Increasing Vocabulary in Preschoolers
September 8, 2015
Increasing Vocabulary in Preschoolers: Using Cognitive Science to Guide Pedagogy The purpose of this project is to create and test a novel approach to building preschool teachers’ abilities to foster vocabulary and therefore, broader language skills among preschool children from low-income homes. The $50K 3-year grant (subcontract from Vanderbilt) serves to …
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Delaware Stars
September 8, 2015
Delaware Stars for Early Success Delaware Stars for Early Success provides Delaware’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) focusing on quality improvement in Early Care and Education programs serving children and youth 6 weeks to 12 years of age. Contracted by the Delaware Department of Education and managed by the …
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Enhance K-5 reading curriculum
September 2, 2015
Research to Practice Sharon Walpole is partnering with long-time collaborator Michael McKenna (University of Virginia) to use formative experiment techniques to enhance a K-5 curriculum the two have written. The pair developed Bookworms, a free, open-access, elementary ELA curriculum The curriculum was initially introduced in a rural school system in Georgia. It has …
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OIA brings medical technology into secondary classrooms
August 21, 2015
An interdisciplinary team of students and faculty from University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development and College of Engineering have developed unique curriculum kits, called Orthopaedics in Action (OIA), that teach science, mathematics and engineering concepts through medical experiments. OIA was created to bridge the gap between engineering …
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Funding for students to Make a Difference
August 17, 2015
Starting this fall, the College of Education and Human Development will be accepting proposals on innovative student solutions to challenging problems that impact children, families, schools and communities. Undergraduate students at UD are encouraged identify an important social or education problem, create an interdisciplinary team, and develop an innovative solution that …
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Implementing research in schools
August 17, 2015
In 2015, CRESP Director Henry May, and SOE researcher Elizabeth Farley-Ripple were awarded a $5 million research grant to establish the Center for Research Use in Education (CRUE). The center will be located within CRESP and will study knowledge utilization, or gaps between research and practice within schools. Over the next …
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A software program that evaluates essay writing
August 14, 2015
Researchers have established that computer models are highly predictive of how humans would have scored a given piece of writing. However, Joshua Wilson, School of Education, took his research another step to look at how the software might be used in conjunction with instruction and not as a standalone scoring/feedback …
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Integrating climate change into PD
August 12, 2015
MADE CLEAR is a collaborative National Science Foundation-funded project that prepares educators from Delaware and Maryland to teach about climate change. The University of Delaware has an interdisciplinary team of researchers and educators focusing on the design, implementation and outcomes of teacher professional development that helps teachers translates the science of …
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Promoting Quality Improvement for Family Child Care Providers
August 12, 2015
Stars Plus: Promoting Quality Improvement for Family Child Care Providers in QRIS using a Community of Practice Model Principal Investigator Rena Hallam, and Co-Principal Investigators Martha Buell, Myae Han and Kaitlin Bargreen have partnered with the Kentucky Department for Community Based Services University of Kentucky, Delaware Office of Early Learning …
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Incentives to purchase of healthier foods
July 27, 2015
For the 47 million Americans participating in SNAP, it’s difficult for them to put healthy food on their table. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a study in July 2014 that explored incentives designed to encourage participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to make healthier food choices. Allison Karpyn, …
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