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The College of Education of Florida International University
The
Lorraine R. Gay Award for Excellence in Research and
Scholarship
LR Gay Awards
Committee Chair: Benjamin
Baez, PhD
The LR Gay
awards are determined
based upon papers submitted for presentation at the College
of Education Annual Research Conference. Award decisions are
determined by the judgment of the faculty members serving as
the Research Award sub-Committee. Members of this
sub-committee are to be selected by the entire Steering
Committee and serve three-year terms
LR Gay Award
Recipients since 2002
2007
Liana
Casbarro and Jemlys Jäger,
The
mistranslation of the ABCs: An American AIDS education
campaign in Botswana
2006
Suzanne J. Gallagher,
A Phenomenological Study of
Learning Processes at Work; Confirming, Extending, and
Challenging Holistic Learning Theory
2005
Victoria A. Giordano, A Professional Development Model to
Promote Internet Integration into P-12 Teaching Practices
2004
Kandell Malocsay, The Effects of Cultural Distance on
Student Socialization and Departure Decisions
2003
Sarah M. Nielsen, High Stakes and No Takers: The
Impact of Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT)
Writing on Students' and Teachers' Perceptions of Writing
2002
Loraine Wasserman, The effects of a family-based
educational intervention on the prevention of lead poisoning
in children
In
memory of Lorraine R. Gay
Respected scholar and teacher;
Valued
colleague and treasured friend and
Founding
member of the research faculty of the College
The
purpose of the award is to acknowledge, in the name of L. R.
Gay, outstanding research scholarship on the part of
students and their supporting faculty in the College of
Education of FIU.
L. R.
(Lorrie) Gay, the founding professor of educational research
for the FIU College of Education, was dedicated to students,
to the rigorous pursuit of educational excellence and to
research scholarship. She chaired the first doctoral
dissertation awarded in the College of Education. She
published textbooks in educational research, tests and
measurement, and educational psychology. They were published
as L.R. rather than Lorrie because the publisher felt a
female author would not be as accepted as a male, so
initials were used. The educational research text
Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis &
Application
became the
best-selling book of its kind and her publisher estimates
that 1 out of every 2 students in the field has used this
text.
The
recipients of this award walk in the shadow of someone who
cared for every student, and fought to make our course in
educational research the best of its kind because she knew
this was the way to best serve students. If you have taken
the course you know what it requires and as you realize the
skills you have attained through her efforts, you appreciate
her efforts to this day, years after her passing.
It is anticipated that
one award will be presented annually to the student and
faculty member whose research best exemplifies Lorrie’s high
standards. In the case of multiple authors for the
same paper, multiple awards will be bestowed.
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