UCI School of Education Presentations
​SRCD Biennial Meeting - April 7-9, 2021
​

Faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate researchers from the UCI School of Education presented their research at the 2021 biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), held virtually from April 7 through April 9.

​School of Education research supports the SRCD goals to “stimulate and support research, to encourage cooperation among individuals engaged in the scientific study of child development, and to encourage applications of research findings.”

Presentations are listed below in alphabetical order. Abstracts and additional information can be accessed here.

Denise Alvarez, Alumna (B.A. '14)

• Low-income Fathers’ and Mothers’ Routine Physical Activity Relates to Infant’s Acquisition of Locomotive Skills

 
Daniela Alvarez-Vargas, third-year doctoral student

• Design and Analytic Features for Reducing Biases in Skill-Building Intervention Impact Forecasts

 
Drew Bailey, Associate Professor

• Changes in Using Dimensional Comparisons to Form Ability Self-Concepts Across Development
• Design and Analytic Features for Reducing Biases in Skill-Building Intervention Impact Forecasts

Rachel Baker, Assistant Professor

• Student-Parents and Policy in the Context of U.S. Higher Education 1990’s – 2010’s

 
Hongyu Bao, Undergraduate Researcher

• Design an Interactive E-book and Examine the Effectiveness of its Bilingual Feature

 
Andres Bustamante, Assistant Professor

• Adult Outcomes of Sustained Early Childcare and Education: A Pathway Out of Poverty

 
Gustavo Carlo, Professor

• Acculturative Stress and Internalizing Symptoms among Latinx Youth: The Moderating Role of Peer Support
• Bidirectionality in Longitudinal Associations of Adolescents’ Prosocial Behavior, Autonomy Support, and Emotional Support
• Cultural Socialization of Prosocial Behaviors in U.S. Latino/a Youth (invited talk)
• How do we Construct the Other? Using Science to Address the Social Justice Crisis (pre-conference event)
• The Mediating Roles of Moral Traits in the Links Between Expected Parental Reactions and Prosocial Behaviors
• Patterns of Parent-Child Conflict Discourse: Links with Ethnicity and Child Maladjustment in Middle Childhood
• Profiles of Risk and Parenting: Links with children’s socioemotional development
• Prosocial Pandemic: Emerging Adults’ Prosocial Behavior and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Relations among Parenting, Culture, and Prosocial Behaviors in U.S. Mexican youth: An Integrative Socialization Approach
• Stressors, Support Systems and U.S. Latinx College Student Wellbeing
• Trajectories of Maternal Supportiveness and Child Outcomes in African American, Hispanic, and European American Families
• Young in Times of COVID-19: A Cross-National Study on Prosocial Behavior in Late Adolescence

Yuhui Chen, Undergraduate Researcher

• Design an Interactive E-book and Examine the Effectiveness of its Bilingual Feature

 
Penelope Collins, Associate Professor

• Design an Interactive E-book and Examine the Effectiveness of its Bilingual Feature
• An‌ ‌Exploratory‌ ‌Study‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Bilingual‌ ‌Parent-Child‌ ‌Talk‌ ‌During‌ ‌E-book‌ ‌Shared‌ ‌Reading‌

 
Dana Conlin, second-year Doctoral Student

• Analyzing the Variation in Characteristics that Influence Refugee Parent—Preschool Teacher Communication
• Engaging in Interactive Book Reading: Experiences of Refugee Mother-Child Dyads
• Moving Past Doorway Interactions: Understanding refugee parent—preschool teacher communication while navigating linguistic and cultural barriers

 
Melissa Dahlin, fourth-year Doctoral Student

• Caregivers’ Experiences During COVID-19 and Their Young Child’s Behavior
• The Relationship Between how Mothers and Fathers Divide Tasks and Their Coparenting Relationship Quality

 
Dennis Dang, first-year Doctoral Student

• Inter-observer Reliability of the OLOS Observation System with Researchers and Practitioners

 
Anna-Lena Dicke, Project Scientist

• Expectancy-Value Beliefs and STEM Persistence Intention at the Intersection of Gender and College-Going Status

 
Greg Duncan, Distinguished Professor

• Associations Among Maternal Stress and Language and Socioemotional Development in a Low-income Sample
• Baby's First Years: The First Randomized Controlled Trial of Poverty Reduction in Early Childhood (panelist)

​Jacquelynne Eccles, Distinguished Professor

• Changes in Using Dimensional Comparisons to Form Ability Self-Concepts Across Development
• Expectancy-Value Beliefs and STEM Persistence Intention at the Intersection of Gender and College-Going Status
• Understanding the Developmental Experiences that Promote Prolonged Engagement in Adolescent Sporting Activities

 
Yannan Gao, Doctoral Candidate

• Expectancy-Value Beliefs and STEM Persistence Intention at the Intersection of Gender and College-Going Status

