Faculty
DAPS faculty represent a wide variety of expertise and research interests. Their research projects provide students with exemplary training in the field, from research on belonging and well-being to neuroscience and cognition. DAPS faculty study processes from early childhood to young adulthood in family, school, and community settings.
This page provides an overview of faculty research interests. To view faculty biographies, learn more about their research, and see a list of their recent publications, please visit their individual faculty pages.
Ethnic-racial socialization, race-related stressors, community based intervention, psychological adjustment, family and school contexts, black adolescents and youth of color
Learning ecologies, family learning, collaborative learning, interest-driven learning, technologies for life-long learning
Motivation, belonging, self, stigma, intervention, political decision-making, bias, stereotyping, change through time
Purpose, lifelong learning, human development, character.
Psychometrics, quantitative methods, item response theory, applied statistics
Early childhood policy, early childhood professional development, family-based interventions, community-based participatory research, stress neurobiology.
Artificial intelligence, agent-based systems, models of early childhood learning, AI-assisted programming pedagogy, motivation, curiosity
Adolescence, ethnic racial identity, biculturalism, community based intervention, culture as treatment, suicide prevention
Data literacy, AI literacy, data science education, STEM education, learning technologies, design of curricula and learning experiences
Special education, intellectual disabilities, literacy, post-secondary transition, teacher education
Measuring educational inequalities, socio-emotional learning, sample design, randomized control trials, policy evaluation
Educational neuroscience, reading development, math development, executive function, research-practice partnerships
Self-regulation, executive functions, approaches to learning, stress physiology, parenting, early childhood home and education experiences, assessments
Second language learning and teaching, child bilingualism, risk & resilience among immigrant children and youth, school partnership/community research, racialized equity labor, positive psychology
Socio-cultural foundations of learning, computer-supported collaborative learning, computational thinking, AI in education, intelligent social agents, video research & learning, virtual and augmented reality
Testing, assessment, classroom assessment
STEM higher education, instructional design, diversity and equity in learning environments, AI in education, educational technology, teaching and learning scientific problem-solving
Instructional methods, transfer of learning and assessment, mathematical development, teachable agents, cognition, and cognitive neuroscience.
Language and literacy development and instruction, early childhood and elementary education, using technology to support language and literacy, teacher education and professional development
Assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse populations, english learners, test design, test translation and adaptation, sociolinguistics in education, trans-semiosis, equity in international assessment
Equitable learning design, AI in education, science education, human computer interaction, human centered AI
Higher education, workplace learning, AI in education, cognition, human learning, design of learning environments, knowledge modeling
Adolescence, Child Development, Diversity and Identity, Equity in Education, Immigrants and Immigration, Parents and Family Issues, Psychology, Race and Ethnicity
Brain development, reading, dyslexia, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), assessment, dyslexia screening, brain plasticity