GSE&IS Overview
One of eleven professional schools at UCLA, GSE&IS consists of two academic departments: the Department of Education and the Department of Information Studies. The Graduate School of Education was founded in 1939 and was UCLA's first professional school. The School of Library Service was founded in 1958. The two schools merged in 1994, forming the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. UCLA is one of the only major research universities in the country that combines departments of education and information studies. GSE&IS shares its findings with practicing educators and information professionals through classes, seminars and workshops offered at UCLA and in the community, and through reports, studies, and articles featured in publications nationwide.
Department of Education
The Department of Education's research is geared toward improving learning and teaching in the classroom, the workplace, and the home. The department is internationally known as a leader in the study of student testing and assessment, teacher and continuing education and development - particularly in urban, multi-ethnic environments, early childhood development, and issues of access, equity and quality facing higher education. The Department of Education was ranked fifth overall in the nation according to U.S. News & World Report's 2010 report. In addition to its overall rankings, the Department of Education ranked ninth in educational psychology and third in higher education administration (same rankings as last year) and moved up to seventh (tied with UC Berkeley and the University of Pittsburgh) in education policy.
Department of Information Studies
The Department of Information Studies is internationally recognized for research in areas such as digital archives and libraries, multimedia databases, social implications of the Internet, organization of knowledge and information policy. Researchers focus on all kinds of environments where information is stored and retrieved, including the World Wide Web, museums, corporations, schools, universities, and public libraries. The department educates future librarians, archivists, and information professionals, focusing on system design and end-users of information and their needs and studying the ways people search for and use information. The Department of Information Studies was ranked 14th in U.S. News & World Report's last survey of Library and Information Studies graduate schools and moved up from fifth to fourth in this year's survey in archives and preservation and remained tied for ninth place (with University of Maryland-College Park) in digital librarianship.
Administration
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Megan Franke, Department of Education |
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Faculty |
62 ladder faculty, 31 clinical and adjunct faculty |
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Students |
Undergraduate: 206; Professional programs and credentials: 744; Academic (M.A., Ph.D.): 356 |
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Degrees |
Top-ranked degree programs, including: Education Information Studies |
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Locations on campus |
GSE&IS Building |
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Research and Outreach
It is one of a very small number of premier academic institutions in which research and teaching are inextricably intertwined. In addition to providing high quality programs of graduate and professional education, GSE&IS is home to a number of nationally known research centers, including the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI), the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles (CRP/PDC), the UC All Campus Consortium On Research and Diversity (UC ACCORD), the Center for Information as Evidence (CIE) and the Center for International and Development Education (CIDE) among others. It is home to the highly respected nationwide survey of college freshmen, the CIRP (Cooperative Institutional Research Program), published annually in mid-January, and the UCLA Lab School (formerly the Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School), a university-based pre-kindergarten through sixth grade laboratory school.
The UCLA Lab School is a driving force for improving public education through its educational research, demonstration classrooms, teacher education and training, outreach programs and research-based teaching practices. The school has been on the UCLA campus since 1947 and currently serves 450 students ranging in ages 4-12 and their families. Lab School classrooms serve as laboratories for exploring innovative ideas about teaching, learning, and child development. Results of the School's research is shared through collaborations with educators from other schools, through conferences, workshops and site visits, and in print publications and other media. Through this mix of strategies, UCLA Lab School teaching practices and research outcomes have been widely shared with schools around the globe.