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What role do the social climates of classrooms and non-instructional settings (e.g., lunchrooms, playgrounds, and hallways) play in predicting youth risk behaviors and outcomes?

The team that developed CLASS will use this grant to develop easy-to-administer tools that assess teacher-student interactions using student and informant (principal/supervisor) surveys.

How do district and school staff acquire, interpret, and use research evidence to reform schools designated as in need of “corrective action” by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)?

Why do adolescents choose particular friends?

Hill and her research team have been developing a video observation protocol that assesses the teaching of mathematics, and they will use this grant to make it more user-friendly, reliable, and...

The investigators are engaged in a large workplace intervention study designed to promote employees’ experiences of control over work time in the context of supervisor support. Parents' and youth's...

How to Successfully Conduct a Propensity Score Analysis.

Most mental health disorders begin before youth are in their late teens and early 20s, and social, economic, and academic pressures combined with the transition to college may exacerbate these...

Does the quality of the home, school, and community settings of rural adolescents affect subsequent levels of mental health and physiological stress?

The award extends work on the reliability of settings based measurement to the family setting, using daily diary measures.

What are the challenges of building an out-of-school-time system for high school youth?

After-school programs are designed to provide safe venues for academic enhancement, recreation, and positive youth development. They can be a place in children’s communities that can foster...

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...

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...

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