Research

Faculty in the Department of Education currently have over $15 million of external funding to carry out research and educational outreach in a wide range of areas, from academic literacy to arts education to after-school learning.

Current Projects

Accelerating Academic Literacy

Achievement, Attention, and Behavior Across Middle Childhood

Adult Correlates of Age 7-10 Achievement, Attention, and Behavioral Skills

Baby Books Project

Building a Strategic Academic Alignment Framework for After School

California Motivation Project (CAMP)

Coloring Achievement

Color of Success

Consequences of Summertime for Adolescent Development

Development of Cognitive Skills

Extending Pathway Project Research to the Community College

High-Quality SES / 21st Century CLC Demonstration Project Evaluation

Investigating the Nature of University Supervisors' "Noticing" of Classroom Lessons

Learning for the 21st Century

Learning Math by Comparison

Learning Science by Comparison

Math-Science Partnership (MSP) - Motivation Assessment Program

Mistakes as Tools for Learning in U.S. Mathematics Teaching

National Forum on the Science of Early Childhood Program Evalutation

National Portrait of 16- to 26-Year-Olds Who are not on Track to Attain a Post-Secondary Education Credential

Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Youth

Netbooks and Open Tools in Education

One Laptop per Mexican Child

Online and Offline Networks

Out-of-School Time and Successful Navigation of High School

Pathway Project

Preschool Program Impacts on School Readiness

Raising the Bar

The Role of Experimentation in STEM Education Research Projects

Shockwaves: Affirmative Action Bans

Social Influences on Early Adult Stress Biomarkers

Spatial Temporal Mathematics at Scale

State of California DOE After-School Outcome Measures

Study of Promising After-School Programs: Follow-Up

Teaching Artist Training Program

Technology and English Language Teaching

Third Grade Social Skills and Later Attainment

"What do You Notice?": Pre-Service Teachers' Professional Vision for Math Teaching

Why do Asian American Students Do Better in School?

Completed Projects

Algebra Learning For All (ALFA)

Capturing Teacher Knowledge (TeKno)

Literacy in the History Classroom

Mapping the Arts

Mapping the Beat

New Media Technologies and Civic Literacy

Next Generation

NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, Phase IV

Paving the Way: K-16 Partnerships

Peer Impacts on Attitudes and Drinking Behavior

The Role of Video in Teacher Learning

Study of Promising After-School Programs

Technology, Out-of-School Learning, and Human Development

Uncovering Literacies