Roberta Golinkoff featured in new documentary on play
February 27, 2019
What can kindergarteners gain from play-based learning? In a new documentary from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Roberta Golinkoff highlights the advantages of a play-based approach to kindergarten and shares her research on the cognitive and social-emotional benefits of play. Titled Kindergarten: Where Play and Learning Can Meet, the documentary …
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Faculty Awarded $3.3 million Dept. of Education Grant
February 15, 2019
Research grant will fund professional development to benefit English learners Steve Amendum and colleagues from Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are seeking to develop a comprehensive teacher professional development (PD) program aimed at increasing collaboration between classroom and English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) teachers to benefit young Latinx English …
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McNair Scholar explores developing culturally-sensitive lessons
September 4, 2018
Nicole Mejia first heard of the McNair Scholars Program from a University of Delaware classmate. She’d told Mejia about the opportunities it opened up by preparing her for graduate school. A nationally-sponsored program, the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program (the McNair Scholars Program) offers effective preparation for doctoral …
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Education undergraduate evaluated automated essay-scoring software
August 21, 2018
Cristina Ahrendt, majoring in elementary teacher education, has been working with a faculty member in the School of Education’s literacy department to evaluate whether automated essay-scoring software positively affects writing instruction and achievement. “When I first thought about doing research, I anticipated that it could primarily consist of doing solitary, …
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Jansen Recognized for Rough Draft Math
June 25, 2018
One of the most anxiety-provoking moments in math class is being called upon to offer the solution to a newly learned concept. There are so many places where your thinking can go askew and–even if you’re mainly correct in your calculation–your answer is WRONG. Amanda Jansen, SOE professor has …
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Steele Symposium 2018
May 18, 2018
Steele Symposium 2018 An annual celebration of our students’ scholarship Friday, May 11, 2018 12:30 – 6:00 p.m. Clayton Hall on UD’s Laird Campus 100 David Hollowell Dr. The Steele Symposium is coordinated by the College of Education and Human Development and includes presentations by undergraduate and graduate students from the …
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Suicide prevention research led to a career
May 11, 2018
Taylor Ryan, a graduate of the HDFS 4+1 program, conducted and presented her research every year as a student at UD. As a master’s student, she began to research a topic very close to her heart, which she presented during the 2018 Steele Symposium “Opening the Gates: Universities and Suicide …
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Math Ed professor to study mathematics motivation and engagement
January 6, 2018
When children are young, they are mathematically curious all of the time. We hear them challenging each other to count to the highest number, chatting about the concept of infinity, and identifying patterns in games that ask them to “pick the item that doesn’t belong.” As they progress through school, …
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Nadisha Downs student researcher/advocate
December 4, 2017
Nadisha Downs, a Human Services major, collaborated with HDFS faculty, Rob Palkovitz, to study the involvement of young African American fathers in the lives of their children. Nadisha Downs grew up in Wilmington and is intimately aware of the struggles faced by its residents. Determined to help improve …
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Spencer grant to improve assessment of students’ writing skills
October 20, 2017
Josh Wilson’s Spencer Grant will allow him to expand his research to develop a new computerized formative assessment model that identifies student language skills at the word, sentence, and discourse level through automated evaluations of the essay’s word choice, syntax, and cohesion. He will examine results across multiple genres of student …
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NIH grant will study of stigma surrounding drug use
October 20, 2017
Valerie Earnshaw, UD’s CEHD Faculty Scholar, received a 4-year Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the NIH to examine longitudinal associations between disclosure, stigma, social support, and SUD recovery-related outcomes among people receiving SUD treatment.
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Improving ELA instruction in DE classrooms
August 30, 2017
Literacy professors Josh Wilson and Charles MacArthur received an IES grant to study the effect PEG Writing software has on nearly 3,000 students from Red Clay School District in grades 3-5. The grant partners them with Gaysha Beard, supervisor of Red Clay’s English language arts (ELA).
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