Recent Upgrades to Enhance Service to Faculty

• Implementation of a self-financing, state of the art survey service for creating, fielding, and managing large or small surveys in multiple languages. The service utilizes a line of powerful survey research tools from the SPSS Dimensions platform.
• Acquisition of a dedicated high speed scanner, computer and software which are capable of acquiring optical recognition (OCR) for Likert-type items, image blocks for essay type items and barcode fields.
• Establishment of research training seminars on advanced analysis methods and software tools that give researchers more important insights into research data, insights that might be missed using more basic methods.
• Establishment of consulting services to assist researchers in mastering the use of advanced and emerging research design and analysis methodologies and software.
• Acquisition of significant grant funds to establish the Division and support research within the college
• Establishment of a community to support faculty success in acquiring grant funding and designing and conducting high integrity research projects (Research Colloquium, Scholar / Mentor, and Faculty Fellow Programs).
• Acquisition of a database server for data collection, warehousing, and management.
• Hiring of a data manager to conceptualize, design, and implement a research database of teacher education data to facilitate the conduct of qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method cross-sectional and longitudinal educational and interdisciplinary research.
• Creation of a software library for use in qualitative and quantitative research.

Division Personnel

Dr. Eric Schmidt

Associate Professor of Curriculum & Instruction
Assistant Dean for Research
 

Kris Kahler

Academic Budget Specialist