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New Two-Year Fellowship for UCLA PhD Students!

The Two-Year Fellowship is for advanced doctoral students focused on quantitative methods and interested in how such methods can be used in research addressing education issues in (but not limited to) mathematics teaching, learning and assessment.

AQM is looking for doctoral students in complementary Ph.D. programs from UCLA, such as the Departments of Biostatistics, Statistics, Social Welfare, Public Policy, Sociology, Education, Economics, and Psychology.

 

Must be a U.S. Citizen or permanent resident.

Apply today!


IES Conference June 28-30, 2010 Maryland

IES 2010


AQM Info Session

Do you have a Psychology, Education, Statistics, Math or Social Policy Background?

Interested in getting a PhD? Want $30K a year for graduate school?

Attend the AQM Info Session on 10/21/09!

Details: Wednesday, 10/21/09 6-8pm Moore Hall, Room 3340.

Learn about the AQM program from Profs Noreen Webb, Li Cai & Felipe Martinez and current PhD fellows. Get your questions answered and participate in the discussion about obtaining a PhD in Education Research!

Questions? Please contact our Program Coordinator, Matthew Palmer

Phone: (310) 825-5166 or Email: palmer@gseis.ucla.edu

Event flyer & PowerPoint from Info Session


AQM sponsored Event

Speaker John (Jack) McArdle, PhD

Issues in Longitudinal Structural Modeling of Life-Span Data

Friday, October 16 10am-12pm

Louis Jolyon West Auditorium (C8-183) in the Neuropsychiatric Institute building at
760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Dr. McArdle is Senior Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California where he heads the Quantitative Methods training program. He teaches classes in topics in psychometrics, multivariate analysis, longitudinal data analysis, exploratory data mining, and structural equation modeling. His research has been focused on age-sensitive methods for psychological and educational measurement and longitudinal data analysis including publications in factor analysis, growth curve analysis, and dynamic modeling of adult cognitive abilities. He was recently awarded an NIH-MERIT grant from the National Institute on Aging for his work on “Longitudinal and Adaptive Testing of Adult Cognition.” Working with the American Psychological Association he has led the Advanced Training Institute on Longitudinal Modeling (2000-2009) and Exploratory Data Mining (2009).

To request the video link of this talk, please contact: Matthew Palmer


 

SREE Conference March 4-6, 2010 Washington, DC

SREE 2010

Research into Practice at the 2010 SREE conference. The deadline to submit abstracts for symposia, paper and poster sessions is October 1, 2009.


AERA 2010 Annual Meeting April 30 – May 4

AERA 2010


In addition, AERA presents the 2nd annual In-Progress Research Gala at the 2010 Annual Meeting. If you are interested in sharing your research in progress (but not dissertation research) with an audience of interested researchers, including a panel of reviewers who will provide feedback on the research, check the website for a call for proposals in September '09:

http://www.aera.net/divisions/Default.aspx?menu_id=70&id=3896


SREE Conference March 1-3, 2009 in Viginia

SREE

Join us for the second annual conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) Sunday, 3/1 through Tuesday, 3/3 at the Hyatt Regency in Crystal City, Virginia.

Register and hotel information


AERA Annual meeting in San Diego, CA

AERA 2009

The 2009 AERA Annual Meeting will take place Monday, April 13 – Friday, April 17, 2009 in San Diego, CA.

Register and hotel information


WPA's 2009 Annual Convention in Portland, OR

2009 WPAThe Western Psychological Association's 2009 Annual Convention on April 23-26, 2009 at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Portland, Oregon.

 

 

Register and hotel information


4th Annual IES Conference June 7-9, 2009 in DC

IES 2009

Join us in Washington, DC for three days as a postee or attendee!

Register and hotel information