Simons is a doctoral student in the Applied Developmental Psychology program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. I believe the kids benefit from the direct. Her research interests focus on ways to improve the academic success of children from low-income backgrounds.Ĭassandra L. Some of the retail programs are filled with so much fluff that its hard to actually GET to the actual problems. Her research examines the associations between early childhood classroom practices and emergent literacy development in diverse populations.īrittany Gay is a doctoral student in the Applied Developmental Psychology program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Rebecca Dowling is a doctoral student in the Applied Developmental Psychology program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Her research interests include schooling and educational development, children’s conceptions of mathematics and how those conceptions relate to home experiences and achievement, curriculum development and program evaluation. Metzger is a doctoral candidate in the Applied Developmental Psychology program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is particularly interested in home experiences of children often at risk for difficulties in school (e.g., immigrants, low income, ELL, minority groups). Her research focuses on ways to promote the educational success of children from different demographic backgrounds. She is the graduate program director of the Applied Developmental Psychology program. Susan Sonnenschein is a developmental psychologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.