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Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often struggle with executive functions—tasks involving managing their time, completing their homework, turning in assignments, and planning for upcoming projects.
For years, a group of researchers from CHOP and Penn Medicine have been engaged in research to uncover effectiveness of interventions to reduce organizational skills deficits and homework problems for those children. The group's latest project is assessing an intervention known as Homework, Organization, and Planning Skills (HOPS) on organizational, time management and planning (OTMP) skills for middle school students.
Wendy Chan, an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education and lead statistician of the project, was eager to join the team.
“I was interested in the study because my own research focuses on experimental design, generalizability, and treatment effect heterogeneity,” she says, explaining that treatment effect heterogeneity refers to whether an intervention works differently for different groups of people.
This study gives her the opportunity to study the factors that predict improvements in student outcomes, Chan says. “We do not have findings yet, but I will be working with the lead PIs on the statistical analysis in the coming months,” she says.
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