Sponsored by:
- National Council for the Social Studies
- NCSS Research Community
Frequency:
Award:
- Commemorative Gift
- Annual Conference session for research presentation
- Publicity
Purpose:
The Jean Dresden Grambs Distinguished Career Research Award recognizes professionals who have made extensive contributions to knowledge concerning significant areas of social studies education through meritorious research.
Types of Research Eligible:
The use of the term research in reference to this award shall be broadly construed to mean any and all forms of recognized formal research - methodologies, paradigms. and perspectives. Eligible research is that which has:
- added significantly to the understanding of the status, impact, characteristics, and activities of social studies education or social education , including several separate and distinct contributions related to curriculum, instruction, evaluation, and the learning and teaching of and in the social studies;
- stimulated a sense of responsibility among and fostered other professionals to engage in additional research efforts;
- added significantly to the information bases to those working in the social studies/social education field as evidenced by citations of their work within the social studies literature; and
- been used by professionals as the basis for significant decisions, rationales, and practices related to one or more areas of social studies curriculum instruction, evaluation, and teaching or learning.
Criteria
A person is eligible for consideration and receipt of this award when the following conditions have been met:
1.Published documentation of research endeavors and findings exist covering a span of approximately ten or more years
2. Published documentation that research reveals a focus or direction in a significant segment of the research effort, without intending that the individual has spent the entire time on a single or a limited range or research topics;
3. **documentation exists that cites in positive ways the person’s research contributions, broadly defined;
4. letters of support on behalf of the researcher are received by not less than five recognized researchers in the field of social studies/social science education;
5. the person does not necessarily have to be currently involved in active research and publications in the social studies/social education areas or fields or a current member NCSS.
Nomination Requirements:
- See Attachment Below
- Letter of nomination;
- Curriculum vitae of nominee;
- Evidence via actual public documents of the candidate’s research activities over a period of approximately ten or more years;
- Evidence via letters which clearly testify to the significance of the person’s long time research contributions to social education, broadly defined;
- Evidence via supporting documentation which testifies to the quality of the research conceptualization, methodology, procedures, data analysis, and interpretations and conclusions (broadly defined) used in the research work being considered;
- Evidence via oral or written statements that the person’s research contributed to fostering investigations by others on the same or related area or was used by others in their own research;
- Evidence of the recognition by colleagues as a long time leader engaging in and advancing research in the social studies/social education (broadly defined) through her/her involvement in the profession or through professional publications.
- Publicity Outreach. Please provide the name, contact name, title, and e-mail for:
• Major local/community newspaper (up to 2)
• District Superintendent
• Direct supervisor
- Information Release Statement (on cover page)
Submission Requirements:
- Five Sets of all nomination materials listed above.
- Each set of nomination materials should be bound and contain subject dividers that identify materials by the nomination requirement headings listed above.
Nomination materials that are incomplete or that do not meet the established criteria will not be considered. No self nominations.
DEADLINE EXTENDED—POSTMARKED BY: June 15, 2010
All Subcommittee Award Selection Decisions Are Final!
For more information on NCSS Awards and Grants, contact Prema Cordeiro, Program Manager at excellence@ncss.org or 301-588-1800, ext. 106
Send to:
Jean Dresden Grambs Distinguished Career Research in Social Studies Award
National Council for the Social Studies
8555 Sixteenth Street, Suite 500
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
