Research Projects

• Developing Chinese Language Teachers: Scholarship Assistance
• Principal Investigator: Frank Tang
  Department: Teaching and Learning
  Funded by: College Board
  Summary: This program requests scholarship support that will put growing numbers of teachers of Chinese in America's primary, elementary and high school classrooms - where suddenly they are in great demand. With the assistance of the College Board and China's Office of Chinese Language Council International... (click for more)
• Muslim Immigrant Parents Negotiating with Schools: Implications for Children
• Principal Investigator: Selcuk Sirin
  Department: Applied Psychology
  Funded by: Foundation for Child Development
  Summary: The three-year longitudinal study will identify the degree to which 1) family characteristics and parental practices, 2) school characteristics and teacher perspectives, and 3) the nature of teacher-p... (click for more)
• A New Approach to Teaching History and Civics
• Principal Investigator: James Fraser
  Department: Teaching and Learning
  Funded by: Gift of Time Foundation
  Summary: This proposal seeks funding for the design, development, and implementation of Critical Inquiry Groups to provide on-going support to undergraduate and graduate elementary... (click for more)
• Meeting the Challenges of Radical School Reform NSRF/NY at the Crossroads
• Principal Investigator: Joseph McDonald
  Department: Teaching and Learning
  Funded by: Bay and Paul Foundation
  Summary: The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) is now engaged in a radical decentralization - this time to the level of schools and networks of schools. The National School Reform Faculty Center of Activity in New York (NSRF/NY) feels an obligation based on its history and its values to become involved in this... (click for more)
• Molecules and Minds: Optimizing Simulations for Chemistry Education
• Principal Investigator: Jan L Plass
  Department: Adminstration, Leadership & Technology
  Funded by: U.S. Department of Education/Institute of Education Sciences
  Summary: The goal of the project is to develop effective chemistry simulations that are optimized for a broad range of learners, including students of ethnic or racial minority groups that have underachieved a... (click for more)
• Use of Standards-Based Mathematical Instructional Materials
• Principal Investigator: Karen King
  Department: Teaching and Learning
  Funded by: National Science Foundation
  Summary: The objective of this project is to study the ways in which middle school teachers adapt Standards-based instructional materials in mathematics. To conduct this study, the project team will conduct a mixed-methods research design... (click for more)
• Measuring Hand Function Development of an Outcome Measure
• Principal Investigator: Christine Chen
  Funded by: NIH/NICHD/NCMRR
  Department: Occupational Therapy
  Summary: The primary aim of the project is to develop and refine a hand function questionnaire "Manual Ability Measure" so that it is valid, reliable and clinically useful. A second aim is to assess ... (click for more)
• Families as Partners
• Principal Investigator: Barbara Schwartz
  Department: Teaching and Learning
  Funded by: NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
  Summary: This program proposes the development of two conferences and related activities to support the development of effective strategies for including families in early intervention services through the "Families as Partners" model... (click for more)
• NYU Noyce Scholarship Program
• Principal Investigator:Pamela Fraser-Abder, PI :: Co-PIs: Karen King, Allen Mincer, Joseph McDonald, Jalal Shatah
  Department: Biology, Teaching and Learning, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  Funded by: National Science Foundation
  Summary: The NYU Noyce Scholarship Program will prepare 26 new science or math teachers for high-needs secondary schools in three cohorts over the course of four years. These are in addition to all other math and science secondary teachers who will be prepared at NYU during the grant period... (click for more)
• Improving Cognitive Rehabilitation Strategies for Learning and Memory in Multiple Sclerosis
• Principal Investigator: Yael Goverover
  Department: Occupational Therapy
  Funded by: The National Multiple Sclerosis Society
  Summary: Past research has shown that individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience memory problems most frequently in the initial learning of new information.  With the help of a research grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, this study focuses on how to increase that initial learning... (click for more)
• IRADS: The Study of Culture, Social Setting, and Child Development across School Transitions
• Principal Investigator: Catherine Tamis-LeMonda, Diane Hughes, Niobe Way, and Hiro Yoshikawa
  Department: Applied Psychology
  Funded by: National Science Foundation
  Summary: The proposed NYU IRADS seeks to advance research and theory on intersections among developmental domains and social settings in urban, ethnically diverse young children and adolescents who are undergoing the transition to formal schooling and high school, respectively. This work is founded on three basic... (click for more)
• Changing Classroom Climate and Other School Micro-Contexts to Promote Children's Social-Emotional and Academic Development: The 4Rs Setting-Level Study
• Principal Investigator: Joshua Brown
  Department:
  Funded by: William T. Grant Foundation
  Summary: One of the most important developmental contexts of middle childhood is school classrooms. Theory and empirical research conceptualizing and testing key features of classrooms as interrelated and dyn... (click for more)
• Latino Family Involvement and Children's School Readiness: A Mixed Methods Study

• Principal Investigator: Christine McWayne and Gigliana Melzi
  Department: Applied Psychology
  Funded by: NIH
  Summary: The primary aim of the proposed study is to examine the specific and unique ways that Latino families support children's school readiness through their involvement behaviors. In addition to its focus on Latino children and families, the strength of this proposal is its integration of qualitative and quantitative... (click for more)

• Developing K-12 Chinese Language Teachers
• Principal Investigator: Frank Tang
  Department: Teaching and Learning
  Funded by: The Freeman Foundation
  Summary: This multi-level collaborative program entitled Developing Chinese Language Teachers (Project DLCT) would expand NYU's existing Program in Foreign Language Education in Chinese in order to meet the dramatically increasing need for Chinese language teachers in American schools... (click for more)
• Methamphetamine Use, HIV Behaviors and Mental Health in the Black Communities of New York City
• Principal Investigator: Perry N Halkitis
  Department: Applied Psychology
  Funded by: New York Community Trust
  Summary: The goal of the project is to conduct a mixed-methods, community-centered study to develop holistic understanding of methamphetamine abuse and associated risk taking among Black gay, bisexual and other... (click for more)