To decrease suspensions, scientists need a better understanding of how perceptions of Black children and adult decision-making combine to impact the number of students subject to disciplinary practices. This project, which is grounded in attribution and social cognitive theories will include: conducting a review and analysis of research in this area; developing videos and vignettes of preschool children’s’ behavior; examining the degree and intensity of preschool teachers’ racialized perceptions of students; and implementation of field research with preschool teachers, pre-service teachers, and pre-service school psychologists to understand if they consider the immediate behavior of the child and the long-term outcomes of children when they recommend suspension from preschool.
Grant Awards
Matthew Mayhew: EDiCTS: Enhancing Diversity in Career and Technical STEM $499,913
The EDiCTS Project: Enhancing Diversity in Career and Technical STEM is designed to enhance diverse student recruitment, retention, graduation, and entry in the automotive technical workforce.
For more information: https://u.osu.edu/coil/projects/
Kenneth Steinman: Evaluation and Planning for Positive Early Childhood Education Program $15,282
Kenneth Steinman: Ohio Statewide Evaluation (Triple P Online) $115,127
Nicole Luthy: Equity Centered Pipeline Initiative Grant $468,050
Hadley Bachman: 21st Century Community Learning Centers Family Engagement Professional Development $237,477
Eric Anderman: Data Project with Terrace Metrics $38,622
Ashlyn Pierson: Collaborative Research: Equitable Science Sensemaking: Helping Teacher Candidates Support Multiple Pathways for Learning $155,994
This project aims to serve the national interest by improving undergraduate education for future elementary science teachers. The overall goal of this project is to support undergraduate elementary teacher candidates’ learning about science and equitable science teaching. The project plans to achieve this goal by designing learning activities for elementary science methods courses that leverage successful practices from the prior work of the project team, including immersive learning, collaborative planning, and reflection.
Noelle Arnold: Columbus City Schools Research Fellows $687,343
The Columbus City Schools Research Fellows are a unique partnership between Columbus City Schools (CCS) and the College of Education and Human Ecology (EHE) at The Ohio State University. The partnership is established to advance the work of up to five faculty members for to pursue research for two years in the Columbus City School System.
“What makes this partnership unique is that fellows are funded by CCS to address initial strategies that are pressing in their own district to meet their goals for providing equitable and adequate educational opportunities for their students,”- Noelle Arnold.
Sunny Munn: Read It Again Agreement $65,000
Read It Again! (RIA) is a curriculum supplement that promotes language and literacy foundations. The curriculum focuses on building phonological awareness, print knowledge, vocabulary, and narrative skills.
This grant supports an evaluation of the expansion of RIA in the Linden and Whitehall communities to identify an implementation process that (a) creates provider buy-in, (b) supports the fidelity of RIA delivery at a larger (and less cost-intensive) scale, and (c) supports the development of learning communities to enhance and sustain provider implementation and collaboration around RIA practice.