Helping kindergarteners develop number sense
September 14, 2015
To help teachers strengthen the foundation of math skills for young children, Nancy Jordan and Nancy Dyson, School of Education, have developed a curriculum called Number Sense Interventions. Jordan is in the midst of a five-year grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to …
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Diagnose Language Processing in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Infants
September 12, 2015
In 2015, Giovanna Morini, a postdoctoral student in UD’s School of Education was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to study, Using the Tools of Developmental Science to Diagnose Language Processing in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Infants. This two-year $184,000 grant is funded by the National Science Foundation. Together with Roberta Golinkoff, SOE and Thierry …
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Self-Regulated strategy instruction in college developmental writing
September 12, 2015
Large numbers of students enter postsecondary programs with a high school diploma but underprepared for college in reading, writing, or math achievement. The most recent National Assessments of Educational Progress (NAEP) in writing in 2011 (NCES; National Center for Educational Statistics, 2012) found that only 27% of students in the final …
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Evaluating the fairness of protection orders
September 11, 2015
The Effects of Civil Protection Orders on Procedural Justice, System Efficacy, and Safety in Domestic Violence Cases UD faculty members, Ruth Fleury-Steiner, HDFS, and Susan Miller, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, received a $300,000 NSF grant aimed at better understanding the experiences of women seeking protection from domestic abuse through civil protection orders. …
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Improving School Climate
September 10, 2015
George Bear, SOE and Debby Boyer, CDS, collaborated with DDOE to secure a 5-yr, $2.8 million School Climate Transformation grant through US DOE. A report, published in December 2014 provides an overview of survey’s applied in Delaware to evaluate the climate in schools regarding students’ behavior and attitudes: “Technical manual for Delaware …
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Differences in Bullying Victimization Between Students With and Without Disabilities
September 10, 2015
Prevalence rates for bullying victimization among children with disabilities have varied greatly in the research literature. Two reasons for such variability–rates vary as a function of disability type, and rates vary based on the bullying measure and criteria used to classify students as bullying victims–were selected as the focus of a study by …
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Nominations open for Fillos Award
September 10, 2015
CEHD salaried or professional staff who are actively pursuing an academic degree are welcome to apply for the Dr. Rita M Fillos Award. Applications are due by 9/30.
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Incentivizing SNAP users toward healthy food alternatives
September 8, 2015
Incentivizing SNAP users toward healthy food alternatives Through a new partnership and a $3.77 million USDA Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) grant, the University of Delaware’s Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP) will help evaluate the effectiveness of incentives at farmer’s markets, helping to make locally grown food more accessible and affordable …
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Intervention may predict math achievement
September 8, 2015
SHAPE UP!: An spatial skills intervention for preschoolers that may predicts mathematics achievement This $880K 3-year study conducted by Roberta Golinkoff follows a group of preschoolers over the course of 14 months and assesses the development their geometric and mathematical ability using a suite of innovative new tasks involving manipulating two- …
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Linking geometric, mathematical and spatial skills
September 8, 2015
The longitudinal relationship between geometric, mathematical, and spatial skills in preschool and kindergarten To uncover the links between geometric, mathematical and spatial skills, this $17K 1-year project, led by Roberta Golinkoff, (subcontract from Temple Univ.) follows children from a previously completed longitudinal study into their kindergarten year. Testing will be …
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Teaching Fractions
September 8, 2015
The Center for Improving Learning of Fractions The Institute of Education Sciences awarded a $10 million grant to UD professor Nancy C. Jordan, Lynn Fuchs at Vanderbilt University and Robert Siegler at Carnegie Mellon University, to fund this 5-year research and development center aimed at understanding difficulties students have with …
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Early Reading Intervention to Benefit English Learners
September 8, 2015
Efficacy of the Targeted Reading Intervention to Benefit English Learners Steve Amendum along with colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University are investigating an early reading intervention and professional development program, the Targeted Reading Intervention (TRI), to test its efficacy with English learners (ELs). The …
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