Research Grants

How do negative family dynamics influence children’s biological processes and their subsequent susceptibility to upper respiratory infections (URI)?

Martinez and Borko will test the reliability and validity of a measure of “Quality Assessment” in middle school science that combines use of classroom artifacts and teacher and student surveys.

California and several counties in Ohio are currently undergoing a large, federally funded trial investigating an attempt to implement an evidence-based, statewide foster care program (Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care, or MTFC) with the help of Community Development Teams (CDT).

Is it possible to identify and accurately measure the instructional practices of middle school English/language arts classrooms that predict classroom effects on student achievement?

The Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) is a promising observational instrument that measures student-teacher classroom interactions in elementary school classrooms.

Will offering increased financial aid to low-income students affect educational outcomes, such as college performance and completion? How will it impact these students’ family and peer relationships?

In order to plan group-level intervention studies, such as school- or classroom-based interventions, researchers must understand the proportion of the variation in a key outcome (such as a state test) that occurs within a school or classroom versus the variation ...

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?