K-12 teachers are facing an extraordinarily challenging time as our schools recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. To lend support to teachers in this difficult professional environment, this study aims to discover how archives and special collections can make online materials maximally accessible and useful for K-12 teachers. Using semi-structured interviews with ten K-12 teachers and website usage data from the "On the Books" library guide, this study will gather data about how teachers find, interact with, and teach with the online resources for primary source instruction developed by Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The findings will be considered to make recommendations for some ways that special collections librarians can better serve this group of patrons with online teaching resources.
The goals of this research are to: (1) understand how hearing develops throughout the lifespan; (2) determine the factors associated with successful speech, language, and hearing outcomes for individuals spanning a wide range of ages and abilities; and (3) advance auditory assessment practices for both neurotypical and diverse populations.
This project will investigate how different types of search engines (e.g. Google) and generative AI systems (e.g. chatGPT) may help users when conducting information-seeking tasks. Our results will inform the design of search tools and increase our understanding of how generative AI systems can be integrated with search tools to assist users.
To further understand the perspectives and health literacy of parents of children with chronic medical conditions before their child transitions from pediatric to adult care
We are surveying and interviewing people about their views on research that seeks to understand how a person's DNA may influence the things they do and achieve.
The purpose of this research study is to see what professional theaters in the United States are doing to address affordability concerns.
The Child Development Research Registry (CDRR) links families with researchers who are conducting projects on child development at UNC. Parents in the Triangle region of North Carolina (Wake, Durham, Chatham, Orange, and Alamance counties) are invited to enroll their babies and typically developing children in this registry.
The purpose of this study is to examine how resting brain activity is related to sleep behaviors and reactions to drinking alcohol.
We are interested in better understanding the experiences of a diverse group of individuals of South Asian descent with their body image and eating patterns, including what factors are associated with body dissatisfaction and disordered eating and which factors may be protective.
This research aims to understand the challenges and opportunities that are currently present in high school journalism education.