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

这是一项旨在发展强大的教育研究基础设施的活动系统建议。 它包含一个研究和培训计划，利用大规模的国家和国际数据集进行定量教育政策和实践相关研究。 它将支持联邦机构的研究员计划、博士研究员、小额赠款竞赛、统计数据库分析培训，以及一系列针对其他方式无法解决的特别重点问题的特别目标会议“智囊团”。 研究人员，大多处于初级水平，将从数学，科学，教育，社会学，经济学和心理学领域竞争这些项目，并且经常跨学科工作。 赠款委员会将每年举行3次会议，建议赠款并监测赠款活动。 该补助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.