Lynch School Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology faculty and graduate students were among the presenters at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) held in April 2009 in Denver, Colorado. More than 30 Lynch School faculty members and graduate students presented at the conference. According to the SRCD website, "the purposes of the Society are to promote multidisciplinary research in the field of human development, to foster the exchange of information among scientists and other professionals of various disciplines, and to encourage applications of research findings."
Rebekah Levine Coley (Chair). Parsing Parental Knowledge: What Produces, Affects, and Responds to Parental Knowledge in Families With Adolescents? Paper Symposium.
Rebekah Levine Coley, Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, Holly S. Schindler. Do Fathers' and Mothers' Knowledge Predict or Respond to Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors? In Rebekah Levine Coley (Chair), Parsing Parental Knowledge: What Produces, Affects, and Responds to Parental Knowledge in Families With Adolescents? Paper Symposium.
Darcy B. Mitchell, Amanda Cannarella, Penny Hauser-Cram. Early Mastery Motivation as a Predictor of Later Behavior Problems in Adolescents With Developmental Disabilities. Poster Session.
Joanne Kersh, Penny Hauser-Cram. Explaining Sibling Relational Warmth in Families of Adolescents With Developmental Disabilities. Poster Session.
Helena Pan Mawdsley. Parents' Perceptions of the Transition From Early Intervention to Preschool. Poster Session.
Beth M. Casey, Julie Bassi, Elizabeth Pezaris. Can Gender Differences in Adolescents' Block Constructions be Eliminated Through Explicit Instructions on How to Build? In David H. Uttal (Chair), How Malleable Is Spatial Skill? What We Can Change and What We Can't. Paper Symposium.
Penny Hauser-Cram (Chair). Fathers' Experiences in Parenting a Child With a Developmental Disability. Paper Symposium.
Penny Hauser-Cram, Marji Erickson Warfield, Darcy B. Mitchell. Do Things Get Better or Worse? Changes in the Well-Being of Fathers of Children With Developmental Disabilities. In Penny Hauser-Cram (Chair), Fathers' Experiences in Parenting a Child With a Developmental Disability. Paper Symposium.
Maria Bartini, Marlene Jacobs Sandstrom, Damian Bebell. Gender and School Differences in Internet Aggression Among Middle School Students. Poster Session.
Ligia E. Gomez Franco, Marina Vasilyeva. Lexical Skills of Bilingual Children: The Evidence for Context-Dependent Performance. Poster Session.
Jennifer L. Carrano, Rebekah Levine Coley, Jacqueline V. Lerner. Resilience in Low-Income Urban Youth: An Ecological Systems Approach. Poster Session.
Paul Poteat, Dorothy Lynn Espelage. Willingness to Remain Friends with Lesbian and Gay Peers after Disclosure. In Stephen T. Russell (Chair), Out in High School: Implications for Peer Groups and Adjustment. Paper Symposium.
Yibing Li, Erin Phelps, Richard M. Lerner, Jacqueline V. Lerner. Educational Expectations and Academic Achievement in Adolescence: School Engagement and Intentional Self-Regulation as Mediators. In Christy Miller Buchanan (Chair), Mechanisms of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies During Adolescence. Paper Symposium.
Marina Vasilyeva, Heidi R. Waterfall, Perla Blanca Gamez. The Examination of Cross-Linguistic Structural Priming in Bilingual Children. In Micah B. Goldwater and Malathi Thothathiri (Chairs), Using Structural Priming to Reveal Developing Linguistic Representations. Paper Symposium.
Kristin M. Wieneke, Eric Dearing, Mary E. Walsh. The Consequences of Classroom Socioeconomic Status for Children's Achievement. In Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal (Chair), Early Achievement Disparities by Race/Ethnicity and Social Class: Strengthening our Understanding of Process. Paper Symposium.
Richard M. Lerner, Jacqueline V. Lerner, Erin Phelps. Positive Youth Development and Adolescents' Community Contributions: Findings from the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development. In Lonnie R. Sherrod, Models of Civic Development. Paper Symposium.
Christina Cipriano, Eric Dearing. Do Increases in Parent Encouragement of School Promote Children's Achievement? Poster Session.
Heather J. Bachman, Rebekah Levine Coley, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale. Is Maternal Marriage Beneficial for Low-Income Adolescents? In Heather J. Bachman (Chair), Do Maternal Marital Transitions Promote Positive Outcomes for Children and Youth? Paper Symposium.
Colleen M. Ganley, Beth M. Casey, Eric Dearing, Marina Vasilyeva, Michele Tully Tine. Spatial and Numerical Predictors of Measurement Performance. Poster Session.
Colleen M. Ganley. Differences in Predictors of Math and Science Performance for Eighth Grade Boys and Girls. Poster Session.
Selva Lewin-Bizan, Rebekah Levine Coley, Eric Dearing. Paternal Involvement and Children's Behavioral Evolvement: Differences Among Low- and Middle-Income Families. In Selva Lewin-Bizan (Chair), Influences on Children's Cognitive and Behavioral Trajectories: Parenting and Contextual Factors. Paper Symposium.
Rebekah Levine Coley, Selva Lewin-Bizan, Jennifer L. Carrano. Do Early Parenting and Socioeconomic Resources Promote Low-Income Children's Long-Term Cognitive Skills? In Selva Lewin-Bizan (Chair), Influences on Children's Cognitive and Behavioral Trajectories: Parenting and Contextual Factors. Paper Symposium.
Yibing Li, Alicia Doyle Lynch, Erin Phelps, Wei Zhang, Jacqueline V. Lerner, Richard M. Lerner. The Role of Peer Relationships on the Development of School Engagement in Early Adolescence. In Alicia Doyle Lynch (Chair), Academic Achievement and Engagement in Adolescence: The Role of Peer Relationships. Paper Symposium.
Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, Rebekah Levine Coley, Carolina Maldonado-Carreño, Christine P. Li-Grining, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale. Child Care and the Socioemotional Development of Economically Disadvantaged Children in Middle Childhood. In Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal (Chair), Everyday Child Care Experiences of Economically Disadvantaged Preschoolers: Descriptions and Implications. Paper Symposium.
Michele Tully Tine. Establishing SES Differences on Working Memory Tasks: One Step Closer to Narrowing the Achievement Gap. Poster Session.
Erik P. Goldschmidt, Mary E. Walsh. The Role of Social Competence in the Relationship between Classroom Behaviors and School Engagement. Poster Session.
Ashley Cynthia Woodman, Penny Hauser-Cram. Mothers' Desire for Autonomy for Their Adolescents With Developmental Disabilities. Poster Session.
Joan Lucariello, Allison G. Butler, Michele Tully Tine. Harnessing Social Cognitive Resources in Instruction on Reading Comprehension. In Mary J. Thelander (Chair), Engaging Children's Social Cognition for Literacy Instruction. Paper Symposium.
Edmond P. Bowers, Marina Vasilyeva. The Relation between Teacher Input and the Lexical Growth of Preschoolers in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms. Poster Session.
Ligia E. Gomez Franco, Marina Vasilyeva. Exploring the Challenges of Learning Prepositions by ELL Students. Poster Session.