Gwen Nugent

The purpose of this study is to replicate an IES-funded efficacy study of INSIGHTS into Children's Temperament with a different sample and in a different context - rural Nebraska. INSIGHTS is a temperament-based emotional and behavioral skills intervention with student, teacher, and parent components that has been found to improve the quality of kindergarten and 1st grade classroom environments in inner city schools and reduce disruptive behavior, improve attention skills, and improve readin...

The National Center for Research on Rural Education (R2Ed) conducted a focused program of research on teacher professional development to improve instruction and support student achievement in reading and science in rural schools. The center also engaged in two related sets of studies: the first explored potential moderating effects of the rural context on early school success and the second investigated statistical and methodological solutions to the unique challenges posed by conducting re...