Bayh College of Education
OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND EVALUATION
Services
In addition to the professional staff of the OERE, a select group of faculty members with special OERE appointments provides the following kinds of assistance to School of Education faculty and staff members and to personnel in schools and related agencies:
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Help prepare competitive proposals to intramural and extramural funding sources for support of research and evaluation projects
Help conceptualize and design research or evaluation projects
Help identify potential funding sources for research and evaluation projects
Help prepare and submit project proposals, including: reviewing and editing drafts of proposals, developing proposal budgets and timelines, designing project evaluation components, obtaining human subjects committee review, obtaining approvals and signatures, and providing methodological, statistical, and psychometric consultation
Help negotiate, manage, and evaluate funded research and evaluation projects
Help design and conduct research and evaluation projects that support the development of theory and support instruction
Help conceptualize research and evaluation projects and identify appropriate quantitative or qualitative research or evaluation designs
Help determine sample sizes and sampling procedures
Help develop plans and timelines for completing research or evaluation projects
Help identify, select, critique, and develop instruments for research and evaluation projects
Provide assistance in collecting, coding, entering, storing, and managing project data
Provide assistance in planning and completing analyses of project data
Help disseminate the outcomes of research and evaluation projects
Provide consultation on technical writing, including format, style, and layout
Provide technical editing of manuscripts
Provide pre-submission reviews of manuscripts
Provide assistance preparing tables and graphs
Provide assistance in locating and selecting appropriate publication outlets
Provide assistance revising manuscripts for publication in professional journals
Provide assistance preparing for the presentation of a paper or a poster at a professional meeting
Help increase skills in the use of information technology, including software for data base development and management, spreadsheet development and budgeting, statistical analyses, word processing, page layout and graphics, graphing, reference data base management, and multimedia presentations.