Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Opportunities
- Project PAC (Pre-Algebra Competence): Hiring
Project PAC (Pre-Algebra Competence): Hiring We are looking for responsible undergraduate and graduate students to work on our project as research assistants (PI: Dr. Jessica Namkung, School of Education). The project aims at identifying explicit links …
Faculty Mentor(s): - Evaluating Artifacts of Principal Performance
Hours/Week: 10 The undergraduate research scholar will contribute to one project within Dr. Lauren Bailes’s research program: this project invites current school leaders and their supervisors to assess Delaware’s principal evaluation rubric. This proje …
Faculty Mentor(s): Lauren BailesHours/Week: 8-10 - Team Readiness for Educational Improvement
The undergraduate research scholar will contribute to one project within Dr. Lauren Bailes’s research program: this project observes and evaluates a design thinking professional development delivered to schools by the Delaware Department of Education ( …
Faculty Mentor(s): Lauren P Bailes, PhDHours/Week: 5-7 - School Improvement and Educational Leadership Preparation
The undergraduate research scholar will work with Dr. Bryan VanGronigen’s research program, which centers on (a) how to improve schools and (b) how to prepare educational leaders. Depending on interest and/or fit, the scholar is welcome to work on one …
Faculty Mentor(s): Bryan A. VanGronigenHours/Week: 5-7 - EXAMINING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN MATHEMATICAL LEARNING AND COGNITION
Dr. Barbieri’s research program centers broadly on instruction for students who struggle in math. Specifically, her work focuses on the evaluation and application of learning principles to improve mathematical competencies and motivation for math, espe …
Faculty Mentor(s): Christina Areizaga BarbieriHours/Week: 8-10 - Stigma and Health Inequities Lab
We aim to contribute to research that: (1) promotes understanding of how stigma is associated with health inequities, and (2) identifies strategies to help intervene in stigma and health inequities to promote the wellbeing of people living with sociall …
Faculty Mentor(s): Valerie Earnshaw , Carly HillHours/Week: 5-7 - CRESP – Evalaution Apprenticeship
The student will work with the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy, CRESP, as part of a team to do qualitative interviewing, quantitative survey summaries and online survey development, as well as reporting results. Reporting will includ …
Faculty Mentor(s): Allison Karpyn - Inequality, Fairness, and Growth: Preferences for Charitable Contributions in Gentrifying Schools
In this project, we will conduct a series of survey experiments to understand the preferences of parents for a set of hypothetical scenarios related to charitable contributions in recently gentrified (diversified) school settings. Specifically, we ask …
Faculty Mentor(s): Kenneth ShoresHours/Week: 8-10 - Racial Disparities in Everyday Discrimination and Blood Pressure Trajectories Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
The study focuses on how day-to-day exposure to discrimination influences racial disparities in blood pressure over the life course. Discrimination is major a source of stress disproportionately affecting Black adults in the United States and is hypoth …
Faculty Mentor(s): Heather Farmer, Ph.D.Hours/Week: 5-7 - Survivor-Centered Services during a Pandemic
Public health experts agree the best approach to slowing the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. is enacting large- and small-scale social distancing measures. However, there are vulnerable subpopulations for whom this approach is particularly problematic, …
Faculty Mentor(s): Ruth Fleury-Steiner, Susan Miller (Sociology & Criminal Justice), Jennifer Horney (Epidemiology)