Learning Research and Development Center

 

Intergroup Relations in Schools


Summary

Although our society is increasingly diverse, residential segregation often means that children have their first contact with those from other racial or ethnic groups in school. This project’s main goal is to increase our understanding of the consequences of the social composition of schools and classrooms for students’ academic and social outcomes. A second important goal of the project is to translate scholarly research on these topics into forms that are maximally useful to educators and policy makers.

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Projects

Behavioral Brain (B2) Research Training Program Funding

CaSe - 21st Century Research and Development Center on Cognition and Science Education

Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE)

City as Learning Lab (CaLL): Spreading Technological Fluency Through Creative Robotics

Cognitive Science Learning Laboratory

Collaborative Dialogue Agent for Peer Learning Interactions

Dialectical Interaction and Conceptual Learning

Dinosaurs in Their Time, Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Ecology of Educational Opportunities in Pittsburgh

Evaluation for Learning Group

How People Make Things, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Hypothesis Formation and Testing in an Interpretive Domain:

Improving Learning from Peer Review with NLP and ITS Techniques

Increasing College Retention

InformalScience

Institute for Learning (IFL)

Integrating Social and Cognitive Elements of Discovery and Innovation

Intergroup Relations in Schools

Knowledge Creation and Distribution in Online Groups

Learning from Design

Learning Policy Center

Measuring Classroom Discussions in Mathematics and Literacy

Model Assisted Reasoning in Science (MARS)

Newcomers as Sources of Team Learning

Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC)

PSLC Social Communicative Thrust

Psycho-Linguistic Underpinnings of Multilingualism (PLUM)

Reading and Language Group

Robust Vocabulary Instruction

Roles, Tools and Practices of Teachers within Inclusive Schools

Scaffolded Writing and Rewriting in the Discipline (SWoRD)

School Community Connections

Social Aspects of Classroom Computer Use

Systemwide Change for All Learners and Educators (SCALE)

Tutoring Scientific Explanations via Natural Language Dialogue

Understanding the Student and Community Impact of Arts-Based Youth Programs

University of Pittsburgh Center for Learning in Out-of-School Environments (UPCLOSE)