Learn about the most recently awarded active external research grant awards awarded to faculty in the College of Education.
Esther Prins, professor of education (lifelong learning and adult education), Anna Kaiper-Marquez, associate director of Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy (ISAL) and assistant teaching professor of education (adult education), Carol Clymer, associate teaching professor of education and co-director of ISAL, and Elisabeth McClean, adjunct assistant teaching professor of education, are co-principal investigators (PIs) on a 17-month project, “Addressing the needs of incarcerated parents and their minor children: evaluation benefits and process of supplemental virtual reality programming” that has been awarded $138,379 from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.
This project consists of an evaluation team with the Penn State Edna Bennett Prevention Research Center (PRC) and the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy. The team will provide a process evaluation on the implementation and integration of virtual reality (VR) to the InsideOut Dad program for incarcerated fathers and the Parenting Inside Out program for incarcerated mothers in four Pennsylvania State Correctional Institutions and the use of a VR “adventure experience” during in-person or video/Zoom-based visits with their children. The PI of the project is Sarah Chilenski, associate research professor in PRC.
Information about external grant awards is provided by the College of Education Research Office. Click here for information about all active research projects in the college.