The American Educational Research Association (AERA) with funding support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is pleased to announce a dissertation fellowship program to support graduate students in education research to conduct secondary data analysis using the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Longitudinal Database. The AERA-MET Dissertation Fellowship Program provides funding and professional development and training to dissertation stage graduate students who use the MET data to address research questions and examine issues that will contribute to knowledge about teaching and learning. The program supports high-quality science undertaken by the education research field through dissertation research on topics related to teaching and instruction, the effects of the classroom and school climate, student achievement, children and youth, and other educational issues.
There will be a live AERA-MET Webinar on January 16, 2014 at 2:00PM EST at AERA.net
The AERA-MET Dissertation Fellowship Program deadline is March 3, 2014.
More information about the Fellowship program can be found at the AERA-MET Dissertation Fellowship Program Website.
Questions
Please address any questions to fellowships@aera.net or 202-238-3200.
Resources
To help familiarize candidates with the MET study and the MET data, applicants are encouraged to consult the important MET websites for information:
An Introduction to the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Longitudinal Database. This course provides an overview of the MET Project, including data collection procedures and types of data collected. Instructors discuss the opportunities for research with MET data and describe procedures for obtaining access to the MET Longitudinal Database. This course is available through the AERA-Virtual Research Learning Center (http://www.aera.net/VRLC).
MET Project. The MET Project website, www.metproject.org, contains information about the development of the data, project history and news, and potential issues and topics that studies might address.