 
Zehra Gulseven, Postdoctoral Scholar

• Patterns of Out-of-School Activities and Relations to Prosocial Moral Behaviors

 
Kexing He, Research Assistant

• An‌ ‌Exploratory‌ ‌Study‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Bilingual‌ ‌Parent-Child‌ ‌Talk‌ ‌During‌ ‌E-book‌ ‌Shared‌ ‌Reading‌

 
Jin Kyoung Hwang, Postdoctoral Scholar

• Inter-observer Reliability of the OLOS Observation System with Researchers and Practitioners

 
Susanne Jaeggi, Professor

• “Because I just knew it!”: Examining Kindergarten Children’s Development and Use of Addition Strategies
• "Which Character is Leading?": Examining Latent Growth in Children's Accuracy During Tablet-Based Math Gameplay

 
Jade Jenkins, Assistant Professor

• Educational Opportunity in North Carolina: School District Achievement and Growth Between Third and Eighth Grade
• Student-Parents and Policy in the Context of U.S. Higher Education 1990’s – 2010’s

 
Tongya Jia, Research Assistant

• An‌ ‌Exploratory‌ ‌Study‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Bilingual‌ ‌Parent-Child‌ ‌Talk‌ ‌During‌ ‌E-book‌ ‌Shared‌ ‌Reading‌

Kenneth Tae Han Lee, Alumna (Ph.D. '16)

• COVID-19 Learning at Home: What Factors Support Game-based Educational Technology Learning in Young Children?

 
Bella Sarah Lerner, Lab Assistant

• Visual Support Mediates Pressure During Learning in Proportional Reasoning Instruction

 
Yining Li, Research Assistant

• Design an Interactive E-book and Examine the Effectiveness of its Bilingual Feature

 
Xiaohan Ma, Research Assistant

• An‌ ‌Exploratory‌ ‌Study‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Bilingual‌ ‌Parent-Child‌ ‌Talk‌ ‌During‌ ‌E-book‌ ‌Shared‌ ‌Reading‌

 
Esmeralda Martin, Researcher

• “It’s too Soon”: Mother’s and Father’s Media Rules and Limits for their 9-month-old Babies
• The Relationship Between how Mothers and Fathers Divide Tasks and Their Coparenting Relationship Quality

 
Yuan Meng, Undergraduate Researcher

• Design an Interactive E-book and Examine the Effectiveness of its Bilingual Feature

 
Maritza Morales-Gracia, third-year Doctoral Student

• Student-Parents and Policy in the Context of U.S. Higher Education 1990’s – 2010’s

 
Andrew Nguyen, Undergraduate Researcher

• Design an Interactive E-book and Examine the Effectiveness of its Bilingual Feature

Clarielisa Ocampo, Center for Educational Partnerships Undergraduate Researcher

• The Relationship Between how Mothers and Fathers Divide Tasks and Their Co-parenting Relationship Quality

 
Carranza Perla Ramos, third-year Doctoral Student

• Science Support for Latinx Adolescents: A Family Systems Approach

 
Stephanie Reich, Professor

• Adults’ Influence on Early Adolescents’ Digital Privacy Practices
• Caregivers’ Experiences During COVID-19 and Their Young Child’s Behavior
• Direct and Interaction Effects of Sensitive Parenting and Toddlers’ Social Skills in Low-Income Two-Parent Families
• How Perceptions of School Climate Relate to Early Adolescents’ Feelings of Belonging
• The Influence of Mothers’ and Fathers’ Executive Function on Parenting and Toddlers’ Language Skills
• “It’s too Soon”: Mother’s and Father’s Media Rules and Limits for their 9-month-old Babies
• Low-Income Ethnically Diverse Mothers’ and Fathers’ Emotion Socialization Strategies and Children’s Social Competence
• Low-income Fathers’ and Mothers’ Routine Physical Activity Relates to Infant’s Acquisition of Locomotive Skills
• Low-Income Fathers’ and Mothers’ “Serve and Return” Interactions with Infants: Link to Early Language Development
• The Mismatch Between Distance Learning and Early Adolescents’ Developing Needs
• Mothers’ and Fathers’ Engagement in a Parenting Intervention: Barriers and the Influence of Psychological Functioning
• Mothers’ and Fathers’ Parenting Stress, Education, Financial Strain and Parent-Child Play Interactions
• Parent engagement at home with children during a pandemic
• The Relationship Between how Mothers and Fathers Divide Tasks and Their Coparenting Relationship Quality
• “¡Uno, dos, tres!”: Latino Mothers’ and Fathers’ Math Talk With Their Toddlers

 
Jennifer Renick, fourth-year Doctoral Student

• How Perceptions of School Climate Relate to Early Adolescents’ Feelings of Belonging
• The Mismatch Between Distance Learning and Early Adolescents’ Developing Needs

