The Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) offers advice on becoming a successful researcher in the field of STEM education and a portrait of an early career researcher support program. The advice offered throughout the guide comes from experienced researchers who are part of the National Science Foundation's Discovery…

This document outlines the activities of Dr. David Madsen during one year as a USOE postdoctoral fellow at the University of California. During this time he completed a 40-page study entitled "Daniel C. Gilman: President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington" and an essay "On Preparing the Doctoral Dissertation." Work was continued on an…

This program was designed to prepare research specialists for public and private schools through a combination of credit instruction, non-credit instruction and seminars, and field work in various research situations. Thirteen fellows took part in the program, which covered one academic year and one summer session, and each carried out an…

The author describes her activities and accomplishments during a fellowship tenure and provides an assessment of the effect of the scholarship policy on her achievements. She concentrated on adult basic education (ABE) programs, literature, and research. Activities included participation in a workshop in adult basic education, and in meetings of…

The final quarter of Krause's fellowship year was spent in completing his interviews with political socialization researchers in the eastern United States and his work on methodological problems. Krause also completed a long essay on the nature and implications of the "matrix perspective" for research planning, pursued his study of measurement…

This program was designed to prepare leaders in educational research and development. Its main features were attendance at credit and noncredit courses at the University of Wisconsin, the pursuit of personal research interests, and participation in activities of the Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning. The three specific…

During one year as a 1968-69 U.S. Office of Education Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, the author attended three USOE orientation sessions and ten professional conferences and wrote three papers for presentation at these conferences. He conducted research on educational testing and methods of test analysis, and…

This postdoctoral fellowship program involved the following three phases: 1) systematic instruction in the sociology of complex organizations with particular emphasis on the organizational analysis of schools and schooling; 2) systematic instruction in multivariate regression approaches to non-experimental research with particular emphasis on…

A year of postdoctoral study included work in research methodology and in adult learning and instruction. Knowledge of research methodology was improved by course work in mathematics, mathematical statistics, experimental design, psychological scaling, logical, and philosophy of science. This knowledge was applied in the design of several studies…

This report gives a general outline of the postdoctoral fellowship program offered by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and describes the specific program designed for Dr. William Wiersma, director of the Center for Educational Research and Services at the University of Toledo, who was the only fellow during 1969-70. In addition to attendance…

During his postdoctoral fellowship year, Dr. Morgan took formal course work in computer programing, advanced research design, projective techniques, the physiology of aging, and hypnosis. He also attended weekly seminars in the Institute of Environmental Stress and conducted an investigation entitled "The Alteration of Perceptual and Metabolic…

This report describes and evaluates a residential postdoctoral program in educational research at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Activities normally engaged in by the fellows in this program include the following: (1) Reading, study, and reflection; (2) analysis of data, writing, and rewriting; (3)…

During his postdoctoral fellowship year, Dr. William L. Goodwin audited courses on early childhood learning and development and on research methodology. He also attended numerous conferences and visited preschool EPDA programs. The report contains a complete list of courses audited, conferences attended, and schools visited. (RT)

The Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Educational Research at the University of Pittsburgh afforded the opportunity for two selected participants to engage in intensive study which expanded their capabilities in the area of research methodology. In addition, the program provided them with extensive research experience. A plan for individual study…

This report outlines the activities of the chairman of the Speech Department of San Francisco State College during the 1968-69 postdoctoral fellowship year. The year's study was divided between the Studies in Nonverbal Behavior Department of Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute and the Education Policy Research Center of Stanford Research…