CEHD In The News 2023-2024
July 31, 2024
Read the latest on CEHD faculty, staff and programs featured in news publications. July 2024 Cellphone Pouches to be Piloted at Schools Across Delaware (Kenneth Shores, Yahoo! News, July 25) For Illinois students, the promises of for-profit colleges often ring hollow (Dominique Baker, Marketplace, July 23) Woman Can’t Understand The …
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Research Spotlight: Joshua Wilson
July 30, 2024
When ChatGPT burst onto the scene in November 2022, many educators and parents worried that new writing tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) would help their students bypass important learning opportunities. Instead, as University of Delaware Associate Professor Joshua Wilson has shown, AI-powered writing and evaluation tools have actually helped …
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Research Spotlight: Henry May and Sharon Walpole
June 28, 2024
In 2016, Delaware’s Seaford School District adopted the aptly titled Bookworms curriculum, an open access literacy program for students in kindergarten through grade 5 developed by University of Delaware Professor Sharon Walpole. Students’ love of reading grew rapidly, as well as their literacy achievement: the percentage of students achieving proficient …
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Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth
June 26, 2024
In a first-of-its-kind study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, University of Delaware assistant professor Eric Layland and his co-authors investigated how discriminatory laws and policies affected the developmental milestones of more than 100,000 lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adolescents and adults across 28 European countries. Layland and …
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Using Large Language Models as a Teaching Assistant
May 6, 2024
Join University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) for a colloquium with Ryan S. Baker, professor in the learning, teaching and literacies division in the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, on May 8, 2024 from 1:50 to 2:50 p.m. in room 205 of Willard Hall …
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Unsettled science on the long-term impact of early education
May 3, 2024
Early childhood education programs can help young children develop foundational academic and social-emotional skills, especially for children in underserved communities. However, a new article published by University of Delaware Assistant Professor Anamarie Whitaker and her co-authors argues that the science on the long-term effects of early childhood education is unsettled. …
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Research Spotlight: Sarah Curtiss
April 29, 2024
With graduation season around the corner, many autistic high school and college seniors may feel a unique tension between their hopes—what is possible—and their expectations—what is probable—when it comes to their future careers. Autistic youth face so many barriers to employment that one third of young adults on the autism …
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Steele Symposium Celebrates Student Research
April 24, 2024
On April 19, the University of Delaware College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) hosted the annual Marion H. Steele Symposium to share and celebrate the innovative research of its undergraduate and graduate students in education, human development and related disciplines. Since 1985, hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students have …
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Steele Symposium 2024
April 17, 2024
On April 19, the University of Delaware College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) will host the annual Marion H. Steele Symposium to share and celebrate the innovative research of its undergraduate and graduate students in education, human development and related disciplines. Over the past 39 years, more than 450 …
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Research Spotlight: Amanda Jansen
March 27, 2024
If your high schooler has ever complained about their math homework—wondering when they’ll ever need the pythagorean theorem after graduation—they are not alone. Research in mathematics education often shows that students’ motivation to learn math tends to decline as students move through the K-12 school system. So University of Delaware …
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Research Spotlight: Roderick L. Carey
February 29, 2024
What comes next after high school graduation? While this question can be vexing for many students, adolescents from low-income Black and Latinx communities face many barriers in imagining and actualizing life after high school. Many educators help these students persevere by adopting a “college-for-all” school culture, but few studies have …
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Davis, Shores Named 2023 Gerard J. Mangone Young Scholars
January 24, 2024
Pursuing research that solves real-world problems with practical solutions is what drives Kenneth Shores and Kyle Davis, who have been honored with the University of Delaware’s Gerard J. Mangone Young Scholars Award for 2023. The award is named for the late pioneering legal scholar who spent almost 40 years teaching …
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