Steele Symposium 2024
April 17, 2024
On April 19, the University of Delaware College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) will host the annual Marion H. Steele Symposium to share and celebrate the innovative research of its undergraduate and graduate students in education, human development and related disciplines. Over the past 39 years, more than 450 …
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Research Spotlight: Amanda Jansen
March 27, 2024
If your high schooler has ever complained about their math homework—wondering when they’ll ever need the pythagorean theorem after graduation—they are not alone. Research in mathematics education often shows that students’ motivation to learn math tends to decline as students move through the K-12 school system. So University of Delaware …
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Research Spotlight: Roderick L. Carey
February 29, 2024
What comes next after high school graduation? While this question can be vexing for many students, adolescents from low-income Black and Latinx communities face many barriers in imagining and actualizing life after high school. Many educators help these students persevere by adopting a “college-for-all” school culture, but few studies have …
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Davis, Shores Named 2023 Gerard J. Mangone Young Scholars
January 24, 2024
Pursuing research that solves real-world problems with practical solutions is what drives Kenneth Shores and Kyle Davis, who have been honored with the University of Delaware’s Gerard J. Mangone Young Scholars Award for 2023. The award is named for the late pioneering legal scholar who spent almost 40 years teaching …
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In the News: Christina Barbieri
December 22, 2023
Education Week featured the mathematics research of Christina Barbieri, assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Development’s School of Education, as one of the top 10 education studies amongst their readers. In her meta-analysis of more than 100 studies of math interventions, Barbieri and her co-authors found …
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Research Spotlight: Jessica Namkung
December 19, 2023
“How do I multiply fractions again? How much time do I have left to finish this test? I’m not good at math and I never will be!” Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students’ math performance both in the moment and throughout their math …
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University of Delaware Rises in Research Rankings
December 5, 2023
The University of Delaware’s reputation as a research powerhouse just got another big boost. In the latest Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey released by the National Science Foundation, UD ranks 47th out of 626 academic institutions across the United States when comparing non-medical school R&D expenditures. The HERD Survey provides …
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Research Spotlight: Leigh McLean
October 17, 2023
In a new study funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, University of Delaware Associate Research Professor Leigh McLean and her co-authors Jayley Janssen, Paul Espinoza, Sarah Lindstrom Johnson of Arizona State University and Manuela Jimenez of Glendale Community College found that teachers’ math and science anxiety were each positively …
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Research Spotlight: Eric K. Layland
September 5, 2023
In a new, first-of-its-kind study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, University of Delaware Assistant Professor Eric K. Layland and co-authors Richard Bränström of the Karolinska Institutet and Gabriel Murchison and John Pachankis of Yale University investigated the timing of developmental milestones for more than 100,000 lesbian, gay …
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Summer Scholars in the Spotlight
August 10, 2023
After a summer of exploration, hundreds of students have stories to tell, insights to share, findings to celebrate. On Thursday, Aug. 10, they will gather at the University of Delaware’s Patrick T. Harker Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (ISE) Lab to present what they’ve done and what they’ve learned at the …
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Research Spotlight: Mellissa S. Gordon
August 3, 2023
In a new article published in Youth and Society, University of Delaware Associate Professor Mellissa Gordon and co-author Christine McCauley Ohannessian of Florida State University analyzed survey data from 1,459 middle schoolers in the Northeast United States and found that academic achievement decreased as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter use …
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In the News: Kenneth Shores
July 26, 2023
In a recent article in The 74, Kenneth Shores, assistant professor in CEHD’s School of Education and the Joseph R. Biden Jr., School of Public Policy, discusses the impact of federal aid designed to curb student learning loss during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Shores notes that the federal …
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