Pennsylvania State University

Training Interdisciplinary Educational Scientists (TIES) Program

The Pennsylvania State University’s Training Interdisciplinary Educational Scientists (TIES) program will prepare educational scientists with expertise in the development and evaluation of interventions to promote literacy and social/emotional competence in children and youth. The TIES program will involve faculty from 10 departments across three participating colleges (Education, Health and Human Development, and Liberal Arts). Six interdisciplinary research centers will also support the activities of the TIES program including: the Children, Youth, and Families Consortium; the Center for Human Development and Family Research in Diverse Contexts; the Child Study Center; the Methodology Center; the Prevention Research Center; and the Center for Educational and Applied Developmental Sciences. TIES fellows will be involved in coursework, seminars, summer institutes, and research apprenticeships that will expose them to cutting-edge work in literacy and social and emotional learning and that will underscore the developmental interplay between these two critical domains of school adjustment. The program’s core research training will emphasize cluster randomized trials and associated quantitative methods, management of the research process, grant writing, and applied research experiences.