Jennifer Frank
Assistant Professor of Education; Senior Research Associate, PRC
308 Cedar Building
814-867-3015
jlf51@psu.edu
Current Projects
Longitudinal Effectiveness of Communities That Care on Reducing Youth Risk Factors
Stress, Self-Regulation, and Psychopathology in Middle Childhood
An Epidemiological and Longitudinal Study of Rural Child Literacy Trajectories (Family Life)
Project RESPECT: A Proposal to develop the Responding in Emotionally Supportive and Positive Ways in Educational Communication Skills Training program
Promoting Adolescent Well Being Through Emotion Regulation Skills Instruction
Early Life Stress and the Environmental Origins of Disease: A Population-based Prospective Longitudinal Study of Children in Rural Poverty (Family Life Project)
Recent Publications
Using virtual role-play to enhance teacher candidates’ skills in responding to bullying.
Schussler, D. L., Frank, J. L., Lee, T. K. & Mahfouz, J. (2017). Using virtual role-play to enhance teacher candidates’ skills in responding to bullying. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 25(1), 91–120.
Impacts of the CARE for Teachers program on teachers’ social and emotional competence and classroom interactions.
Jennings, P. A., Brown, J. L., Frank, J. L., Doyle, S.L., Oh, Y., Tanler, R., Rasheed, D., DeWeese, A., DeMauro, A. A., Cham, H., & Greenberg, M. T. (2017). Impacts of the CARE for Teachers program on teachers’ social and emotional competence and classroom interactions. Journal of Educational Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0000187
Coding semi-structured interviews: Exmaining coaching calls within the CARE for Teachers program
DeWeese, A., Jennings, P. A., Brown, J. L., Doyle, S. L., Davis, R. T., Rasheed, D. S., Frank, J. L. & Greenberg, M. T. (2017). Coding semi - structured interviews: Examining coaching calls within the CARE for Teachers program. SAGE Research Methods Cases, Part 2. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473958319