Examples of Past Research Projects Available to Professorial Assistants
Supporting Student Motivation and Engagment (Dr. Lisa Linnenbrink-Garica ) Michigan State University Early Learning Institute (Dr. Josh Plavnick ) Evaluating an Employment Related Social Skills Training Program for Transition-Age Youth with Autisum: The ASSET Program (Dr. Connie Sung) Skills to Pay the Bills: Teachnology-Based Soft Skills and Vocational Intervention Program for Youth with Autism or Criminal Record (Dr. Connie Sung ) Implementing and Evaluating Training for Youth or Young Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Dr. Connie Sung ) School-to-Work Transition for High School Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Dr. Connie Sung ) Alignment in Reading Instructional Programs and Assessment Instruments (Dr. Sara Witmer ) Evaluating Sports-related Concussions in High School and Collegiate Athletics (Dr. Tracey Covassin ) Early Life Undernutrition Influences Cardiac Development (Dr. David Ferguson) Control of Bimanual Coordination in Humans (Dr. Florian Kagerer ) Motor Learning and Development (Dr. Mei-Hua Lee ) Physical Activity and Academic Success (Dr. James Pivarnik ) Physical Activity and Pregnancy (Dr. James Pivarnik) Educational Research – High School Physics (Dr. Alicia Alonzo ) Tools for Teaching Engineering for Sustainable Communities (Dr. Angela Calabrese Barton) Eight Athletes Tweeting: Designing a Research-Based Social Media Mentoring Program for NCAA Division I Student-Athletes (Dr. Douglas Hartman ) Globalization, Education and Teaching (Dr. Lynn Paine ) The Politics of Education Reform (Dr. Rebecca Jacobsen ) Teaching and Learning of History (Dr. Maribel Santiago ) Studying How Beginning Elementary Teachers Notice and Respond to Students’ Scientific Sense-Making (Dr. Christina Schwarz ) How Teachers Teach and Learn to Teach Science at the Preschool, Elementary and Middle School Levels (Dr. Christina Schwarz ) The Verses Project: Exploring Literacy through Lyrics and Song (Dr. Vaughn W. M. Watson ) Development and Implementation of a Family Psycho-Educational Intervention for Transition-Age Individuals with Autism and Other Neuro-Developmental Disabilities (Dr. Gloria Lee ) Development of a Curriculum of Emotional Regulation for Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (Dr. Gloria Lee ) Development of a Dynamic Vocabulary Assessment to Help Teachers Identify Kindergarten Students with Reading Comprehension Difficultues (Dr. Eunsoo Cho ) Engaging K-12 Students to Think Computationally (Dr. Aman Yadav ) Analysis of Elementary and Middle School Students’ Written Composition (Dr. Adrea Truckenmiller ) UTEMPT: University Teaching Experience for Mathematics Prospective Teachers (Dr. Kristen Bieda ) Human Performance Factors of Developmental Racecar Drivers (Dr. Jennifer VanDerHeide ) ELMS: Engaging Learning Moments in Science (Dr. Barbara Schneider )
