From the Office of Research and Graduate Education: Congratulations to Richard Blissett, Elizabeth DeBray, Walker Swain, and Matthew Madison
Just Education Policy
- PI: Richard Blissett, assistant professor, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy
- Co-PIs: Elizabeth DeBray, professor; and Walker Swain, assistant professor, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy
- Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
- Amount: $49,999
Congratulations to assistant professors Richard Blissett and Walker Swain and professor Elizabeth DeBray for receiving a Spencer Foundation grant. The funding will help support the Just Education Policy Institute, a three-day program that brings together doctoral student scholars from across the nation with advocates and practitioners to:
- Gain contextual knowledge about racial equity and justice in education policy
- Discuss how to conduct public scholarship
- Engage with racial equity and justice work
- Discuss how to conduct research that centers on racial justice
Generalized, Multilevel, and Longitudinal Psychometric Models for Evaluating Educational Interventions
- PI: Matthew Madison, assistant professor, Department of Educational Psychology
- Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences
- Amount: $899,995
Congratulations to assistant professor Matthew Madison and his collaborators on receiving an Institute of Education Sciences grant. The purpose of this project is to develop and make accessible to applied researchers a multilevel extension to the longitudinal diagnostic classification model to help researchers take into account contextual effects that can impact the fidelity and effectiveness of an educational intervention.