Our faculty and research associates engage in research across disciplines and fields to advance knowledge and solve some of the most important educational problems in North Carolina and beyond. As globally-recognized experts, they are transforming the practice of teaching, learning and leading.

Why Our Research Matters

We transform teaching and learning environments
across the lifespan.

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We improve technology enhanced learning and teaching.

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We innovate leadership development, educational policy and evaluation.

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We increase access and pathways for success for all learners.

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We foster community based learning and PK-16 partnerships. 

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Our faculty and researchers are addressing pressing educational problems. Their areas of strength include: 

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How Can Educators Design High-quality Distance Learning Experiences? Assistant Professor Ela Castellanos-Reyes Discusses Resources, Structure and Free Tools

Online learning can offer a variety of advantages to learners, especially nontraditonal students, and NC State College of Education Assistant Professor of Learning, Design, and Technology Ela Castellanos-Reyes says educators using online learning platforms can enhance the experience by embracing available resources and create engaging learning environments for students to be successful.

Why Is It Important for Students to Understand How Scientific Decisions are Made? ‘If You Don’t Understand How Scientists Decide What Makes One Claim More Believable, Then It’s Actually Very Hard to Understand Science,’ Says STEM Education Department Head William Sandoval

For William Sandoval, head of the Department of STEM Education in the NC State College of Education, when preparing K-12 students to engage with real-world science, developing the skills to become career scientists is not nearly as important as helping them to engage with the science that will occur all around them in their everyday lives.

How Can Teachers Integrate New Technologies Like AI Into the Classroom? ‘Be Open Minded and Take Risks,’ Says Friday Institute for Educational Innovation Executive Director and NC State College of Education Associate Dean for Translational Research Krista Glazewski

For more than 20 years, Friday Institute Executive Director and NC State College of Education Associate Dean for Translational Research Krista Glazewski has studied how complex problem solving can be supported through new, emerging and foundational technologies. Now, for the first time in her career, Glazewski said available technologies are finally catching up to practices and pedagogies that researchers and educators have envisioned.

Research Centers and Institutes

William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation

Our Friday Institute conducts research, develops educational resources, provides professional development programs for educators, advocates to improve teaching and learning and helps inform policy-making.

Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research

The Belk Center develops community college leaders as well as conducts and disseminates research to address student success challenges facing community college leaders and policymakers.

research news

Assistant Professors Rawn Boulden, Brean’a Parker and Rolanda Mitchell to Impact 10,000 Students Using $4.4M Grant to Train School-based Mental Health Professionals  for N.C. Schools

For many K-12 students, schools serve as the only viable setting in which they are able to access mental health care. However, many districts across North Carolina and the nation are facing a significant shortage of school-based mental health professionals. It’s an issue that Assistant Professors of Counseling and Counselor Education Rawn Boulden, Brean’a Parker and Rolanda Mitchell are working to address through a new grant-funded project.

Assistant Professor of Literacy Education Jackie Relyea Receives Jerry Johns Promising Researcher Award from the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers

Jackie Relyea, an assistant professor of literacy education in NC State’s College of Education, has received the Jerry Johns Promising Researcher Award from the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER).

Two Projects Funded through College of Education’s New Innovation Fellows Program Will Address Future Teachers’ Wellbeing, Use Technology to Improve Literacy Outcomes

College of Education researchers are working to improve future teachers’ wellbeing and harness new technology to address literacy outcomes through two projects funded by the NC State College of Education’s Innovation Fellows Program.

Karen Hollebrands, Ph.D.

Associate Dean for Research and Innovation
kfholleb@ncsu.edu

Research Development Office

We offer a wide range of pre-award and post-award services.

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