WCER Graduate Training Brownbag Series 2009-10

Grant Writing: A Recipe for Success

Cathy Loeb and Tom Kratochwill will share tips, lessons learned and insights form more than six decades of combined experience. Ms. Loeb currently serves as a Distinguished Administrative Program Specialist for the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. In that capacity, she provides pre-award grants administration and editorial services and serves on the School of Education's Institutional Review Board.

Professor Kratochwill is the Sears-Bascom Professor and Director of the School Psychology program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

His awards are extensive and most recently, include the 2007 American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Carer Contributions to Education and Training of Psychologists. His research and writing interests are primarily in the areas of diagnosis, assessment, and prevention, and the treatment of child problems and disorders.

NVivo 8 Web Demonstration

From initial literature reviews and project design, through analysis and reporting, NVivo is a software program designed to support a wide range of research methods, including grounded theory, phenomenology and discourse analysis. The presentation will overview some of the features of NVivo 8, such as working with multmedia (PDF documents, video and audio files, digital photos); working with charts (create column, pie and bar charts in either two dimensional or three dimensional formats, access to live links to supporting information in your project, export charts to Word documents and PowerPoint slides); research team functions (view codes by team members; compare coding across teams, coding reliability queries, kappa coefficient and percentage agreement); HTML export (create a mini Web site to share coding and findings, share your research with people who don’t have NVivo).