Using Research to Improve Student and School Outcomes by Improving Programs and Practices, Grades K-12

Welcome

The Johns Hopkins University Interdisciplinary Predoctoral Training Program is funded by the Institute for Education Sciences (IES).  Its goal is to ensure that the next generation of education researchers graduating from The Johns Hopkins University has the capacity to design, implement, and evaluate research of the highest caliber aimed at identifying educational practices that produce positive outcomes for students or examining factors related to variations in the outcomes achieved by educational interventions and practices. Trainees receive training in a core discipline (education, sociology, or mental health) and integrate research perspectives and techniques from the other disciplines, working toward research that is comprehensive and methodologically sophisticated.  Access to the state-of-the-art research strategies being developed and implemented by the affiliated academic departments and the Center for Social Organization of Schools (CSOS), Hopkins’ educational research and development center, is an integral component of the Training Program.

In addition to coursework in a home department, fellows apply their research skills and are exposed to additional perspectives through multidisciplinary seminars, a set of rigorous methodology course requirements specific to the Training Program, an annual Summer Research Institute, and intense research involvement.

The Training Program is a partnership of five academic departments and CSOS.  Each of the doctoral programs is strong in its own right, with rigorous methods requirements. In the Department of Sociology, training is from a sociology of education disciplinary perspective; in the Department of Mental Health, training is from a developmental science/prevention science disciplinary perspective; and in the School of Education, training is from an education practice perspective. 

We hope you take the time to explore this website and to learn more about this exciting training program and the rich array of educational research opportunities available to Trainees.

Sincerely,

Karl Alexander

Program Director

PROGRAM PARTNERS

To learn more about the Training Grant Partnership, please visit the home pages of the Training Program partners: 

The Department of Sociology

Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

 

The department was founded by the eminent educational sociologist James S. Coleman and continues in the research tradition he established of context sensitive studies of educational processes using advanced statistical methods.

The Department of Mental Health

Bloomberg School of Public Health

 

The department houses the Center for Prevention and Early Intervention focused on classroom interventions using randomized trials and whose graduate program provides state of the art instruction in both randomized controlled trials methods and the statistical analysis of non-experimental data.

School of Education

The University's School of Education offers Doctor of Education programs which provide content expertise on educational practice, placement opportunities for trainees to experience life in schools and research opportunities through its research centers.  Three departments in the School of Education host trainees: Teacher Development and Leadership, Special Education and Interdisciplinary Studies in Education.

The Center for Social Organization of Schools

Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

The Center is an education research and development center with more than 40 years experience with the design and implementation of educational innovations.