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Menendez, David; Klapper, Rebecca E.; Golden, Michelle Z.; Mandel, Ava R.; Nicholas, Katrina A.; Schapfel, Maria H.; Silsby, Olivia O.; Sowers, Kailee A.; Sumanthiran, Dillanie; Welch, Victoria E.; Rosengren, Karl S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Parent-child conversations are important for children's cognitive development, children's ability to cope with stressful events, and can shape children's beliefs about the causes of illness. In the context of a global pandemic, families have faced a multitude of challenges, including changes to their routines, that they need to convey to their…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication
Robinson, Carly D.; Gallus, Jana; Lee, Monica G.; Rogers, Todd – Grantee Submission, 2019
It is common for organizations to offer awards to motivate individual behavior, yet few empirical studies evaluate their effectiveness in the field. We report a randomized field experiment (N = 15,329) that tests the impact of two common types of symbolic awards: pre-announced awards (prospective) and surprise awards (retrospective). The context…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Awards, Attendance, Incentives
Lyon, Aaron R.; Cook, Clayton R.; Duong, Mylien T.; Nicodimos, Semret; Pullmann, Michael D.; Brewer, Stephanie K.; Gaias, Larissa M.; Cox, Shanon – Grantee Submission, 2019
Background: Individual-level implementation determinants, such as clinician attitudes, commonly influence the successful adoption of evidence-based practices, but few explicit strategies have been tested with regard to their ability to impact these key mechanisms of change. This paper reports on an initial test of a blended, theoretically-informed…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Evidence Based Practice, Program Implementation, Social Influences