Grant Awards

David Julian, Program Director of Equity, Engagement and Evaluation

With this grant funding, the CETE Equity Engagement and Evaluation Team will provide support for the Ohio Interagency Council for Youth (OICY) through a variety of planning and evaluation services including strategic planning, logic model development, outcomes definition, random assignment, and experimental evaluation. The OICY was convened in part to improve treatment access and quality of services for youth and emerging adults (ages 12-25) with substance use disorders (SUDs) or SUDs and co-occurring mental health disorders.

Arya Ansari, Assistant Professor, Human Sciences

The main objective of this project is to provide a more nuanced understanding of associations between school characteristics, classroom processes, and students’ language, academic, executive function, and social skills. The first aim focuses on the associations between school characteristics (i.e., academic performance, strain, and organization of resources) and students’ early learning. The second aim explores the degree to which school characteristics are associated with children’s experiences in classrooms (i.e., classroom interactional quality, teacher-student relationships, instructional rigor), and the degree to which these classroom processes mediate relations between school characteristics and students’ learning. The third aim explores moderators of the association between school-level characteristics, classroom processes, and student learning. When taken together, the constructs examined in this study represent malleable factors that could result in improvements in children’s school success.