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Date: Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:45 PM<br>Subject: FW: Postdoc at Penn<br><br>Two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Education Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education<br>
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The University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education announces continuation of a two-year post-doctoral fellowship program. The program hired one post-doctoral fellow last year (2010) and will hire one post-doctoral fellow every year for the next four years, creating a cohort of fellows. Preferred start date for this year is between May 1st and September 1st, 2011. The fellowship includes a salary of $50,000 per year, plus health insurance, conference travel, professional development, and a computer fund.<br>
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Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences, this post-doctoral fellowship is designed to foster fellows as independent scholars. Emphasis is on developing and/or refining the fellow's methods, design, fieldwork and/or substantive area expertise in education impact research, providing opportunities for scholarly publication and the<br>
development of the fellow's independent research agenda.<br>
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While all are invited to apply, we have targeted the program to two types of fellows.<br>
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One is an applicant strong in methods and analysis, who wants to hone those skills and acquire more sophisticated design, measurement, and statistical skills in an applied setting, while developing insight and understanding of education issues and gaining experience with education research. This might<br>
be a candidate from a field such as economics, sociology, psychology, or political science.<br>
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Another type of applicant may have a solid foundation in education, but wants to develop more sophisticated and rigorous design and statistical analysis skills, while gaining deeper insight and experience with specific education policy issues and conducting fieldwork in schools. This might be an applicant from an education school.<br>
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The program, broadly focused on the effects of leadership and teaching on student achievement, targets three main areas: 1) theory, 2) research design and methods, and 3) fieldwork.<br>
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The research projects that fellows will participate in are designed to allow fellows to perform at the highest levels of methodological and substantive rigor. Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in two of several research projects. These include:<br>
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1. a mixed method longitudinal study of math teachers' mentoring and induction and their effects on teacher knowledge, instruction, and student achievement;<br>
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2. a randomized experiment designed to test the effectiveness of a cognitive science curriculum/professional development intervention in middle school science;<br>
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3. the psychometric validation of a cutting-edge leadership assessment, and;<br>
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4. longitudinal multi-level analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten cohort, to examine the effects of instruction on the achievement gap.<br>
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These projects offer opportunities for developing expertise in 1) qualitative analysis and fieldwork, including development and analysis of surveys, interviews and classroom observations, 2) the measurement of instruction, 3) multi-level longitudinal modeling, 4) Item Response Theory (IRT), 5) psychometrics, 6) design and analysis of randomized experiments, 7) designing customized student assessments, and 8) studying education policy implementation.<br>
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Fellows will be encouraged to take leadership roles on the projects in which they participate. Projects are at various stages, so there are opportunities for designing instruments, conducting fieldwork, and analysis of already collected data.<br>
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Fellows are also invited to participate in the seminars and methods modules that are part of Penn's IES pre-doctoral fellows program (see <a href="http://www.gse.upenn.edu/pimfer/overview.html" target="_blank">http://www.gse.upenn.edu/pimfer/overview.html</a> ).<br>
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Fellows will work on collaborative interdisciplinary project teams which include public policy analysts, psychometricians, sociologists, economists, and others. The program will also include opportunities for writing research proposals, both for independent projects and for extending the current projects.<br>
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For breadth of experience, fellows will have both a primary and secondary mentor. The primary mentor will be Laura Marie Desimone, associate professor of public policy and education, or Andrew Porter, George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education and Dean of the Graduate School of Education. Collaborators who might serve as secondary mentors include Robert Boruch (psychologist/statistician), or others at the University of Pennsylvania, depending on the fellows' area of interest.<br>
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Applicants must have received their doctoral degree by the start date. Three letters of recommendation, a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and two publications or papers should be sent to <a href="mailto:lauramd@gse.upenn.edu">lauramd@gse.upenn.edu</a> . In your letter of interest, please specify how your interest, expertise and targeted areas for development fit with the proposed projects, and what you hope to gain from a postdoctoral fellowship position. The deadline for applications is December 10. We will continue to review applications after that, as needed. Please direct inquiries to Professor Laura M. Desimone at <a href="mailto:lauramd@gse.upenn.edu">lauramd@gse.upenn.edu</a> .<br>
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The University of Pennsylvania is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Due to U.S. Department of Education regulations, applicants must be U.S. citizens.<br>
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