Research Grants

Information on instructional content, taken from teacher logs and ratings of teacher assignment quality, can be used separately to predict differences in student achievement.

Can researchers create cost-effective measures to assess how teacher practices are related to student norms regarding academics, or which students are seen by their peers as leaders?

How does parental criminality influence child outcomes? How do attitudes, communications, and everyday parenting practices foster continuities or influence positive changes in youth?

Can an organizational intervention alter the culture and climate of mental health service programs for youth and result in improvements in staff attitudes, services delivered, and outcomes for recipients?

How does parental provision of structure impact the development of 12- to 14-year-old youth’s competence, achievement, and adjustment among European-American and Latino families?

How do mentoring groups foster improved one-on-one mentoring relationships and youth outcomes?

This project is intended to provide empirical information needed to design adequately powered studies.

How can we improve the psychometric properties of two classroom-based observation instruments used to gather information about effective teaching?

This award builds on an NIH-funded cluster-randomized trial to test whether providing implementation support through community development teams impacts a county’s decision to adopt the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care, an evidence-based child welfare program. With this award, Palinkas will...

This project supports an experimental trial of Family Transition Services (FTS) to deliver evidence-based prevention programs to families undergoing divorce.