About the COERC
The College of Education Research Center (COERC), began its operation in the fall of 2014, and is a revitalization of the former Faculty Research Center, established in the summer of 2004. The mission of the COERC is to facilitate faculty productivity in research activities that contribute to the goals of the College of Education at Northern Arizona University and to the many professional disciplines comprising the college.
Values and guiding principles Accordion Closed
- We believe that scholarship activities form the central professional responsibility that distinguishes university faculty from other professions.
- We value the importance of faculty self-efficacy and motivation to be active and self-directed researchers.
- We believe that faculty research productivity is developmental and dynamic with faculty members continually constructing their knowledge and skills in scholarship throughout their careers.
- We value both independent and collaborative research.
- We believe it is valuable for faculty research to be evidence-based, using the best practices endorsed by their professional disciplines.
- We believe it is important for faculty research to be evidence-based, using the best practices endorsed by their professional disciplines.
- We believe that faculty commitments to goal-focused research agendas can lead to important contributions to their professional disciplines and the college.
- We believe that using scholarship information from one’s professional discipline can enhance teaching effectiveness.
Goals and objectives Accordion Closed
- Support faculty research by providing training and resources in research methods and research tools to increase faculty member’s knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy in being motivated and self-directed researchers.
- Conduct and coordinate research seminars, workshops, brown-bags, and sabbatical presentations for COE faculty (and students).
- Provide research resources (such as SPSS tutorials and IRB information) on the COERC website for COE faculty (and students).
- Increase COE’s national reputation in the area of scholarship by using the COERC website to share and highlight faculty research (publications, presentation, and sabbaticals).
- Provide information on professional conferences for COE faculty (and students).
- Provide information on research opportunities for COE faculty (and students).
Services Accordion Closed
The COERC currently offers support with basic literature searches and research consultation, which includes methodological planning and design prior to data collection. Please use the Service Request Form link to request services.
IRB – Institutional Review Board Accordion Closed
Please note: The COERC is NOT the Institutional Review Board.
NAU Institutional Review Board
The NAU Institutional Review Board (IRB) for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research oversees all research conducted by faculty, staff, and students that involves living human beings as participants in a study.
Visit the NAU IRB Homepage for details on Human Subjects Research.
To apply for IRB review, go to IRBNet and register as a New User.
Take the required IRB training. The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). If you have not completed this training within the past three (3) years, take it BEFORE submitting you IRB application.
COERC’s unifying model Accordion Closed
Created by Drs. Gypsy Denzine, Daniel Kain, and William F. Martin (2006), the COERC observes their unifying social-cognitive model of faculty members’ motivation and performance in the area of research.
