Being a Researcher at Troy

S. Kathleen Krach, Ph.D., NCSPkkrach@troy.edu

Publish and Flourish• Write every day

– (15-30 minutes)– Record your time

• Make writing sacred.– Add it to your calendar

• Write from the first day of the study.– Organize your thoughts– Post your Hypotheses

• Solicit feedback from the right people.– Use feedback!

• Send it out!

Tara Gray

THE FOLLOWING SLIDES WERE PROVIDED BY THE INTERNET

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IRB

http://trojan.troy.edu/institutionalreview/

Research and Teaching

Low Hanging Fruit

Mentorship and Teams

Work Within a Budget

http://trojan.troy.edu/employees/facultydevelopment/

Finding a Population at Troy

Getting the Literature You Need

http://trojan.troy.edu/library/

Value All Feedback

Research What You Love

Contact Me / Partnerships

S. Kathleen Krach

Email:kkrach@troy.edu

Address:136 Catoma StreetMontgomery, AL 36106334-241-9598 (phone)

Troy Website:http://spectrum.troy.edu/kkrach

Studies in Progress Open For Collaboration

• Individual Administration of Intelligence Tests: Essential Condition or Old Habit– Data collection completed. Manuscript in preparation.

• Use of Reliability Data in Score Interpretation: or, Why to Use the Technical Data When Making Social/ Emotional Interpretations– Data collected. Manuscript in preparation.

• Concurrent validity of ISAS to the IPIP Personal Attribute Survey IRB has been approved. – IRB Approved. Database in Beta Testing

• Social identities within a virtual environment: The role of selective attention and self-regulation on group affiliation.– IRB has been approved. Database in Beta Testing.

• Systematic, Direct Observation and Virtual Environments: Objective, Meaningful Data from Games. – Data Collected. Manuscript in preparation.

• Can a Computer Teach Social Skills? Investigating the efficacy of The Social Express software program. – $50,000.00 Materials Grant Approved.

• Building Positive Secondary School Relationships for Latino Success. Grant funding received.– Data collection completed. Manuscript in preparation.