2011

How do staff at youth programs acquire and use research to inform their program designs and practices?

Support for the Collaborative to Enhance Diversity in Science (CEDS) workshop of organizational leaders involved in developing scientists from under-represented groups.

What contexts support effective teaching in New York City schools?

What happens to findings from studies funded by the federal Institute of Education Sciences (IES)?

How do youth’s families, schools, neighborhoods, recreational spaces, and peers impact their engagement in risky behavior and their health? Can new technologies help us measure what matters for young people in those settings?

Lieber will provide consultation services to build grantee capacity in conducting mixed-methods research. Lieber and his team will also organize the Foundation’s mixed-methods workshop.

Do classrooms that support students’ feelings of autonomy improve student motivation, attitudes, and behaviors?

Support documentation on social programs and the role of evaluation research in advocating, funding, developing, and implementing them.

This grant will increase understanding of districts’ concerns about using classroom observation measures in teacher evaluation systems.

The goal of this project is to develop a conceptual framework that assists in the identification and measurement of factors that contribute to the success of scale-up efforts.