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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...

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...

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

Can teaching conflict resolution help reduce the development of unproductive ways of dealing with conflict and result in fewer negative youth outcomes?

Dr. Alexander has reached an agreement with Harvard's Murray Research Center to store all Beginning School Study (BSS) survey and school record data for future dissemination to the research community.

Using secondary data from two sources, this study aims to enrich our understanding of the social contexts of immigrant adaptation in new receiving communities in North Carolina.

Is it possible to identify and measure the welfare agency staff practices and service activities that account for the difference in outcomes for children and families involved with child welfare...

Can a large-scale apprenticeship after-school program for high school students improve positive youth development, marketable job skills, and academic performance, and prevent problem behavior?

How do peers influence social attitudes and behaviors?

These funds support additional analyses for Dr. Weissberg and Dr. Durlak’s meta-analysis of school-based social and emotional learning programs.

In what ways do combined family- and school-based programs positively alter peer networks, consequently lowering youth substance use and delinquency?

Are school policies and practices associated with racial disparities in suspension and expulsion rates?

What is the impact of class-size reduction?

Can a self-assessment and coaching intervention be implemented with fidelity, assessed with valid and reliable measures of setting-level processes, and show promise to improve after-school programs?