UK College of Education Staff

Institute for Educational Research Institute for Educational Research

Skip Kifer is the director of IER. Dr. "Skip" Kifer (vita) joined the faculty in 1972, coming to Lexington from the University of Chicago and the Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistical Analysis (MESA) specialization. At Chicago he was a Resource Colleague with a Ford Foundation Teacher Training Program, a member of the College Administration staff, and a statistical consultant to the Department of Education. While associated with the University of Kentucky, was a Spencer Foundation Fellow at the University of Stockholm and a visiting professor at both SUNY Buffalo and UCLA and an AERA Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Education Statistics.

"Skip" taught courses in the quantitative sequence and an introductory evaluation course. His research interests are testing and evaluation broadly construed. He has written test reviews, chapters on attitude measurement and construction of attitude measures, and played a major role in designing, implementing, and reporting the results of the Second International Mathematics Study. He was also one of five persons who planned the Commonwealth's assessment system and serves both on its national technical committee and a technical committee that oversees international evaluation studies.

 

photoFaith Cordray, College Grants Officer, is assigned by the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration (OSPA) to the College of Education. She works with the faculty on the various aspects of grant proposal development. She hails from Atlanta, Georgia where she was a contracts officer at the Georgia Institute of Technology and more recently worked with the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute. Ms. Cordray has managed grants for NIH, NSF, and most other federal agencies and NGO's. Faith is an alumnus of the University of Georgia, with a B.S.Ed in Secondary English Education.
Jaime GuerreroJaime Guerrero, Research Assistant, is a third year Ph.D. student in the College of Education's Counseling Psychology Program at the University of Kentucky. He received his Master of Arts Degree in Counseling Psychology at the University of Denver in 1999 and his Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Santa Clara University in 1997.
Jaime is available for these tasks:
  • Conducting literature searches for grant proposals and scholarly manuscripts of any type. I’ve asked him to place grant requests as his first priority because of the limited time available to write proposals. After that, requests will be filled on a first-come-first serve basis. A template for your specifying your requests is attached.
  • Checking reference citations in your grant proposals and manuscripts.
  • Locating sources, particularly difficult to find publications — he enjoys the challenge.
photoTammy Medaris, Administrative Support Assistant, has been with the university since 2003 and joined the IER staff in January, 2009. She works closely with Principal Investigators (PI’s) in providing post-award grant and contract management services including project planning, budgeting and account administration. She provides liaison with College Contracts and Grants Office, OSP and UKRF to ensure that projects administered by IER are in compliance with pertinent agency and University rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
 

 

 

 

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