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Introduction to SPSS with Robert Nichols 10/15

The College of EHE Research Methodology Center (RMC) is pleased to present :

 

Introduction to SPSS with Robert Nichols

Saturday, October 15, 9:00 am – 1:00pm

PAES Room 110

 

 

Register Here

 

 

 

 ssps-picture Are you new to SPSS?  Are you skills a bit rusty?  Are you just looking for a gentle introduction to get you back into the swing of data analysis?

 

Please join the RMC for this introduction to SPSS.  Robert Nichols will introduce you to the SPSS environment, teach you how to get your data into SPSS, and how to prepare it for analysis.  Robert’s workshop is hands-on so you will get a chance to work with the software on real (messy) data sets that we provide!

 

 
This event is FREE and open to all OSU Faculty, Students, Researchers, and Staff. 

 

Light refreshments will be provided.

 

Please contact Sandy Reed (reed.665@osu.edu) if you have any questions or require additional information!

 

 

Pauline Lipman Lecture and Open Discussion October 20-21 in Ramseyer Hall

Pauline Lipman

 

LECTURE

Neoliberal Education Policy and Anti-Black State Violence

October 20, 2016, Ramseyer Hall, Room 250 29th W. Woodruff Ave

 

OPEN DISCUSSION

On Activist Research

October 21st 10:00 – 11:30  Ramseyer Hall Room 136

 

Graduate Student Meeting with Lipman

October 20, 10-11 in RA 136

 

Pauline Lipman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Director of the Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago, member of the leadership body of Teachers for Social Justice–Chicago, and co-director of the Data & Democracy Project.  She is active in a range of coalitions with teachers and community organizations, and the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and policy reports, focusing race and class inequality in education, globalization, and political economy of urban education, particularly the inter-relationship of education policy, urban restructuring, & the politics of race.

 

Recent open-access works

 

Lipman, Pauline (2013).  Collaborative Research with Parents and Local Communities:

Organizing against racism and education privatization.  Forum Oświatowe.  http://bit.ly/2cfleWG

 

Gutstein, R. and Lipman, P. (2013).  The Rebirth of the Chicago Teachers Union and Possibilities for a Counter-Hegemonic Education Movement.  Monthly Review.   65(2)

http://bit.ly/1WxX9u7

 

Lipman, P. (2011). Contesting the city: neoliberal urbanism and the cultural politics of education reform in Chicago. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Educ, 32, http://bit.ly/2dtYPpk

 

Lipman, P. (2012). Mixed income schools and housing policy in Chicago: A critical examination of the gentrification/education/”racial” exclusion nexus.  http://bit.ly/2dOr7OM

 

Lipman et al., (2014). Root Shock:  Parents’ Perspectives on School Closings in Chicago

http://bit.ly/2dPvkOq

 

Relevant open-access Works by Others

The Movement for Black Lives  Platform,  https://policy.m4bl.org/platform/

 

Jacobin (2013).  A Class Action.  [booklet on the 2012 Chicago Teachers Strike, free pdf:  https://www.jacobinmag.com/supplements/ctu_booklet_final_web.pdf ]

 

Videos and Podcasts

2015 Chicago Teachers for Social Justice Keynote with Dr. Monique Redeaux—Smith, with responses by Jeanette Taylor-Ramann, Jitu Brown, Prudence Browne, and Pauline Lipman http://bit.ly/2cLUkFL

On Democracy Now discussing 2012 Chicago Teachers Union strike  http://bit.ly/2cu0CfM

Privatization, Charters & High Stakes Tests: Arne Duncan’s Legacy.  Real News Network.  Interview with Pauline Lipman and Jose Luis Vilson.   http://bit.ly/2cOxX5J

Podcast:  Pauline Lipman (2013) “Dimensions of an emergent counter-hegemony in education: Reflections on Chicago” Havens Center, U. of Wisconsin.   http://havenscenter.org/audio/download/1113/lipman2.mp3

Podcast:  Pauline Lipman (2013).  Education and Urban Crisis.  Havens Center, U. of Wisconsin. http://havenscenter.org/audio/download/1112/lipman1.mp3

 

 

GAA Opportunity in CSSL- Application Reviews Begin October 17

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GAA opportunity in CSSL for SP ’17

 

The Center for the Study of Student Life anticipates hiring a Graduate Administrative Associate (GAA) for the Spring 2017 semester. This would be a 50%, 20 hour a week appointment.

 

The GAA will perform the following duties:

  • Aid in the design, data-gathering, and reporting of Student Life assessment projects
  • Coordinate and perform quantitative and/or qualitative analyses
  • Prepare reports and presentations
  • Participate in staff meetings and retreats
  • Complete ad hoc requests as assigned

 

Qualifications

Required:

  • Enrolled in a Master’s or PhD program in education, the social sciences, public health or a related field
  • Bachelor’s degree in Social Science, Education, Statistics, Business Administration or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience

 

Desired:

  • Experience in assessment-related work in a university setting
  • Experience with survey development and quantitative analysis
  • Experience with qualitative data collection and analysis
  • Knowledge of student learning and student development theory
  • Experience with survey software and statistical analysis software
  • Demonstrated experience presenting data and research on student affairs topics

 

Applications:

Review of applications will begin on October 17, 2016. Please submit a cover letter, curricula vita/resume, a writing sample, and a list of three professional references.

