INTERNATIONAL IMPACT TURKEY EGYPT CHINA PAKISTAN KOREA ETHIOPIA THAILAND
FLAVIA RAMOS-MATTOUSSI
Last year, Ramos traveled to Liberia, Angola and Mozambique to conduct Monitoring and Evaluation of Literacy Programs under USAID’s Bureau for Africa. She is currently working on USAID- and UNICEFfunded education projects in Ethiopia, Indonesia and Tuvalu in collaboration with COE faculty. The Center for International Studies in Educational Research and Development at the Learning Systems Institute, a partner with the Research Triangle Institute, is providing technical assistance to two fiveyear projects. Ramos is the principal investigator on the Ethiopia-READ and on the UNICEF-funded Early Grade Literacy Program in Tuvalu, where she went this year with Marion Fesmire; and co-PI (with Jeff Milligan) on PRIORITAS in Indonesia. Several other College of Education faculty are involved with the Ethiopia READ project:
• Jeffrey Ayala Milligan, Ph.D. • Young-Suk Kim, Ed.D. • Marion Fesmire, Ed.D. • Phyllis Swann Underwood, Ph.D. • Jeanne Wanzek, Ph.D.
• Elisa (Lisa) Scherff, Ph.D. • Peter Easton, Ph.D. • Rebecca Galeano, Ph.D. • Erica Pereira Amorim
SRI LANKA
CAMBODIA MALAYSIA
PHILIPPINES
SINGAPORE INDONESIA TUVALU
JEFFREY MILLIGAN
Milligan is the director of the Center for International Studies in Education Research and Development at the Learning Systems Institute and a professor of sociocultural/international development education studies in ELPS. He has more than a decade of experience in conducting educational research and development in the Philippines, principally in Mindanao. He was also the principal FSU investigator on the USAID-funded Decentralized Basic Education 2 in Indonesia (2006-2012) and a two-time Fulbright Fellow (Malaysia 2006, Philippines 1999). He co-directs, with Peter Easton, the Peace Corps Master’s International Program at the COE.
ALYSIA ROEHRIG
FENGFENG KE
Ke is collaborating with researchers in Korea in conducting research on designing computer agents and virtual reality for preservice teacher training. Ke is also hosting international visiting scholars from China and Korea.
Roehrig’s research focuses on teacher quality, teacher professional development and education fostering students’ literacy learning. Since 2011, she has hosted three international visiting scholars: Zeynep Akdag (from Turkey), Satilmis Tekindal (from Turkey) and Amal Zayed (from Egypt). Currently, Roehrig and Tekindal are developing a survey (translated into both English and Turkish) to assess teachers’ and pre-service teachers’ beliefs about the efficacy of diverse classroom management practices.
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