Below is a listing of preconferences and special events taking place before and during the 2013 SRCD Biennial Meeting. For more information or to register for the pre-conference or event, please use the contact information provided.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Integrating Salivary Analytes into Developmental Science
Wednesday (AM SESSION CANCELLED) & 1:00pm - 5:00pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room 2A
Spit Camp! offers discussion of theoretical persectives; oral fluid as biological specimens; practical aspects of sample handling, collection and study design; basic immunoassay principles, and statistical considerations for analytical review.
Two sessions offered with limited seating, AM and PM.
Contact: jjewell@salimetrics.com to register or call 814-234-7748.
Working with Pathways to Desistance Data
CANCELLED
Workshop Goal: The goal of the workshop is to expose investigators to the Pathways to Desistance Study and its accompanying data sets. These data sets contain detailed information on 1,354 serious adolescent offenders followed for seven years after court involvement. They have relevance for a number of topics related to law and developmental psychology research, including risk assessment, perceptions of the risks of crime, and developmental trends. The purpose of the workshop is to encourage the use of these data sets for academic projects when the data becomes publicly available from The Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan.
Workshop Learning Objectives:
1. To describe the Pathways to Desistance study methods and sample
2. To describe the measures used over time
3. To discuss possible areas of investigation that the Pathways study might be useful for addressing and to provide specific data-related advice related to analyses relevant to these questions. Workshop participants are encouraged to prepare specific areas of exploration that they are interested in pursuing. The workshop is offered at no cost to attendees. We will cancel the workshop if fewer than 10 individuals are registered.
Questions or to Register: Carol Schubert, schubertca@upmc.edu or 412-647-4760
Introducing the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), 2009 Cohort
Wednesday 9:00am - 12:00pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room 611
This preconference workshop will provide an overview of the 2009 cohort of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES). Along with a discussion of the unique characteristics of this newest FACES cohort, the workshop will cover study design and methodology and introduce potential data users to technical issues associated with using the 2009 FACES data for secondary analysis.
FACES is an ongoing, longitudinal descriptive study of Head Start programs, its children and families using nationally representative samples and a battery of survey instruments and child assessments. FACES data are made available for secondary analysis through Child Care and Early Education Research Connections and are well-suited for use by graduate students exploring research opportunities, instructors interested in bringing large datasets of national scope into the classroom, and researchers analyzing the development of young children and their early childhood experiences.
A study description can be found at: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/resource/faces-2009-study-design
The FACES 2009 data will be made available for secondary analysis through Research Connections (www.researchconnections.org).
Contact: Johanna Bleckman, bleckman@umich.edu
Pathways to Success for Junior and Mid-Career Faculty of Color
Sponsored by the Asian, Black, Latino Caucuses, and the ERI Committee
Wednesday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room 211
Registration: $30 (Please register through SRCD's registration site)
*Cancel by April 1, 2013 (11:59 PM EST) for full refund of event ticket.
*Attendance will be capped at 24 Assistant Professors and 24 Associate Professors.
Note: To attend this pre-conference you must currently be a SRCD member. You also must be an Assistant or Associate Professor to attend this event.
This preconference focuses on promoting the career development of junior and mid-career faculty of color. It is designed to demystify the tenure and promotion process, help participants develop strategies for positioning their work and enhancing their career trajectories, and managing work and family. There will be a mix of presentations, small group discussions with peers and senior colleagues, and a mentoring lunch. [more information]
Attachment Pre-Conference
Wednesday 9:00am - 4:30pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room(s) 4C-1 (General Session) & 4C-2
No Therapy without Research, No Research without Therapy
This one day Attachment Pre-Conference will build on past meetings, with a singular focus on presentations and discussion that bridges developmental and clinical psychology, being pursued from an attachment perspective. The morning will be devoted to 10 or more brief talks from leaders in the field (and their doctoral or post-doctoral colleagues), with the afternoon devoted to multiple round table discussions with the leaders, who currently include Mary Dozier, Arietta Slade, Miriam Steele, Lenneke Alink. Lunch to be included in the cost of the day.
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Contact: Howard Steele, steeleh@newschool.edu
Early Childhood Surveys at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): The Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies (ECLS) and the National Household Education Survey Program (NHES) Data Users Workshop
Wednesday 9:00am - 5:00pm | Sheraton Seattle Hotel | Aspen, 2nd Floor
This seminar will provide an introduction to some of the most comprehensive early childhood education and care data resources in the nation, focusing on several nationally representative early childhood studies conducted by NCES, including the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998/99 (ECLS-K), the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), and the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) early childhood components. In addition, the new ECLS study of children who were in kindergarten in the 2010-11 school year (ECLS-K:2011) will be introduced, with details provided about the kindergarten and first-grade rounds of data collection, study components, and data access.
