Claire E. Cameron

This study will revise an existing measure of self-regulation and executive function skills for use as a school readiness screening tool for children from at-risk backgrounds. The existing Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders (HTKS) measure is a predictor of school achievement for diverse groups of children. However, English language learners (ELLs) and children from low-income backgrounds have not performed well on this measure. The research team will develop and validate a revised version of the meas...

The Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Education Sciences at the University of Virginia Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) trained six postdoctoral fellows via two research training rotations. The primary training rotation involved funded projects within CASTL. Among these projects were five randomized evaluation trials, quasi-experimental studies on large scale databases of state and national significance, planned comparison evaluations, natural history