Projects

Current

From independent, classroom-based research studies to large-scale international evaluations spanning multiple countries, CCT's research projects cover a wide spectrum of settings, scales, scopes of work. This section highlights our current research work, which typically includes 20 to 30 multi-year projects each at different phases of development.

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Passaic Gear Up: Program Evaluation

2008 - 2009

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Evaluating program to prepare and encourage 8th graders toward pursuing post secondary education. More»

PBS Kids Website Evaluations: EekoWorld, Go News Go and News Flash Five

2007 - 2009

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Evaluated websites designed to engage young children in understanding ecology and news media through immersive online experiences. More»

PETLab Game Design Pilot Evaluation

2009 - 2010

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Evaluating a pilot game design program for the Boys & Girls Club of America that incorporates digital and non-digital activities in order to introduce boys and girls between the ages of 9–12 to the principles of game design. More»

Possible Worlds: A National R&D Center on Instructional Technology

2008 - 2013

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Leading five-year effort to develop and incorporate portable game modules that bring inquiry-based learning and instructional supports to traditional science classrooms. More»

Re-Engineering Public Health/Epidemiological Models to Predict the Spread of Literacy and Illiteracy

2006 - 2008

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Explore the use of available data to examine from a "macro" perspective the role that multiple school- and community-level factors may play in supporting or impeding student literacy development. More»

Ready to Learn Summative Evaluation

2006 - 2010

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Conducting a multi-year set of efficacy studies investigating a national public television initiative to raise literacy levels among underserved children. More»

Regional Education Laboratory - Northeast and Islands (REL-NEI)

2006 - 2011

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Part of the Regional Education Laboratory -Northeast and Islands with EDC's Center for Online Professional Education (COPE) More»

The State Role in Adolescent Literacy Improvement: Case Studies of Systemic State Policy Development and Implementation

2008 - 2008

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This project of the Regional Education Laboratory — Northeast and Islands (REL-NEI) is being run by staff from CCT More»

Supporting Staff Developers in Improving Mathematics Education for Students with Disabilities

2008 - 2012

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Uncovering the supports that staff developers need to implement professional development programs that strengthen math education for students with disabilities More»

Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning Study

2005 - 2007

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Studying whether VITAL's use of this rich multimedia environment improves the teaching of early mathematics and can be applied to other university settings. More»