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Research Scholarship,In the Education, Sociology, Economics, Psychology, Demography, Statistics and Psychometric.

Job Description: With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the AERA Grants Program announces its Research Grants competition. The program seeks to stimulate research on U.S. education issues using data from the large-scale, national and international data sets supported by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, and other federal agencies, and to increase the number of education researchers using these data sets. The program supports research projects that are quantitative in nature, include the analysis of existing data from NCES, NSF or other federal agencies, and have U.S. education policy relevance.

Description
AERA invites education-related research proposals using NCES, NSF, and other federal data bases. Research Grants are available for faculty at institutions of higher education, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral-level scholars. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics.

The Governing Board for the AERA Grants Program has established the following four strands of emphasis for proposals. Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals that:
* develop or benefit from new quantitative measures or methodological approaches for addressing education issues
* include interdisciplinary teams with subject matter expertise, especially when studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning
* analyze TIMSS, PISA, or other international data resources
* include the integration and analysis of more than one data set

Research projects related to at least one of the strands above and to science and/or mathematics education are especially encouraged. Other topics of interest include policies and practices related to student achievement in STEM, contextual factors in education, educational participation and persistence (kindergarten through graduate school), early childhood education, and postsecondary education. The research project must include the analysis of data from at least one of the large-scale, nationally or internationally representative data sets supported by NCES, NSF, or other federal agency, such as the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the National Institutes of Health. Additional data sets may be used in conjunction with the obligatory federal data set. If international data sets are used, the study must include U.S. education.

Eligibility
Applicants for Research Grants may be U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or non-U.S. citizens and must be working at a U.S. institution. Applicants must have received the doctoral degree by the start date of the grant. Underrepresented minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply.

Please note that researchers who have previously received a major award through the AERA Grants Program (i.e., AERA Research Grant as a PI or Co-PI, AERA Postdoctoral Fellowship, or AERA Fellowship) may not apply for a Research Grant. However, applicants who have received an AERA Dissertation Grant are eligible to apply for a Research Grant. Dissertation Grant recipients must complete the Dissertation Grant before applying for a Research Grant.

Awards
Awards for Research Grants are up to $20,000 for 1-year projects, or up to $35,000 for 2-year projects. In accordance with AERA’s agreement with the funding agencies, institutions may not charge indirect costs or overhead on these awards. Approximately 15 Research Grants will be awarded per year.

Application Requirements
All applications for Research Grants must include:
* Information on the PI (contact and background information, current curriculum vitae) and Co-PI(s), if applicable.
* Abstract of the proposed research project
* Statement of how this research advances the current state of knowledge in the field, substantively or methodologically.
* Research proposal (limited to 7 single-spaced pages) that addresses the following:
o Problem statement/policy issue and its importance
o Theoretical or conceptual framework for the research
o Brief review of relevant research/policy literature
o Research questions, hypotheses to be tested
o Description of methodology including proposed data set and criteria for selecting data file, sample (e.g., groups used, exclusions to sample, and estimated sample sizes), selection of variables and rationale for using them, and analytic techniques
o Connections between the potential findings and the policy issue
o Brief dissemination plan for this research

* Conceptual or figural model outlining the framework or design of the study
* Statistical model or formulas, appropriately defined, that are connected to the conceptual model
* Categorized list of variables from the NSF, NCES, or other federal data set(s) to be used
* References cited in the proposal narrative and models
* Proposed budget
* Brief list of current other support (grants, awards, etc.)

Application Deadlines
Proposals for Research Grants will be reviewed three times a year, with funding decisions made within a month of the review date. Upcoming deadlines for proposals are:

September 1, 2010 to be reviewed in October
January 6, 2011 to be reviewed in February
March 9, 2011 to be reviewed in April

Application Submission
Proposals must be submitted electronically. Applicants should read carefully the entire Call for Proposals and the Submission Instructions prior to starting the online submission process. Applicants will be asked to enter specific information in text boxes and upload documents that have been saved in PDF. The deadline for submission is 11:59pm EDT on Wednesday, September 1, 2010. Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals in advance of the deadline. Submission must be made electronically on the AERA Research Grant submission web page.
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Scholarship Tags: Demography, Economics, EDUCATION, Psychology, Psychometric, Sociology, Statistics, USA