School discipline disproportionality has long been documented in educational research, primarily impacting Black/African American and non-White Hispanic/Latinx students. In response, federal policymakers have encouraged educators to change their disciplinary practice, emphasizing that more proactive support is critical to promoting students'…

School discipline disproportionality has long been documented in educational research, primarily impacting Black/African American and non-White Hispanic/Latinx students. In response, federal policymakers have encouraged educators to change their disciplinary practice, emphasizing that more proactive support is critical to promoting students'…

The purpose of this study was to conduct a quantitative content analysis of the conference session programs from the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER) annual meetings across five decades spanning from 1960 through 2010. The data cycled through an analysis during four separate phases. In total, 4,605 conference sessions were…

A 1-year program was aimed at training 9 undergraduate students in techniques of social research and statistics as they apply to the field of education. During the second semester of their junior year trainees took a 4-credit-hour course in methods of social research and participated in a 2-credit project involving lectures, conferences, field…

Three postdoctoral fellows completed a 38-week training program designed to familiarize scientists already experienced in educational research with the techniques of designing and executing a large-scale, long-range educational research project. The program was conducted by the research staff of Project TALENT, a project of the Institute for…

The purpose of an 8-week summer training institute was to provide 25 competent professional school personnel the necessary methodological skills to initiate, conduct, and report experiments on school learning and instruction. All trainees held administrative posts with responsibilities for curriculum research and development and/or instruction. A…

Discusses the workshop for advanced (secondary) statistical analysis of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1997 Arts Reports Card, attended by a team of arts researchers. Provides a discussion on the Arts Report Card, the secondary analysis, and an explanation of the database. Highlights implications for the field. (CMK)