We are pleased to offer two pre-conference training sessions! Pre-conference session A runs from 10:00 am to 12:45 pm and pre-conference session B runs from 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM on Wednesday, October 20. These are great opportunities to learn in-depth about a topic taught by experts in the field — at no charge! Pre-registration is required. Pre-conference Session B will be limited to 15 participants and is a full-day workshop.

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSION A

Survey Design and Development

Presenter: Dr. Katherine McCormick, University of Kentucky

The purpose of the training session is to provide attendees with an overview of survey design. (more to follow)

Dr. Katherine McCormick is an Associate Professor in Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education and holds the James W. and Diane V. Stuckert Service-Learning Professor in the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling. Dr. McCormick was recently appointed by Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear to the Kentucky Early Childhood Development Authority. Her research with other colleagues at UK includes a three-year research and evaluation project of the Kentucky primary program and a seven-year federally funded project to study transition for young children with disabilities and their families across the early childhood years. Her work with the Endowment includes work on campus to encourage more faculty to use service-learning in their coursework and to promote the inclusion of service-learning and engagement into UK promotion and tenure policy. Most recently, she has focused her efforts on international service-learning in Ecuador.

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSION B

NVivo 8 Fundamentals

Presenter: Dr. Kelly Godfrey, The College Board

This session is a training for QSR International’s NVivo software, a powerful qualitative data analysis tool that allows users to simultaneously code audio, video, picture, and text within one interface. Participants will receive hands-on training in data preparation, importing, coding, conducting queries, and demonstrating and sharing findings using NVivo. A laptop and pre-installed version of NVivo 8 (free trial or full version) is required.

Dr. Kelly Godfrey is an Associate Research Scientist at the College Board.  She received her doctoral degree from the Educational Research Methodology department at UNC Greensboro, and has been a trainer for QSR’s qualitative analysis software for over 6 years.  Her research focuses primarily in psychometrics, including IRT and test equating, and program evaluation, including mixed methods and responsive evaluation approaches.

OTHER FEATURED SESSIONS:

MENTORING ROUNDTABLES
These roundtables will allow mid-level and senior scholars to work with a small number of doctoral students and junior faculty, again in the spirit of strengthening educational research.

TEACHER-AS-RESEARCH AWARD WINNER PRESENTATION
GRADUATE STUDENT ISSUES COMMITTEE SESSION