 

Applications may be submitted via email to:

 

Dr. D’Arcy Oaks

Senior Associate Director

Center for the Study of Student Life

Email: oaks.9@osu.edu

 

 

Penn State Distinguished Professor Dr. Linda Collins Presentation 9/29

The EHE Research Methodology Center (RMC) is Proud to Present Penn State Distinguished Professor Dr. Linda Collins!

 

penn-state-dr-linda-collins Featured Speaker: Linda Collins, Ph.D.    

The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) for Developing More Effective, Efficient, Economical, and Scalable Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions

Thursday, September 29, 9:30 – 11:00am, Ramseyer 260

 

Director of The Methodology Center at Penn State, Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS), and Professor of Statistics Linda Collins will present her groundbreaking work on adaptive designs and intervention optimization.

Behavioral and biobehavioral interventions (BBIs) are used widely for prevention and treatment of health problems, and for promotion of well-being and academic achievement.  BBIs are typically developed and evaluated using a treatment package approach, in which the intervention is assembled a priori and evaluated by means of a two-group randomized controlled trial (RCT).   Dr. Collins will describe an alternative framework for developing, optimizing, and evaluating BBIs.  This framework, called the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), is a principled approach that has been inspired by ideas from engineering.  Dr. Collins proposes that MOST offers more rapid long-run improvement of the effectiveness, efficiency, economy, and scalability of BBIs, without requiring a dramatic increase in research resources.

 

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All RMC events are free, and open to all faculty and graduate students.  However, RSVP’s are requested for all events.  Use the links provided to register! You can find our calendar of events, methodology support, consulting help, and RMC news at our website at rmc.ehe.osu.edu

 

To subscribe/unsubscribe, please contact Sandra Reed at reed.665@osu.edu.

 

 

Travel Grants sponsored by DISCO

Diversity and Identity Studies Collective at OSU

 

Undergraduate & Graduate
Student Travel Grants

 

Awards up to $300

 

Fall Deadline: 10/15/2016 at 11:59p

 

Eligible undergraduate students must be declared as a major or minor in American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Disability Studies, Latina/o Studies, or Sexuality Studies. Graduate students must be enrolled in the GIS in Disability Studies, Latina/o Studies, or Sexuality Studies and/or delivering a paper or doing research on a topic relevant to American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Disability Studies, and/or Sexuality Studies.

 

For more information & to apply: http://disco.osu.edu/students/grants

Questions? Contact us at disco@osu.edu

Presentation from Versatile PhD on 10/4

Paula Chambers, founder and CEO of the Versatile PhD, will present two interactive workshops on October 4, both focused on alternative careers for PhDs.

For Graduate Students

Dr. Chambers’s “From Skills to Results: Describing Your PhD Skills to Non-Academic Employers” will describe her own bumpy journey from graduate student to grant writer to business owner. She’ll talk about the current academic job market and demystify how to identify and articulate transferable skills. In the work shop graduate students will:

  • Learn where the PhD career pipeline really goes
  • Take inventory of the skills they’ve used in graduate school
  • Identify concrete results they’ve achieved with those skills
  • Learn how to describe those results in non-academic language
  • Discover new career resources at Ohio State

Tuesday, October 4, 2016
9:00 – 11:00am
Grand Lounge, The Ohio State Faculty Club
A light breakfast will be served.

The event is free and open to all, but space is limited.

To register: http://discovery.osu.edu/focus-areas/humanities-and-arts/events/versatile-phd-ceo-paula-chambers-to-engage-graduate-students,-faculty-and-staff-on-october-4.html

Program Director Position Available! Apply Now!

Program Director Position Open at the Ohio Education Research Center (OERC) and the Ohio Longitudinal Data Archive (OLDA). See a basic description below. For the complete job posting see: https://www.jobsatosu.com/postings/72931.

The Ohio Education Research Center (OERC) & Ohio Longitudinal Data Archive (OLDA) at The Ohio State University within The John Glenn College of Public Affairs and the Center for Human Resource Research in the College of Arts and Sciences seeks a Director of Operations to provide a broad range of outreach & engagement, research and operations administration.

The OERC & OLDA Operations Director oversees the day to day services, functions, and employees of the centers, with a particular focus on external operations. This position serves as the principal agent in charge of maintaining and growing relationships. The OERC & OLDA Operations Director is expected to oversee the centers’ relationships with funding entities such as the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services or the Ohio Department of Education and manage these relationships with state and local government by working closely with communications and research officers that hold our contracts. This position oversees center communications, guides and facilitates the processes to negotiate terms and conditions as well as scopes of work for projects with state and federal authorities (in collaboration with Office of Legal Affairs and Office of Sponsored Programs), and serves on several critical governance committees that are staffed by state and university staff/faculty. She or he also provides presentations at and acts as a representative of the OLDA and OERC at federal, state and local meetings. This position is also responsible for writing and submitting grant proposals and generating grant reports for awarded projects and contracts.

This position will be located in The John Glenn College of Public Affairs in Page Hall on OSU’s main campus. This person will report to the OERC & OLDA Director and have regular working hours of Monday-Friday from 8:00 am-5:00pm. Working hours may be adjusted during times of high activity in the centers and/or for special events. Some travel to research sites within the state of Ohio will be required. This position is grant funded and contingent upon continued funding availability.