Sandra Soliday Hong

This project explored how individual children's engagement varied within classrooms and the degree to which variation in child engagement was associated with children's outcomes. Specifically, the research team (i) evaluated the degree to which the quality of children's engagement with teachers and academic content varied within individual children and within classrooms; (ii) related average quality of engagement at the child and classroom levels with child outcomes; and (iii) explored varia...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Postdoctoral Research Training Program in the Early Childhood Education Sciences provided five fellows experience in the design and evaluation of interventions for young children, as well as methods including clinical trial studies and quasi-experimental evaluations.