GAANN Fellowships available for PhD students in Measurement, Evaluation, and Assessment at University of Connecticut
The Measurement, Evaluation, and Assessment (MEA) program in the Educational Psychology Department at University of Connecticut is seeking outstanding students with an interest in measurement, assessment, evaluation, educational research and statistics, or quantitative methodology for our graduate programs. We offer an MA and a PhD in Educational Psychology, with an area of concentration in Measurement, Evaluation, and Assessment. Our students typically pursue careers in academia, in state or federal agencies, in testing companies (such as ETS, Pearson, Riverside) or in research and development firms (such as MDRC, AIR, Education Development Center). Our students come from a variety of undergraduate majors including Psychology, Statistics, Mathematics, Education, Economics, and Sociology, just to name a few.
We are excited to announce that we have been awarded a GAANN Grant from the US Department of Education. This competitive grant helps to provide us with significant additional financial resources to support PhD students in our MEA program who:
1. Demonstrate academic merit and maintain satisfactory academic progress toward a PhD degree;
2. Demonstrate financial need. The amount of the fellowship award is directly tied to a student’s demonstrated need. Need is determined by the University of Connecticut’s financial aid office and is based on student responses to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
3. Are US citizens or permanent residents.
The GAANN fellowship covers tuition, fees, and health insurance, as well as a stipend of up to $30,000 per year (the actual amount is determined by the financial aid office, and is based on the student’s determined level of need). We also offer graduate assistantships on a competitive basis to incoming students, and these are awarded based on merit, not need. We are currently actively seeking and recruiting bright, motivated, quantitatively oriented students who are interested in pursuing a PhD in Measurement, Evaluation, and Assessment, starting in the fall of 2013. All graduate assistantships and GAANN awards are competitive awards. If you are interested in learning more about the MEA program, please see our website, h<http://neag.uconn.edu/mea/>ttp://neag.uconn.edu/mea/<http://neag.uconn.edu/mea/> or contact our program coordinator, Dr. D. Betsy McCoach (betsy.mccoach@uconn.edu<mailto:betsy.mccoach@uconn.edu>). Applications for the PhD programs are due February 1, 2013.
