Grant Awards

Jay Plasman, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational StudiesJay Plas

The purpose of this project is first to explore and then to evaluate career development opportunities in Baltimore City Public Schools. The research team will first identify patterns related to differences in student participation in, access to, and benefits of career development opportunities and then they will conduct an impact, implementation, and cost study of a career development opportunity.

Link to more- https://ies.ed.gov/funding/grantsearch/details.asp?ID=6046

Becky Huang, Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning

This four-week Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program in Taiwan will include twelve K-12 pre-service and in-service educators from Ohio. The four objectives for the program are: 1) Provide pre-service and in-service educators from Ohio with service learning experience by teaching English (as an additional language) in a public K-12 school in Taiwan; 2) Promote pre- and in-service educators’ intercultural competence and understanding of multilingual and multicultural education via a comparative lens; 3) Grow pre- and in-service Ohio educators’ capacities to develop culturally efficacious pedagogical materials and practices that will be shared with colleagues in Taiwan and in Ohio; and 4) Develop pre- and in-service Ohio educators’ Mandarin language proficiency with intensive Mandarin language lessons and authentic engagements with Mandarin speakers and the multilingual/multicultural spaces in Taiwan.

Link to more – https://ielp.ehe.osu.edu/team/ivan-stefano/

Roger Goddard, Professor, Department of Educational Studies

Research suggests that building strong school leadership may help address declining student achievement and educator turnover. To study the issue, Roger Goddard, the Novice G. Fawcett Professor in Education Administration, and Minjung Kim, associate professor of quantitative research, evaluation and measurement, will study the impact of the widely used Balanced Leadership for Student Learning™ on educator and student outcomes. They will work with the study’s principal investigator Tedra Clark, PhD, of McREL International, on the four-year project.

Link to more – https://ies.ed.gov/funding/grantsearch/details.asp?ID=5980

Danene Fast, Assistant Professor, Clinical, Department of Teaching and Learning

Nationally, recent data shows the field of visual impairment has a significant shortage of professionals available to work with the number of individuals with visual impairments who require instruction. This distance-enhanced, graduate-level program prepares scholars to become certified as orientation and mobility specialists. It includes a focus on the importance of diversity, inclusion and equity in service provision. Further, it teaches scholars how to provide administrators, parents, teachers and other stakeholders with increased awareness of the specialized needs of students who are blind or visually impaired and to advocate for their inclusion across settings.

Caezilia Loibl, Professor, Department of Human Sciences

Economic insecurity in older age can reduce the ability to cope with a costly disease and exacerbate racial health disparities. This study asks: How do different sources of financial resources associate with the control of type-2 diabetes, a common chronic condition in older age? We construct a new panel dataset that links electronic health records to employment and credit data for a sample of older adults in Ohio from 2018-2022. We identify how wage earnings, access to credit, and debt are related to diabetes control and disability-related complications. We expect the association between financial resources and diabetes control to be stronger for economically vulnerable groups who are more dependent on Social Security retirement benefits.

More information: https://rdrc.wisc.edu/project/wi24-03