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Proseminar: Partnership in Education Research (PIER) Fellowship
EDU S805Y

Course Information

Description

This yearlong seminar is designed to provide students in the Partnership in Education Research (PIER) Fellowship program an opportunity to learn how to work with school agencies to produce research that both meets high scholarly standards and informs education decision-making. Following public seminars, speakers will be invited to provide a “director’s cut” narrative of how their research projects evolved, as well as the challenges they faced and resolved along the way. On weeks without a public seminar, the course will also cover specific practical skills and knowledge needed to conduct educational research, including topics such as understanding how school agencies are organized, communicating bad news, working with an institutional review board, protecting student confidentiality, data cleaning, communicating findings to nontechnical audiences, career planning, identifying funding opportunities and grant management.
Permission of instructor required. Enrollment is limited to, and required for, Ph.D. students participating in the PIER Fellowship program.

School Graduate School of Education
Credits 2
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Department Education
Course Component Regular Course
Instruction Mode In Person
Subject Education
Grading Basis HGSE Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Learning Goals Working with state and district leaders, communicating with non-technical audiences, requirements of working with human research subjects, investigating sources of funding, career planning.
Career Focus The course is for doctoral students from HKS, HGSE and FAS preparing for a career doing research with public school agencies.
Pedagogy N/A