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Tues April 24
Doing and Becoming: Extracurricular Activity Participation and its Links to Positive Outcomes for Adolescents
Renowned scholar, Dr. Jacque Eccles, will present her research on mechanisms of adaptive adolescent development. Dr. Eccles will focus on three key areas: (1) the relation between participation in structured leisure activities and positive youth development, (2) associations between extracurricular activity involvement and educational and risky behavioral outcomes in adolescence and early adulthood, and (3) possible mediating mechanisms of these relations. She will discuss how processes linked to identity formation, peer group membership, and attachment to nonfamilial adults, may mediate the development of critical short- and longer-term adolescent and early adult outcomes.
Dr. Eccles is the McKeachie Collegiate Professor of
Psychology and director of the Gender and Achievement Research Program at the University of Michigan.
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Tues Jan 30
Making Schools Accountable: Effects on Students and Schools
Current trends in education policy hold principals, teachers and students accountable for academic performance. School vouchers are used to provide market-based accountability, and No Child Left Behind provides test-based accountability. But do these policies actually improve student achievement?
Dr. Cecilia Rouse, an expert in the economics of education, will review the motivation behind these policies and the recent empirical evidence of their effects on school policy and student outcomes. Dr. Rouse is the Theodore A. Wells ‘29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
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Thur Oct 11
An Ecological Approach to Children's Mental Health Interventions: What we know and its implications for public policy
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