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July 7, 2015 at 8:41 pm

Northeastern University Writes about Owens’ Education Department Grant

Dr. Julie Owens, Associate Professor of Psychology, was mentioned in a Northeastern University article on “Researchers to address critical need in tracking young students’ progress.”

North­eastern Uni­ver­sity researchers have received a four-​​year, $1.6 mil­lion grant from the U.S. Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion to develop a Web-​​based system for ele­men­tary school teachers to more easily track the progress of chil­dren in their class­rooms with emo­tional or behavior disorders.

Robert Volpe, an asso­ciate pro­fessor in the Depart­ment of Applied Psy­chology in the Bouvé Col­lege of Health Sci­ences, is leading the project. He said it addresses a crit­ical need for both teachers and their students—to effec­tively mon­itor the progress of stu­dents in class­rooms nation­wide with behav­ioral dis­or­ders like ADHD or emo­tional dis­or­ders like anx­iety or depres­sion. These issues, he said, affect stu­dents’ learning and increase their risk of drop­ping out of school and other long-​​term neg­a­tive outcomes.

The researchers also envi­sion their Web-​​based system being used to track stu­dent behav­iors that enable aca­d­emic suc­cess, such as study skills, inter­per­sonal skills, moti­va­tion, and social engagement….

Volpe and asso­ciate pro­fessor Amy Bri­esch, who is also in the Depart­ment of Applied Psy­chology, com­prise the North­eastern team leading the project. They are col­lab­o­rating with Julie Owens, a pro­fessor of psy­chology and co-​​director of the Center for Inter­ven­tion Research in Schools at Ohio University.

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