PI: Daphna Bassok, Ph.D. Projects: Louisiana Kindergarten Readiness Study

PI: Anna D. Johnson, Ph.D. Collaborators: Rachel Gordon, Ph.D., Deborah A. Phillips, Ph.D., Carolyn J. Hill, Ph.D.Projects: Food assistance and food insecurity across early childhood, patterns, predictors, and consequences for child development; Exploration of how treatment impacts vary by quality of treatment administered. Acquired Skills: Latent Class Analysis; hierarchical linear modeling in the context of regression discontinuity.

PI: Rebecca M. Ryan, Ph.D.Collaborators: Amy Claessens, Ph.D.; Anna D. Johnson, Ph.D.; Abigail A. Marsh, Ph.D.; Ariel Kalil, Ph.D.; Kathleen Zoil-Guest, Ph.D.; Jane Mendle, Ph.D.Projects: The impact of family structure transitions on child outcomes and the role of timing, income, & child characteristics; the role of biological and social inputs in adolescent sexual behavior; the role of household structure in subsidy use; the role of neighborhood wealth in the expression of callous-unemotional traits in adolescents. Acquired Skills: STATA coding; familiarity with the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Fragile Families Child and Well-Being Study, the National Household Education Surveys, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Birth and Kindergarten Cohort datasets; practice in conducting mediation analyses, piecewise hierarchical linear modeling, hazard modeling, fixed effects and family fixed effects modeling, and multinomial logistic regression.

Mentored undergraduate students during their pre-student teaching experience including editing and assisting lesson planning, observing and providing feedback, and providing formative responses to journal entries.

Motivated 7th and 8th grade students to an average of 1.5 years of academic growth in one year, planned curricula for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade classes, including curriculum mapping.