BOONE, BARBARA; Mahlman, Robert
EHE College Center: Center on Education and Training for Employment (CETE)
Project Title: Coordination of regional family-community engagement network
Project Dates: 07/08/2014 – 06/30/2015
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $67,000
Project Sponsor: Ohio Department of Education
Abstract: From October 2013 through June 2014, CETE worked with OEC and the SSTs to build the capacity of SSTs for engaging families of students with disabilities and communities. The 2014-2015 Family Engagement Project with CETE will continue and build upon the activities of first nine months for a full year beginning July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015. This will include collaborating with OEC to integrate family engagement, particularly the families of students with disabilities, into systems such as the Ohio Improvement Process, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports and the State Personnel Development Grant. CETE will work with the SSTs and OEC to develop resources for families and to improve regional networks as identified by the baseline assessments in 2013-2014.
BOONE, BARBARA; Mahlman, Robert
EHE College Center: Center on Education and Training for Employment (CETE)
Project Title: SPDG parent-educator collaboration project management and resource development project
Project Dates: 07/21/2014 – 06/30/2015
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $97,000
Project Sponsor: Ohio Department of Education
Abstract: From October 2013 through June 2014, CETE provided project coordination for the SPDG Parent-Educator Collaboration Project. This project includes 12 months of project coordination and resource development beginning July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015. CETE will enhance the existing SPDG project coordination of ODE by continuing to provide focused coordination, project management, and resource development of the Parent-Educator Partnerships component of the overall comprehensive SPDG work.
JULIAN, DAVID; Mahlman, Robert
EHE College Center: Center on Education and Training for Employment (CETE)
Project Title: Physicians leadership academy (Year 1 evaluation)
Project Dates: 07/09/2014 – 06/30/2015
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $34,028
Project Sponsor: Columbus Medical Association Foundation
Abstract: The purpose of this project is to evaluate the Physician Leadership Academy (PLA). The PLA is a leadership development program designed to increase the leadership capacity of physicians through the following core program components: Supporting participants to develop a regular mindfulness meditation practice; Strengthening participants’ social/emotional competencies; Increasing participants knowledge and skills through a transformational; leadership curriculum; and Creating a supportive environment for participants to build relationships that are conducive to exploring newly acquired knowledge, skills, and behaviors.
JUSTICE, LAURA; Lawton, Kathy; Logan, Jessica
EHE College Center: Teaching & Learning
Project Title: Evaluation of the caregiver supports for early literacy intervention
Project Dates: 09/01/2014 – 08/31/2016
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $197,552
Project Sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institute of Health (NIH)
Abstract: The long-term objective of this work is to examine the impacts of planned variations of theory- informed behavioral supports provided to caregivers; caregivers receive these supports when implementing an empirically validated 15-week early-literacy intervention with their children with language impairment (LI). An empirically validated intervention for improving the early-literacy skills of children with LI, and potentially reducing risk for future reading disability, is Sit Together and Read (STAR); STAR features repeated reading of storybooks in which adults embed explicit references to print-related targets. When implemented by children’s caregivers, children with LI show significant improvements in their early-literacy skills, which may in turn boost future reading performance. However, recent studies show that caregiver implementation of two ‘active ingredients’ of the intervention which are necessary for it to be delivered at the desired strength- intensity and dosage – is low for a substantial subset of caregivers. By applying a four-step approach to developing theory-informed behavior change interventions, the proposed study examines how four behavior-change techniques (referred to as Reward, Feedback, Motivate, and Encourage), delivered in isolation and in multiple combinations, may influence caregivers’ implementation of the intervention with respect to intensity and dosage and, in turn, children’s outcomes. To address these goals, the study will involve 128 caregivers and their 4- and 5-year- old children with LI, each assigned to one of16 different conditions within a factorial experiment. The factorial design allows us sufficient power to detect medium-sized effects and to test specific behavior-change techniques on their own and in multiple combinations. Caregivers will implement the 15-week STAR intervention at a planned intensity of 60 sessions (within-session dosage of about 6-8 explicit print references). Study results will determine whether caregivers’ implementation can be enhanced via exposure to theoretically based behavior change techniques.
MAHLMAN, ROBERT; Lepicki, Traci
EHE College Center: Center on Education and Training for Employment (CETE)
Project Title: ABLE Professional Development Network
Project Dates: 08/01/2014 – 06/30/2015
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $1,400,000
Project Sponsor: Ohio Board of Regents
ZIRKLE, CHRISTOPHER
EHE College Department: Educational Studies
Project Title: Professional development workshop for Shanghai material engineering school, Shanghai, China
Project Dates: 08/01/2014 – 08/31/2014
Anticipated Total Award Amount: $33,241
Project Sponsor: Shanghai International Vocational Training Development Center
Abstract: The College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University is providing a 2-week professional development workshop for 12 teachers from Shanghai Material Engineering School, Shanghai, China