Enhancing the Education Research Infrastructure to Conduct Large-Scale Studies of Policy and Practice

这是一个旨在发展强大的教育研究基础设施的活动系统的建议。它包含一项研究和培训计划，以便利用大规模的国家和国际数据集进行定量教育政策和与实践有关的研究。它将支持联邦机构的研究员项目、博士研究员、小额赠款竞赛、统计数据库分析培训，以及一系列针对特殊重点问题的“智囊团”会议。研究人员，大多是初级水平的，将从数学、科学、教育、社会学、经济学和心理学等领域竞争这些项目，而且往往是跨学科的。资助委员会每年举行三次会议，就资助数额提出建议，并监察资助活动。该基金由加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的一个办公室管理。

This is a proposal for a system of activities intended to develop a strong research infrastructure in education. It contains a program of research and training for conducting quantitative education policy and practice-related research using large-scale national and international data sets. It would support a fellows program to federal agencies, doctoral fellows, a small grants competition, training in statistical data base analysis, and a series of special targeted meetings "think tanks" for special focused issues not addressed otherwise. Researchers, mostly at beginning levels, would compete for these programs from fields of mathematics, sciences, education, sociology, economics, and psychology and often work across disciplines. The Grants Board would meet 3 times a year to recommend grant awards and to monitor the grant activities. The grant is managed by an office at University of California, Santa Barbara.