[EDLING:878] Fwd: [Aaal-l] TOEFL COE Research Program Grant

[Tamara Warhol]

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TOEFL COE Research Program -  2006 Call for Proposals

 

DO NOT REPLY TO THE LIST

 

Preliminary applications described below should be submitted via e-mail to 
Toeflresearchcoordination at ets.org by August 25, 2005.

 

Purpose - TOEFL Committee of Examiners (COE) research grants are intended to 
support research on topics related to TOEFL as identified by the Committee of 
Examiners and Educational Testing Service.

 

Award Value - Awards will be up to $75,000 USD, inclusive of institutional 
overhead.

 

Research Topics  - The TOEFL COE has identified the following topics for 
research:

 

1.      The effect of rater background characteristics on the rating of TOEFL 
iBT speech samples.

2.      Effective teaching practices using new TOEFL iBT-related tasks in 
teaching and learning.

3.      Evaluation of e-rater software for automated scoring of TOEFL iBT 
writing samples using methods other than agreement with human raters.

4.      A framework for assessing English for academic purposes for lower- 
intermediate English language students.

 

Eligibility and Conditions - Applications are invited from individuals at not-
for-profit organizations and institutions with expertise in English Language 
Learning and Assessment research. Proposals from unaffiliated individuals or 
for-profit organizations are not eligible.

 

Each awardee will be required to submit interim and final reports and to 
appropriately acknowledge the support of the TOEFL program when disseminating 
the results of his or her work

 

Application Process 

 

Interested applicants are required to submit an application as described 
below. Invitations to submit a full proposal will be issued to selected 
applicants based on the quality and cost effectiveness of the initial 
application.

 

Application must include 

 

1. Cover page: 

      Title of proposed study
      Your name and contact information including address, e-mail, telephone
      Date of submission


 

2. A 500-600 word précis describing the topic you plan to address, a brief 
rationale, a short statement about the research questions and design, a time 
line, and an estimate of the cost.  The cost estimate should include 
institutional overhead.

 

3. A curriculum vitae and the names of two references.

 

Evaluation Criteria

 

Invitations to submit a full proposal will be issued to selected applicants 
based on the quality of the précis. Précis will be evaluated in terms of the 
relevance to the identified topics, the feasibility of the proposed research, 
the qualifications of project staff, organizational capacity to conduct the 
research, and cost effectiveness. 

 

Schedule 

 

August 25, 2005 - Deadline for submission of application and précis.

 

September 15, 2005 – Response to précis.

 

November 1, 2005 – Deadline for submission of full proposal.

 

December 21, 2005 – Response to proposal.

 

 

 

 

 


		
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-- 
Tamara Warhol
PhD Student
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 
warholt at dolphin.upenn.edu
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