Adolescent Literacy Predoctoral Fellowship
DESCRIPTION
The Adolescent Literacy Predoctoral Fellowship program supports doctoral research aimed at improving literacy outcomes for middle and secondary school students. Fellows will also participate in ongoing training activities to interact with and learn from leading researchers in the field of adolescent literacy and in activities that promote building a community of scholars.
FELLOWSHIP AWARDS
- Fellows receive a stipend of $25,000, to be disbursed over a period of up to two years, to support finalizing the dissertation proposal and collecting data.
- Fellows participate in ongoing training activities to interact with and learn from leading researchers in the field of adolescent literacy and in activities that promote building a community of emerging scholars.
- Twenty fellows are accepted for the two-year fellowships.
QUALIFICATIONS AND GUIDELINES
The Adolescent Literacy Predoctoral Fellowship Program is open to all eligible applicants regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation.
Applicants should meet the following eligibility requirements:
- be a candidate for the doctoral degree at a graduate school within the United States;
- have demonstrated interest in and acquired knowledge of adolescent literacy through coursework, participation in research, teaching, and/or other substantive undertakings; relevant coursework includes, for example, courses in literacy development, literacy disorders, secondary school literacy, adolescent literature, etc.;
- have demonstrated knowledge of and sensitivity to the characteristics of the populations and the life circumstances of the segments of the adolescent population where the problem of literacy development is most prevalent; and,
- have been prepared or are being prepared through coursework and training to conduct research focusing on educational effectiveness, utilizing rigorous research methods that are appropriate to the conceptual issues being investigated, including experimental and quasi-experimental designs, longitudinal analyses, secondary analyses of large datasets, and descriptive analyses.
Applications are not being accepted at this time.
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