Translational Research
in Action
The Center on Education and Training for Employment translates research into practices that address societal problems.
The Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Movement
Actuating a vision where individuals, organizations, and other social institutions make racial equity a day-to-day priority.


Strategic Foci
Translational research, racial justice, online learning, and faculty engagement are strategic priorities for the center.
What We Do

Assessment
Our Assessment program has over 30 years of experience in the creation, refinement, and delivery of assessments through multiple formats. Our item writing process efficiently creates reliable and valid instruments to measure job knowledge, skills, and work competencies for students and employees. Using specifications created from a practice or occupational analysis, content standards regulated by a governing body, or other provisions, we...

Corrections Career Technical Education
Our associates support new career technical education teachers within rehabilitation and corrections through support services including assistance with license program enrollment, coursework continuation, classroom observation and feedback. Teachers are also assisted with the license process for the performance-based assessment required by the Ohio Department of Education...

Curriculum & Training
Our Curriculum and Training program includes content experts, trainers, and researchers who specialize in developing curriculum, instruction, and systems to support adult learning. We are committed to collaborating across educational and workforce settings because we envision a future where all learners reach their highest levels of achievement.

DACUM International Training Center
DACUM (an acronym for Developing a Curriculum) is an effective and relatively low-cost method of analyzing jobs and occupations used worldwide for more than 40 years and in over 58 countries through our DACUM International Training Center. This unique process offers components that successfully support job and occupational...

Equity, Engagement & Evaluation
Our Equity, Engagement and Evaluation program designs, implements and evaluates projects within health, education, and workforce development entities to achieve outcomes based on evidence-based quality standards in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

Family Engagement
Family engagement is families, education programs, and community partners working together to help children and youth learn, grow and prepare for their future. For many years, the Family Engagement program within our center worked with the Ohio Department of Education across projects to support schools in implementing practices to support family-school partnerships and received federal funding to become Ohio’s Statewide Family Engagement Center.

Online Learning
The Online Learning program is a center-wide initiative that leverages the Center on Education and Training for Employment’s expertise in learning design and educational technology. The center offers expertise in different subject areas, such as competency-based education, curriculum design & development, teacher education, and online education.

Professional Learning for Pre K-12 Educators
Educational Administration faculty from The College of Education and Human Ecology team with our center’s associates to deliver professional learning for PreK-12 educators. Prospective and current classroom teachers experience training to attain an initial teaching license, as well as advance to and maintain a...
Scholarly Work
Teaching by example and learning by doing: Multiple methods for teaching digital competencies to preservice teachers
Impact of the immediate release of clinical information rules on health care delivery to patients with cancer
State leadership to strengthen programs of family engagement in districts and schools
Investigating socialized knowledge communities: How computational thinking resources on Teachers-Pay-Teachers are impacting education
The effects of instructor participation in asynchronous online discussions on student performance: A systematic review
Refocusing the Translational Research Paradigm on Problem-solving and Community Engagement: Recommendations from a Critical Review of the Literature
Adopting distributed pair programming as an effective team learning activity: A systematic review
A Multi-tiered Approach to Family Engagement
Strategic Doing and the PROSPER Program Delivery System: A Case Study of the Translational Research Process
Implementation matters: A comparison study of career academy and comprehensive high school students’ engagement in college and career readiness activities

Teaching by example and learning by doing: Multiple methods for teaching digital competencies to preservice teachers
Hickey, S. (2023). Teaching by example and learning by doing: Multiple methods for teaching digital competencies to preservice teachers. In E. Podovšovnik, T. De Giuseppe, & F. Corona (Eds.), Handbook of Research...

Impact of the immediate release of clinical information rules on health care delivery to patients with cancer
Anyidoho, P. A., Verschraegen, C. F., Markham, M. J., Alberts, S., Sweetenham, J., Cameron, K., & Abu Hejleh, T. (2023). Impact of the immediate release of clinical information rules on...

State leadership to strengthen programs of family engagement in districts and schools
Berenbon, R. F., & McHugh, B. C. (2023). Do Subject Matter Experts’ Judgments of Multiple‐Choice Format Suitability Predict Item Quality? Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1111/emip.12570 Abstract: To assemble a high-quality test,...

Investigating socialized knowledge communities: How computational thinking resources on Teachers-Pay-Teachers are impacting education
Xu, F., Hewlett, D., & Correia, A.-P. (2023). Investigating socialized knowledge communities: How computational thinking resources on Teachers-Pay-Teachers are impacting education. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 34(1), 9-36. Abstract: The integration of...

The effects of instructor participation in asynchronous online discussions on student performance: A systematic review
Xie, J., & Correia, A.-P. (2023). The effects of instructor participation in asynchronous online discussions on student performance: A systematic review. British Journal of Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13350 Abstract: Asynchronous online discussion is...

Refocusing the Translational Research Paradigm on Problem-solving and Community Engagement: Recommendations from a Critical Review of the Literature
Julian, D. A., Baker, E., Correia, A.-P., Qi, R., Ross, M., & Walker, K. (2023). Refocusing the Translational Research Paradigm on Problem-solving and Community Engagement: Recommendations from a Critical Review...