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She is an applied researcher and program evaluator. As a result, she tends to engage in the scholarship of application. Her research heavily focuses on enhancing services and outcomes for children, youth, and families. Additionally, she sees value in knowledge development or the scholarship of discovery and scholarship of pedagogy. Overall her applied research agenda includes understanding and enhancing: (1) Parenting, (2) Instructional Practice, and (3) Youth and Family Serving Agencies.
She is the Director of a federally funded project that supports student-parents. She has presented at regional and national conferences to applied researcher and practitioner audiences. She has co-authored publications in academic and non-academic outlets. Some of her work is included in a national database intended to promote high quality research in early childhood. She also develops reports for funders and community stakeholders.
Dr. Palmer received the IUP Sponsored Research Program Award in 2023 for Outstanding Achievement in Public Service.
Dr. Palmer received the IUP Sponsored Research Program Award in 2021 for Outstanding Achievement in Curriculum and Instruction https://www.iup.edu/research/events/research-appreciation-week/past/2021/
Project Director
Project Director
Principal Investigator and Project Director for CCAMPIS at IUP. The CCAMPIS at IUP program services approximately 15-20 parents each year. Student-parents participate in parent education activities. Surveys from the parent education activities suggest that the information is useful and well received. Ninety-one percent of CCAMPIS parents demonstrate persistence and/or graduate.
As part of the CCAMPIS project, efforts are made to create institutional changes that make student-parents feel welcome. This is a lactation room created on campus to support breastfeeding student-parents.
Co-Investigator
Co-Investigator
Dr. Palmer co-authored the grant proposal and is a co-investigator on the project titled Pathways to Accessible Credit-Bearing Training (PACT) for early childhood educators at IUP. The project focuses on building community-university partnerships to better serve practitioners in early childhood settings. The partners review existing curriculum content and instructional delivery models to ensure adequate preparation for a nationally recognized credential (i.e., CDA) and that student needs are met. Dr. Palmer assists in the development of new post-secondary certificates along with revising/creating articulation agreements with local community colleges.
Program Evaluation and Applied Research (PEAR) Lab
Program Evaluation and Applied Research (PEAR) Lab
Outside of the classroom, she includes students in her evaluation and applied research work. Fifteen undergraduate students have worked in the PEAR lab since its creation in 2016. Students learn how to construct a literature review, develop assessment tools, adhere to institutional review board guidelines, collect data, manage data, perform descriptive data analysis, communicate orally with varied audiences, and write reports for varied audiences. The students gain valuable training and skills that are transferable to other positions.
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