Healthy Attachment Promotion for Parents and Infants: Fathers Study
Our research involves investigating how low-income parents, especially fathers, are involved with their toddlers. We conduct in-home interviews with parents at baseline and 6 month follow-up as well as video-tape parents playing with their children. Duties include data collection (assisting on home visits), data entry, and project meeting attendance.
Recommended: We prefer students with Developmental Psychology or Child Development courses and/or experience working with (low-income) children and parents. Interest in attending graduate school in developmental psychology, social psychology, or human development is preferable.
Other: Compensation: This is an opportunity for undergraduate students to gain valuable training and practical experience conducting structured interviews with parents. This experience could be beneficial for acceptance into graduate school programs in human development, psychology and family studies. Up to 3 internship credits can be offered for this research assistant position.
Starting date: We’re looking for students for Fall 2006. If interested, please contact Stephanie Jolley, 301-405-7486, sjolley@umd.edu.
Thought Experiments in Mathematics Teaching
This project explores how practicing high school mathematics teachers think about what is feasible to do in classroom instruction and what sorts of moves, while mathematical, are not appropriate in classrooms.
Required: There
are two sorts of skill sets that would be useful.
a. Experience making 2-d computer animations. These animations are used as prompts
for teacher discussion.
Recommended: b. An interest in analyzing teacher dialogue for participaton in the recording, transcribing, and analyzing teacher conversations.
Other: The project is a joint project with a group at the University of Michigan. Animation work is under the direction of a staff member at the Michigan site.
In addition to the team at the University of Michigan, the Maryland team includes a postdoctoral fellow and two advanced doctoral students.
An Investigation of Child Temperament
The Child Development Lab is currently investigating temperament and emotional development in infants, children and adolescents. Students will be involved in visits with subjects at each of these ages. The scope of our research ranges from clinical interview to electrophysiology. In addition, students will assist with data entry and coding of behavioral data. Time requirements: 3 to 12 hours a week depending on visits and student schedule.
Required: Experience with working with infants or young children and interest in research.
Recommended: Familiarity with SPSS, MSWord and Excel. Library and internet research skills. *Interest in completing an honors thesis or attending graduate school.
Nathan Fox
Human Development
3404 Benjamin Building
301-405-2816 / fox@umd.edu
An examination of social development in monkeys to develop and provide support for assessment of non-human primate models of developmental psychopathology. This study employs neuroimaging, genetic, and psychophysiological techniques to investigate social, emotional, and cognitive development in monkeys. Students will be participating in coding videotapes, data management, literature searches, and other research related tasks. Time Requirements: 6-12 hours/week
Required: Ability
to work both independently and collaboratively.
-Interest in research as well as biopsychology, neuroscience, or primatology.
-Basic knowledge of Microsoft-based programs.
Note:
A successful applicant will possess a minimum 3.0 GPA and be a second-semester
freshmen, sophomore, or junior. Children's and Adolescents' Evaluations of Inclusion and Exclusion
Required: Our research involves investigating how children and adolescents
evaluate inclusion and exclusion of social groups. We have a range of projects
Recommended: Developmental Psychology or Child Development courses
and/or experience with working with children and adolescents. Interest in attending
graduate school in developmental psychology, social psychology, or human development
is preferable.
If interested, please contact Megan Clark Kelly, x58495 or mclark8@umd.edu.
Please email Khalisa Herman (kherman@umd.edu)
the following items:
-Resume (include year in school, GPA, major, references). -Schedule of availability
to work in the lab.
-Brief statement explaining your interest in the lab.
Melanie Killen
Human Development
3304L Benjamin Building
301-405-3176 / mkillen@umd.edu
for student research participation: Social reasoning about video games, Adolescents'
attributions of intergroup bias; Cultural influences on development;
Children's intergroup attitudes; Moral reasoning; Social development. Duties
include data collection (interviewing or surveying children and adolescents),
data entry,
data analysis, library research and data management.
Koraly Perez-Edgar
Human Development
4311 Benjamin Bldg.
301-405-2834 / kpe@umd.edu
This project takes a multi-faceted approach in studying the development of emotion band social behavior into adolescence, including the rise of psychopathology. These include cognition (e.g., attentional control), physiology (e.g., EEG), and temperament (e.g., behavioral inhibition). There are a number of subcomponents to the study and participants range in age from 14 to 16.
This project will involve approximately 6 hours per week. This is an excellent opportunity for those considering graduate study in Clinical or Developmental Psychology.
Please contact Koraly Perez-Edgar at kpe@umd.edu if interested.
Required: Proficiency with software such as MSWord and Excel. Persistence, good communication skills, attention to detail.
Steven Selden
Education Policy and Leadership
3112E Benjamin Building
301-405-3566 / selden@umd.edu
I am writing a book on the history of eugenics ("scientific racism") and American education. Tasks include identifying photographs and school textbooks dealing with eugenics (c. 1900-1940) from local libraries and archives, including the Library of Congress and the NIH library.
Recommended: Interest in history of science, ability to use 35 mm camera, knowledge of library archive services, concern for equity/equality issues.