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Proseminar: Partnership in Education Research (PIER) Fellowship
EDU S806Y

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
Course Requirements Enrollment in this course requires completion of S805Y.
Learning Goals Understanding how school agencies are organized; working with an institutional review board; presenting technical findings with public officials; building professional network with leading researchers.
Career Focus The Partners in Education Research (PIER) program is intended for Harvard PhD students planning to do quantitative empirical research in collaboration with school agencies. Graduates typically pursue careers as tenure track faculty or in private research firms.
Competency N/A