University of Chicago Archives - William T. Grant Foundation

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Shanette Porter

Shanette Porter is a co-PI on 1 grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

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Micere Keels

Micere Keels is a PI on 3 grants to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

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Anjali Adukia

Anjali Adukia is a PI on 1 grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

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Julia Henly

Julia Henly is a PI on 1 grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

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Deborah Gorman-Smith is a PI on 3 grants to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, a co-PI on 2 grants to Educational Testing Service, and a co-PI on 1 grant to Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy.

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Kelly Hallberg

Kelly Hallberg is a co-PI on 1 grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

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Jens Ludwig

Jens Ludwig is a PI on 2 grants and a co-PI on 1 grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

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Guanglei Hong

Guanglei Hong is a PI on 1 grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago and is mentioned in 1 blog post.

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Harold Pollack

Harold Pollack is a co-PI on 1 grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

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Mark Courtney

Mark Courtney is a PI on 4 grants to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

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Jeanne Century

Jeanne Century is a PI on 1 grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

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Stephen Raudenbush

Stephen Raudenbush is a PI on 5 grants to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago and is an author on 1 tool.

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Eric Hedberg

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Camille Farrington

Camille Farrington is a co-PI on 1 grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

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Melissa Roderick

Melissa Roderick is a PI on 2 grants to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

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Amy Claessens

Amy Claessens is a co-PI on 1 grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

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Paul Goren

Paul Goren is a PI on 1 grant to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

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Constance Yowell

Constance Yowell is a PI on 1 grant to University of Chicago.

Articles & More

News

• May 1, 2020

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars Program

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars awards. Launched in 1982, the Scholars Program supports the professional development of promising researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences who have received their terminal degrees within ...

Boston University School of Public Health

Brown University

Regents of the University of California, Berkeley

University of Chicago

and University of Texas at Austin

Five Early-Career Researchers Selected for the 2020 William T. Grant Scholars Program

Blog Post

William T. Grant Scholar Guanglei Hong on the Benefits of Early Instruction for English Language Learners

Guanglei Hong is using advanced statistics to understand the nature of educational settings and the ways that public policies and teachers’ practices affect the academic growth of immigrant-origin students whose ...

Foundation Staff

William T. Grant Scholar Guanglei Hong on the Benefits of Early Instruction for English Language Learners

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It’s No Longer All about the Mean: Using Multi-site Trials to Learn About and From Impact Variation

Randomized trials are rapidly becoming standard practice for evaluation research and applied social science. Hundreds, if not thousands of such trials have been conducted and many more are on the ...

Stephen Raudenbush

and Howard Bloom

It’s No Longer All about the Mean: Using Multi-site Trials to Learn About and From Impact Variation

Blog Post

Confidence Bounds and Power for the Reliability of Observational Measures on the Quality of a Social Setting

Abstract Social scientists are frequently interested in assessing the qualities of social settings such as classrooms, schools, neighborhoods, or day care centers. The most common procedure requires observers to rate ...

Yongyun Shin

and Stephen Raudenbush

Confidence Bounds and Power for the Reliability of Observational Measures on the Quality of a Social Setting

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Studying the Reliability of Group-Level Measures with Implications for Statistical Power: A Six-Step Paradigm

Many youth development programs aim to improve youth outcomes by raising the quality of social interactions occurring in groups such as classrooms, athletic teams, therapy groups, after-school programs, or recreation ...

and Fen Lin

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Partnership and the Politics of Care: Advocates’ Role in Passing and Implementing California’s Law to Extend Foster Care

“This report traces the history of [California’s Fostering Connections to Success Act] from when it was first introduced in the California State Assembly, through its passage and signing, and ...

Mark Courtney

and Jennifer Mosley

Partnership and the Politics of Care: Advocates’ Role in Passing and Implementing California’s Law to Extend Foster Care

Tools

Optimal Design with Empirical Information (OD+)

This software includes a series of empirical estimates of plausible parameter values for determining the minimum effect size that can be detected by a given number, size, and treatment/group mix of randomized groups.

Stephen Raudenbush

Howard Bloom

Jessaca Spybrook

and Andres Martinez