Introduction
The Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants program is designed to build research capacity in and knowledge of effective early childhood interventions with low-income children and families. The grant program does this by providing support for dissertation research conducted by graduate students working in partnership with local Head Start or Early Head Start programs.
The immediate goals of the grant program are to:
- support the completion of high quality research projects directed at the current concerns of Head Start and Early Head Start programs and policy makers;
- encourage research with Head Start and Early Head Start populations;
- emphasize the importance of developing working research partnerships with Head Start and Early Head Start programs, thereby increasing the effectiveness of the applied research work;
- promote mentor-student relationships that provide project supervision in the field and support students' professional development; and
- support active communication, networking and collaboration among the group of grantee graduate students, their mentors, and policymakers.
The FY2018 Head Start Graduate Student Research Scholars are:
Graduate Student |
Project Title |
University |
Principal Investigator/ Faculty Mentor |
Sunah Hyun |
Examination of Chinese Immigrant Parents' Beliefs about Children's Social Development Through Play: A Mixed Methods Explanatory Sequential Study |
Tufts College |
Dr. Christine McWayne |
Robert C. Carr |
Head Start Impacts Before and After the Transition to Kindergarten: The Moderating Role of Kindergarten Classroom and School Contexts in Eastern North Carolina |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Dr. Lynne Vernon-Feagans |
Brooke Rumper |
Does it sink “¿Se hunde?”: Examining Impacts on Head Start Dual Language Learning Children’s Science Outcomes Across Languages |
University of Miami |
Dr. Daryl Greenfield |
Bridget Poznanski |
Examining Positive Behavioral Supports for Children with Challenging Behaviors Across Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Head Start Settings |
Florida International University |
Dr. Katie Hart |