The ECLS-K permits the examination of the relationship between a wide range of family, school, classroom, and individual characteristics and children's development, learning, and school performance from kindergarten through eighth grade. The ECLS-B provides detailed information on children's early development, health, care, and education from birth through kindergarten entry. Oversamples in the ECLS-B offer a unique opportunity to analyze the early learning experiences of low and very low birth weight, twin, Asian/other Pacific Islander, and American Indian and Alaska Native children. The ECLS-K:2011 provides information on a nationally representative sample of kindergartners about a decade after the ECLS-K study in 1998. The ECLS-K:2011 includes many features of the ECLS-K study; however, the ECLS-K:2011 also includes an assessment of science knowledge and skills beginning in kindergarten and of children's executive function. The NHES surveys consist of multiple cross-sectional surveys focusing on children's early learning activities, school readiness, nonparental child care and early education arrangements, and parent and family involvement in education and allow analysts to study how these have changed since the early 1990s. The design of the NCES early childhood surveys enables researchers to use data from more than one source to examine early childhood issues. The seminar will provide information on the range of topics covered by each NCES study, the measures used across the studies, and the limitations of each data source.
During the seminar, study design and technical issues relevant to data use will be presented, and a computer demonstration of software that assists users in preparing data for analyses will be conducted. The overall goals of the seminar are to inform researchers about the NCES early childhood studies and describe what the databases can offer separately and in complement with each other. The seminar also highlights technical issues researchers must recognize to correctly analyze these data.
Participants will receive CDs that include digital copies of all slideshow presentations; handouts about the survey instruments; guides for using the datasets electronic codebook (ECB) software; links to the ECLS and NHES websites; and tables providing information on sample sizes, weighting and variance estimation, and other technical issues related to the data. They will also receive the NHES and ECLS public-use CD-ROMS, which contain the public-use data files, ECB software, and electronic versions of the survey instruments and users manuals.
NCES had the opportunity to conduct a similar pre-conference event at the 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011 Biennial SRCD Meetings. The prior seminars filled to capacity (35-50 attendees), so we would like to offer it again in 2013. This seminar is intended for advanced graduate students and faculty members from colleges and universities, and for researchers, education practitioners, and policy analysts from state and local education agencies and professional associations. Participants should have a solid understanding of basic statistical methods.
Contact: Gail Mulligan, Gail.Mulligan@ed.gov
Research on Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children
Wednesday 9:00am - 5:30pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room 3B
This annual event brings together researchers who are focused on advances our knowledge about the development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children.
Contact: srcddeaf@gmail.com
Peer Relations Pre-Conference
Wednesday 9:00am - 7:00pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room(s) 615/16 (General Session), 617, 618, 619, & 620
This full-day conference will feature four plenary sessions and short presentation/discussion session followed by a reception and student poster session. Plenary speakers include experts in youth peer relations and related fields: Thomas Boyce, Karen Bierman, Dov Cohen, and Jaana Juvonen.
For more information, please visit http://crmda.ku.edu/main/SRCD_Peer_Preconference (Registration will open Feb. 1, 2013)
Contact: Karin Frey, karinf@uw.edu or Noel Card, ncard@email.arizona.edu
Emotions Pre-Conferenece
Wednesday 12:30pm - 5:00pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room 2B
The Emotions Pre-conference focuses on state-of-the-art emotions research in child development. The pre-conference brings together students, faculty, and scientists across a diverse set of fields (e.g., biological, social, clinical) to discuss emotions topics in small discussion groups in addition to brief presentations of current research questions and results.
Contact: Coleen O'Neal, onealc01@umd.edu
Evolutionary Psychology Pre-Conference
Wednesday 12:00pm - 5:30pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room 4-C3
Child Development researchers seek to understand why children behave the way they do. There is a growing interest in using Evolutionary Psychology to frame whether or not children's behavior is adaptive. This preconference includes a series of speakers who will speak about cooperation and empathy, risky and delinquent behavior. A discussion panel will explore whether an evolutionary perspective enhances our ability to understand these behaviors.
Contact: Pat Hawley, phawley@ku.edu or Elizabeth Shirtcliff, eshirtcl@uno.edu
Workshop: Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling
Wednesday 1:00pm - 5:00pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room 204
Todd D. Little will lead a workshop on foundational topics in longitudinal structural equation modeling. Topics include planned missing designs, the (mis)use of difference scores to model change, and accelerated longitudinal models among others. His 2013 Guilford press book on this topic will be available for purchase and a book signing will follow.
Registration will open February 1st (go to crmda.KU.edu for details).
Contact: Todd Little, yhat@ku.edu
7th Religious and Spiritual Development Pre-Conference (CANCELLED)
Beginning with the 2001 SRCD meeting, I have organized and convened an excellent preconference event on religious and spiritual development. The agenda for each event has included addresses by 3-5 invited prominent scholars, research "snap talks" by several select graduate students, round-table discussions around shared interests, and, if space permits, a poster session including posters that will be presented at the regular conference as well as posters that will not be presented. Attendees range from eminent scholars to first-year graduate students; international scholars have frequently attended as well. This preconference has been a superb and stimulating event for the attendees, some of whom attend SRCD because of this preconference. I'm eager to continue this tradition that I began 13 years ago.
