Projects
Research is at the heart of all we do at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. As one of the nation's foremost multidisciplinary centers devoted to the study of children from infancy to adolescence, our scientists are committed to conducting research and evaluation studies that improve children's lives, support families, and inform public policy.
Learn more about our projects—current and completed—by clicking on the links below. And to stay up to date on news and events related to our work via social media, visit our Project Digital Directory.
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The purpose of this project is to develop and test an intervention to support the development of adolescents' self-regulation skills during the middle school years. The Self-Regulation Skills for Success (SRSS) intervention will adapt and integrate strategies from existing evidence-based programs guided by a theory of change that intentionally targets self-regulatory processes in need of support and development during early adolescence: immature cognitive controls, increased emotionality and stress reactivity, and responsivity to peers.
The NPDC will work with professionals from the Centre for Autism Research in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to establish and promote the provision of high quality programs and the use of evidence-based practices for learners with ASD and their families. The contract will support intensive didactic and site-based professional development in the United States and regular follow up and site visit in Saudi Arabia.
This project conducted a process evaluation and short-term outcome evaluation of Miami-Dade County's Quality Counts initiative, a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS)and professional development initiative.
The purpose of this project was to work collaboratively with Quality Counts leaders and stakeholders to revise their logic model and discuss issues related to validating Quality Counts.
This project was a randomized control trial of the Partnerships for Inclusion (PFI) model of assessment-based, individualized, on-site consultation. The evaluation study was called QUINCE (Quality Interventions for Early Care and Education). Quality consultants from 24 community agencies in five states (California, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and North Carolina) participated as well as 108 child care teachers, 263 FCC home providers, and 710 children.
The purpose of this collaborative partnership is to bring together the expertise of three research centers from top-tier research universities for the purpose of (a) understanding the science behind how racism impacts the lives of young children of color and (b) developing tools to communicate this impact to people who are making daily decisions on behalf of the well-being of children—their parents, educators, clinical practitioners, and policymakers.
FPG will collect data using our Snapshot tablet application during one day-long observation in fifty of the Winston-Salem Forsyth County School District’s pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classrooms. FPG will provide staff development for school and district personnel on the use of Snapshot data and other data for school improvement.
Reliability training on the Inclusive Classroom Profile was provided to support the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Early Education Department in building the capacity to assess inclusive classroom quality in early childhood programs for the purpose of guiding program improvements.
The purpose of this project is to provide DCDEE with expertise in research and analysis related to short- and long-term policy questions focused on young children’s education and development.
Through the Research-Policy and Practice Collaboration, FPG will develop structures to initiate working toward project goals and develop plans for expanding this work to educate/co-create learning between academia and policy practice in service of career advancement/efficacy. FPG will also review research and conduct analyses as directed by the Division to inform evidence-based decision-making at the state level, educate the public, and guide future efforts designed to support young children and families. Finally, FPG will provide coordination support for the B-3 Interagency Council and the B-3 Interagency Council planning team.
The RI-Asthma Integrated Response (RI-AIR) Asthma Care Implementation Program (ACIP) is a comprehensive system of identification, screening, and intervention for pediatric asthma. We aim to demonstrate that RI-AIR ACIP is a replicable, evidence-based, and cost-saving model that improves asthma outcomes for children at most risk, and can be disseminated to other urban communities to address asthma disparities.
The purpose of this multi-organization partnership is to leverage existing collaborations, expertise, and work to bolster all three partnering organizations’ activities to mitigate the impacts of this double pandemic – COVID-19 and racism – on Black families with children, birth to age 5.
The San Diego County Office of Education is seeking support for the capacity development of their county office staff in best practices of implementation science to support implementation of improvement strategies within their differentiated system of support for local education agencies. The National Implementation Research Network will provide a hybrid model of onsite and virtual training, coaching, and consultation supports for identified San Diego County Office of Education staff comprising an implementation team.
The National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) will partner with the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption (DFTA) to build the capacity of DFTA staff to integrate implementation science into their technical assistance approach for Wendy's Wonderful Kids (WWK) scaling states to promote effective implementation of WWK and to integrate and sustain the model into adoption services so that intended outcomes can be achieved.
The main objective of this project is to provide a more nuanced understanding of associations between school characteristics, classroom processes, and students’ language, academic, executive function, and social skills between prekindergarten and grade 1 (PK-1).
The main objective of this project is to provide a more nuanced understanding of associations between school characteristics, classroom processes, and students’ language, academic, executive function, and social skills between prekindergarten and grade 1.
This study examined how selected youth, peer, family, and school factors serve as risk and protective factors for African American youth’s school competence during the transition to high school.
This project will provide support for a process to enhance the curriculum at Northampton Community College by incorporating evidence-based practices and content.
The current project is designed to improve outcomes of juvenile justice youth who have been incarcerated or under community supervision. The Impact Center at Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute will provide implementation science and active implementation support training and technical assistance for local juvenile justice jurisdictions to improve their outcomes for youth in confinement and under community supervision.
The Self-Regulation Skills for Success Study (SRSS) is an Institute of Education Sciences funded randomized controlled trial of the Incredible Years© child group treatment program with supplemental intervention supports including recess coaching, teacher consultation and training, and parent education meetings.
The Children's Trust of South Carolina is planning to scale-up the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program system of interventions in several South Carolina communities. FPG's Implementation Capacity for Triple P (ICTP) project team, already working to support a similar statewide Triple P initiative in North Carolina, is providing active implementation support and implementation science guidance to help the South Carolina Triple P project become successful and sustainable.
Southeast Raleigh Promise (SER) seeks to answer the question: “What does it take to improve quality of early childhood programming and workforce in their participating child care centers?” The National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) within Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute will conduct an implementation study to answer this question and provide consultation supports in the use of the data collected for continuous improvement purposes.
This study compares segmental and prosody/voice features and speech intelligibility and aims to identify potential mechanisms underlying individual differences in speech intelligibility of boys with FXS, Down syndrome (DS), and typical development (TD) to determine whether individual differences in speech production relate to FXS specifically or to MR in general.
The purpose of this administrative supplement is to enhance the efficiency and completeness of the acoustic and perceptual data collection of the parent grant, Speech of Young Males with Fragile X Syndrome. The primary objective of the parent grant is to determine segmental and suprasegmental features of speech production that influence intelligibility in boys with fragile X and Down syndromes.