Doctoral student receives $3K dissertation grant

School psychology doctoral student Leslie Blevins recently received the Fall 2015 Dissertation Grant from the Society for the Study of School Psychology to fund the pilot phase of her dissertation project, “Facilitating Teachers’ Choice of Evidence-Based Practices by Providing Internet-Based Video Modeling.”

The central purpose of the grant is to promote research training in the field of school psychology and to support doctoral students at the beginning of their research careers. Blevins will receive $3,727 to fund her study on how video modeling influences the selection of evidence-based interventions in teachers.

Additionally, Blevins will look at how professional development resources can be presented online for teachers in a more accessible manner. Doing so may encourage educators to choose websites that contain more rigorous validation criteria, she said.