Contact: Chris Boyatzis, boyatzis@bucknell.edu
Face Processing Pre-Conference
Wednesday 1:00pm - 9:00pm | Sheraton Seattle Hotel | Cedar A, 2nd Floor
This preconference is open to anyone who is interested in face processing in infants, children, and adolescents with or without developmental abnormalities. The goal of this preconference is for researchers and their students from various labs in the world to present their current and preliminary work on any topics related to face processing (e.g., face recognition, categorization), share ideas, and discuss emerging theoretical and methodological issues.
Contact: Kang Lee, kang.lee@utoronto.ca
Asian Caucus Reception and Business Meeting
Wednesday 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room 3A
Contact: Tiffany Yip, tyip@fordham.edu
Black Caucus Business Meeting
Wednesday 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Sheraton Seattle Hotel | Kirkland
Thursday, April 18, 2013
SRHD Business Meeting and Reception
Thursday 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room 211
Contact: Amanda Harrist, amanda.harrist@okstate.edu
Arizona State University Reception
Thursday 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Sheraton Seattle Hotel | Ravenna ABC
Reception for colleagues and alumni from Arizona State University.
Contact: Richard Fabes, rfabes@asu.edu
Penn State University Reception
Thursday 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Sheraton Seattle Hotel | Cedar AB
Contact: Laureen Teti, lot1@psu.edu
University of Pittsburgh Reception
Thursday 8:00pm - 10:00pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room 206
Contact: Elizabeth, evotruba@pitt.edu
Center for Developmental Science Reception
Thursday 8:00pm - 10:00pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room 608
This reception is hosted for SRCD attendees who are or have been part of the CDS community, who are CDS alumni, supporters, researchers, and fellowship applicants.
Contact: Amy Briceno, briceno@unc.edu
Canadian Universities Reception
Thursday 8:30pm - 10:00pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room 3B
Contact: Jeff Bisanz, jeff.bisanz@ualberta.ca
Society for the Study of Human Development Party
Thursday 9:00pm - 11:00pm | Sheraton Seattle Hotel | Redwood AB
Contact: Willis Overton, overton@temple.edu
UCLA Champagne Toast & Reception
Thursday 9:00pm - 11:00pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room 308
Contact: Sandra Graham, graham@gseis.ucla.edu
University of Chicago Reception
Thursday 9:00pm - 11:00pm | Washington State Convention Center | Room 307
Contact: Jodi Khan, jodikhan@uchicago.edu
University of Minnesota Party
Thursday 9:00pm - 12:00am | Sheraton Seattle Hotel | Willow AB, 2nd Floor
University of Minnesota Institute of Child Development Annual SRCD Reception
Contact: Delores Mordorski, mordo001@umn.edu
Temple University Reception
Thursday 9:00pm | Sheraton Seattle Hotel | Aspen, 2nd Floor
Contact: Peter Marshall, peter.marshall@temple.edu
Friday, April 19, 2013
Reception held by NYU's Center for Research on Culture, Development, and Education
Friday 7:00pm - 12:00am | Sheraton Seattle Hotel | Aspen, 2nd Floor
Food and dancing hosted by the Center for Research on Culture, Development, and Education at New York University. Everyone is welcome!
Contact: Catherine Tamis-LeMonda, catherine.tamis-lemonda@nyu.edu
Developmental Sciences at UC Davis
Friday 7:00pm | Sheraton Seattle Hotel | Redwood A, 2nd Floor
Contact: Jennifer Gouine, jagouine@ucdavis.edu
Strengthening Families, Reducing Postpartum Depression, SIDS & Abuse With the 5 S's: Latest Research
Friday 7:00pm | Sheraton Seattle Hotel | Kirkland, 3rd Floor
A lecture and discussion among professionals who are or work with Happiest Baby educators....or those interested in beginning such programs. Such groups include the departments of health or child welfare of CO, CT, MA, MN, PA, OK, WY and numerous children's hospitals, university hospitals and military facilities.
Contact: Harvey Karp, dr.karp@thehappiestbaby.com
Connect with UConn Developmental
Friday 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Sheraton Seattle | Redwood B, 2nd Floor
University of Michigan Reception
Friday 9:00pm - 11:00pm | Sheraton Seattle | Willow B
Contact: Vonnie McLoyd, vcmcloyd@umich.edu
Saturday, April 20, 2013
WT Grant Informational Session
Saturday 2:20pm - 3:50pm | Sheraton Seattle | Greenwood, 3rd Floor
Contact: Irene Williams, iwilliams@wtgrantfdn.org
Questions? Contact Casey Irelan at biennialmeeting@srcd.org or (734) 926-0612.