 
Lindsey Richland, Associate Professor

• Developmental Trajectories of Higher-order Thinking Talk Differ for Typically-developing Children and Children with Brain Injuries
• Fully Worked Examples of Proportion Problems Promote Learning More than Partially Worked or No Examples
• Spontaneous use of past/future personal-narrative talk in the everyday home language of parents and 1-5-year-olds
• Visual Support Mediates Pressure During Learning in Proportional Reasoning Instruction

Nayssan Safavian, Project ScientistMaria Saval

• “It’s too Soon”: Mother’s and Father’s Media Rules and Limits for their 9-month-old Babies

 
Sandra Simpkins, Professor

• Latinx High Schoolers’ Science Self-Concept and Task Value and the Role of Parent-Youth Science Conversations
• Patterns of Out-of-School Activities and Relations to Prosocial Moral Behaviors
• Science Support for Latinx Adolescents: A Family Systems Approach
• STEM Gender Stereotypes Across High School: Links with Parents’ and Teachers’ Stereotypes to Adolescents’ Identity and Outcomes

 
Allison Starks, second-year Doctoral Student

• Adults’ Influence on Early Adolescents’ Digital Privacy Practices

 
Christine Starr, Postdoctoral Scholar

• STEM Gender Stereotypes Across High School: Links with Parents’ and Teachers’ Stereotypes to Adolescents’ Identity and Outcomes

 
Bolun Sun, Undergraduate Researcher

• Design an Interactive E-book and Examine the Effectiveness of its Bilingual Feature
• An‌ ‌Exploratory‌ ‌Study‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Bilingual‌ ‌Parent-Child‌ ‌Talk‌ ‌During‌ ‌E-book‌ ‌Shared‌ ‌Reading‌

Nestor Tulagan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

• Latinx High Schoolers’ Science Self-Concept and Task Value and the Role of Parent-Youth Science Conversations
• Transitions in Patterns of Mothers’ Educational Involvement Behaviors and Links to Adolescents’ Educational Attainment

 
Kanglan Tang, Undergraduate Researcher

• Design an Interactive E-book and Examine the Effectiveness of its Bilingual Feature

 
Deborah Lowe Vandell, Chancellor's Professor Emerita

• Adult Outcomes of Sustained Early Childcare and Education: A Pathway Out of Poverty
• Inter-observer Reliability of the OLOS Observation System with Researchers and Practitioners
• Patterns of Out-of-School Activities and Relations to Prosocial Moral Behaviors
• Retrospective versus Prospective Assessments of Childhood Parenting: Evidence from a 26-year Longitudinal Study
• Secure Base Script Knowledge Mediates The Link Between Early Parental Sensitivity And Depressive Symptoms

 
Sirui Wan, fourth-year Doctoral Student

• Changes in Using Dimensional Comparisons to Form Ability Self-Concepts Across Development
• Design and Analytic Features for Reducing Biases in Skill-Building Intervention Impact Forecasts

 
Fangyuan Xu, Research Assistant

• An‌ ‌Exploratory‌ ‌Study‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Bilingual‌ ‌Parent-Child‌ ‌Talk‌ ‌During‌ ‌E-book‌ ‌Shared‌ ‌Reading‌

 
Dandang Yang, fourth-year Doctoral Student

• Design an Interactive E-book and Examine the Effectiveness of its Bilingual Feature
• An‌ ‌Exploratory‌ ‌Study‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Bilingual‌ ‌Parent-Child‌ ‌Talk‌ ‌During‌ ‌E-book‌ ‌Shared‌ ‌Reading‌

 
Huanghao Yin, Research Assistant

• Design an Interactive E-book and Examine the Effectiveness of its Bilingual Feature

Mark Vincent Yu, Postdoctoral Scholar

• Secure Base Script Knowledge Mediates The Link Between Early Parental Sensitivity And Depressive Symptoms (conversation hour)

 
Elham Zargar, Doctoral Candidate

• Inter-observer Reliability of the OLOS Observation System with Researchers and Practitioners

 
Xinyi Zeng, Research Assistant

• Design an Interactive E-book and Examine the Effectiveness of its Bilingual Feature
• An‌ ‌Exploratory‌ ‌Study‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Bilingual‌ ‌Parent-Child‌ ‌Talk‌ ‌During‌ ‌E-book‌ ‌Shared‌ ‌Reading‌

 
Zhanpeng Zheng, Research Assistant

• Design an Interactive E-book and Examine the Effectiveness of its Bilingual Feature
• An‌ ‌Exploratory‌ ‌Study‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Bilingual‌ ‌Parent-Child‌ ‌Talk‌ ‌During‌ ‌E-book‌ ‌Shared‌ ‌Reading‌