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Community Practice Partnerships in Early Childhood

Dana Miller-Cotto - Professor, Education

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

The Community Practice Partnerships project seeks to build sustained relationships between the research team and organizations serving children and families throughout the Bay Area, including preschools, children’s museums, community organizations, and other informal learning spaces. These partnerships will create opportunities for researchers and community practitioners to learn from one another...

 Education, Cognition & Psychology

Determining how context shapes children's executive function performance.

Dana Miller-Cotto - Professor, Education

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Executive function, or our ability to hold information in mind, ignore distractions, and shift between goals, predicts many important outcomes in life, including educational outcomes and social development. Research indicates that there are differences in how children display executive function skills across race/ethnicity and socio-economic status. There is...

 Education, Cognition & Psychology

Examining the role of strategy use in children's problem solving skills.

Dana Miller-Cotto - Professor, Education

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This online study examines how children ages 8–10 use external supports to manage the demands of learning and problem solving. “Cognitive offloading” occurs when people reduce demands on memory or attention by using tools or actions outside the mind—for example, writing information down, drawing a representation, using fingers...

 Education, Cognition & Psychology

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