Training and Outreach

Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program
Principal Investigator: Larry V. Hedges

The Q-Center has created a four-year postdoctoral training program with funding from the Institute of Education Sciences. The program aims to train postdoctoral fellows in applied education research and produce a new generation of education researchers dedicated to solving the pressing challenges facing the American educational system through methodologically rigorous and relevant research. It will accept two to four fellows per year for a two-year fellowship. For more information about the program, please contact Patricia Ferguson (847-467-4001) or p-ferguson@northwestern.edu.

Society for the Research on Educational Effectiveness
Principal Investigator: Mark Constas, Cornell University
Co-Principal Investigators: Barbara Foorman, University of Texas Health Sciences Center; and Larry V. Hedges, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University

The Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) was formed to provide an organizational infrastructure that supports and promotes research focused on cause-and-effect relations important for education. The field of education research has always worked to construct a foundation of knowledge upon which educational practices may be reliably based. For nearly a century now, the American Educational Research Association has been the main professional organization that has supported and disseminated the work of education researchers. While recognizing the great contribution that AERA has made and will continue to make to education, many in the field of education have expressed the need for a more narrowly focused research organization. The Institute of Education Sciences has provided a grant for the new organization.