• Date and time: Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 1:30pm - 5pm

  Please click here to download the presentation slide of this seminar

• Venue: IRED office, 4 Ba Huyen Thanh Quan Street, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City

• Speaker: Dr. Kimberly Goyette, Director of the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture, and Society at Temple University (U.S.A)

• Seminar schedule: 1:30pm-2:00pm: Welcome and Networking; 2:00pm-4:00pm: Professor Kimberly Goytte’s presentation; 4:00pm-5:00pm: Q&A; 5:00pm: Conclusion of the seminar

• Target participants: Vietnamese university professors or lecturers at public and private institutions, researchers at public and non-profit organizations, master and doctoral students and professionals who seek ways to have their research articles approved and successfully published in international peer-reviewed journals.

• Organizer: The Institute for Research on Educational Development (IRED)

• Language: English-Vietnamese

• Participation fee: Free of charge

Why this seminar?

According to many scholars and academia, research, particularly in social sciences, is still under-developed in both quality and quantity in Vietnam. Customarily, research findings receive credence and wide acceptance after being published in a peer-reviewed international journal. However, recent statistics has indicated that Vietnam’s peer-reviewed international publications remain scarce. Since quality research informs best practices and policies, and good research broadens knowledge, improving research performance and capacity of Vietnamese educational researchers has become an increasingly pressing issue. With the goal of enhancing faculty and researchers’ capabilities to publish their works successfully, this seminar will present the insights and experience of Dr. Kimberly Goyette, an experienced, widely-published researcher credited with many research articles appearing in a large number of peer-reviewed international journals.

What you will learn from the seminar

• Discussion on many parts of the research paper: abstract, introduction, literature review, methods, results and discussion

• Tips to engage readers in each part

• How to write clear and answerable research questions

• Literature review and how to use past literature in such a way as to set up one's own research question

• What is important to be included in a methods section?

• How to frame the results around the main question and how to craft a compelling conclusion

• Publication process, including choosing where to submit, submission guidelines, peer review, revisions, and memo to address those revisions.

About Dr. Kimberly Goyette

Kimberly Goyette became director of the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture, and Society at Temple University in 2011, after being acting director the previous year. Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Temple University. Her areas of specialization include education, race and ethnicity, stratification, immigration, and demography.  Her recent work, published in Social Science Research and Social Problems, has focused on whether social background and occupational expectations account for rising college expectations over time, and how people's perceptions of their local schools vary by their changing racial composition.  Other work in Comparative Education Review looks at how attendance at non-public universities in Vietnam varies by socioeconomic and other family characteristics.  A recent book, titled Education and Immigration, was published in 2013 from Policy Press.  Goyette has served as a reviewer for numerous sociology and education journals. She is on the editorial board of Sociology of Education, and is on the council for the Sociology of Education section of the American Sociological Association.