DATA MANAGEMENT
(Note: correct day and date is Monday, March 28 )
WHEN: Monday, March 28 from Noon-1 pm
LOCATION: The Curry Library Innovation Commons,
3rd floor Ruffner Hall
PRESENTATION BY: Sherry Lake, UVa Library, Scientific Data Consultant
WHAT: Good data management is the foundation for good research. Today, more and more funding agencies and publishers are requiring researchers to share their data. Having a data management plan fulfills agency requirements and makes your data easier to share. Sherry will go over the data management plan template UVa has designed and discuss what this new requirement means for you.  A question and answer segment will follow.

Click here to register for the Data Management presentation. Refreshments will be provided.

PLAGIARISM
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) recently developed an online tutorial, Principles of Paraphrasing: How to Avoid Inadvertent Plagiarism (http://isites.harvard.edu/paraphrasing)

The tutorial addresses paraphrasing in three modules: Defining paraphrasing; Rules for quoting, summarizing, and paraphrasing; and Tips and strategies for successful paraphrasing.

Included in the tutorial is a self-check worksheet that gives tutorial users an opportunity to paraphrase texts by HGSE faculty. It also provides an answer key that allows users to compare their paraphrases to the suggested ones.

The tutorial creators are looking for feedback and have provided a polling tool at the end of the tutorial. Check it out!

The American Psychological Association (APA) now has a mobile app for iPhones and iPads that lets users browse the contents of the latest issues of more than 70 journals published by APA. The journal titles display as an alphabetical list. Users can select a title, scan table of contents of the journal, and access the abstract of the journal article. UVa affiliates using these devices on Grounds via the UVa wireless network can also access the full text articles and read them.

There are two versions of the app – the iPhone version is called APA Journals and the iPad version is called APA Journals for iPad. Both are available free of charge through Apple's App Store.

NCES DATA TOOLS
The Elementary/Secondary Information System (ELSi) is an NCES web application that allows users to quickly view public and private school data and create custom tables and charts using data from the Common Core of Data (CCD) and Private School Survey (PSS).

ELSi utilizes variables that are frequently requested by users for producing tables and includes three tools:

• quickFacts allows users to quickly view single data elements for a state, district or school
• expressTables allows users to view data tables at the state, county, district, and school levels that have been frequently requested
• tableGenerator allows users to create custom tables for a state, district, or school

RESEARCH AGENDA
Graduate students often inquire about developing a research agenda. This article by Justin Reedy and Madhavi Murty, graduate students at the University of Washington, Seattle, provides a definition for a research agenda as well as why and how a graduate student can go about creating one.

LEARN QUAL SOFTWARE
RESCHEDULED FOR: Thursday Mar 17, 2 -3 pm
LOCATION: The Curry Library Innovation Commons,
3rd floor Ruffner Hall
PRESENTATION BY: Stacy Penna from NVIVO
WHAT: Learn to use NVIVO qualitative software. Version 9 enhances the collaboration of research teams
• Simultaneously work on the same project with Team Members
• Track Research Teams work in project
• Analyze more data
• Superior Security – control access to project
HOSTED BY: Nancy Kechner, the CLIC's Computing Consultant

RECEPTION
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WHAT: You are cordially invited to an open house for the new Asian Studies Room in Alderman Library. 
WHEN: Friday, March 18 from 4-6 pm 
WHERE: 2nd floor,  Alderman Library ( East stairs)
GOOD TO KNOW: Light refreshments will be served and items from the Asian study collection will be on display.  No RSVP needed.

Come to a reception celebrating the opening of the Asian Studies Room, which provides a reading room and home for the University Library’s current and future Asian and Buddhist studies collections. The room contains Asian Studies reference material and current periodicals.   The offices of the Library’s subject specialists for Tibetan, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and South Asian Studies are located adjacent to the room.   In addition to supporting the Asian Studies programs at the university, the room offers students a beautiful new quiet study space adjacent to the popular McGregor Room.

NAEP REPORT CARD
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has released the 2009 Science results for 17 urban districts and for large cities nationally in The Nation’s Report Card: Science 2009 Trail Urban District Assessment (TUDA). The 2009 NAEP Science TUDA assessed representative samples of between 900 and 2,200 fourth- and eighth-grade public school students in each of the 17 participating urban districts.

To view the full report please visit
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2011452

SPECIAL REPORT
Monitoring Progress: Response to Intervention's Promise and Pitfalls, is an Education Week special report examining the many forms RTI is now taking, its research base, its influence on the educational marketplace, and the federal regulations that both fuel and restrict its growth.

You may view the report online or if you are registered with Education Week (free), you may download the entire report. You can also view archived reports here.

NEWSLETTER
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