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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Classroom Instruction to Enhance 1st Grade Writing
September 8, 2015
Investigating the Impact of Classroom Instruction and Literacy Skills on Writing Achievement in First Grade In an effort to determine the best methods to teach writing skills for first graders, School of Education faculty members David Coker, Charles (Skip) MacArthur and Liz Farley-Ripple received a four-year $1.4 million grant, funded by …
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Reading Recovery Scale Up
September 8, 2015
Reading Recovery: Scaling Up What Works Henry May, director of the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP), is leading a team of researchers from the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) to conduct a five-year independent evaluation of the Reading Recovery scale-up. Reading Recovery (RR) is a research-based …
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Computerized Preschool Language Assessment
September 8, 2015
Using Developmental Science to Create a Computerized Preschool Language Assessment The purpose of this $2.8 million 4-year project is to develop a reliable, valid, norm-ready, research-driven, and culturally sensitive computer-based language assessment for children 3- to 5-years-old that can be administered in 20 minutes. The preschool language assessment tool is …
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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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