Sentences with phrase «expansion of their research collaboration»

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A committee convened by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) said in a 2011 report no expansion of the program should be made without better collaboration with the existing public health system.

Collaboration agreement signed / Expansion of the university's international research network...

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Our focus on innovative programs, research - supported mental health treatment and community collaboration has resulted in expansion of mental health, parent support and early childhood programs to two locations serving the Greater Long Beach / South Bay area of Los Angeles County, to several partner schools and Head Starts; home - based services, co-located services at a large children's medical clinic on a hospital campus, and at Carmelitos Housing Community; Sexual Assault Response Team emergency response for children from birth through 14 years at three Southeast Los Angeles County hospitals, and eight early childhood education - focused child waiting rooms serving Superior Courts across Los Angeles County.