapleton

Completed fellows

Rachel Abenavoli

Amber Mason

Christopher Anthony

Erin Mathis

Charles Beekman

Devin McGuier

Kristine Bova

Aaron Miller

Gordon Hall

Mojdeh Motamedi

Alexis Harris

Kate Norwalk

Deirdre Hon

Melissa Ray

Carla Kalvin

Tyler Sasser

Phyllis Lee

Emile Tilghman-Osborne

John Loughlin-Presnal

Cynthia Willner

Rebecca Madill

Kathleen Zadzora

Products and publications

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

SELECT PUBLICATIONS FROM COMPLETED FELLOWS:

IES is in the process of updating citations for training grants. In the meantime, you can find publications associated with this grant in ERIC and by using Google Scholar.

Updated November 2022

Related projects

Training Educational Scientists (TIES) Program

R305B150033

Questions about this project?

To answer additional questions about this project or provide feedback, please contact the program officer.

 

Tags

LiteracySocial/Emotional/Behavioral

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