The MAP Academy will host visiting scholar David MacKinnon for a Sept. 30 methodology workshop. The event is titled “Introduction to Modern Mediation Analysis” and will be held at UNL’s city campus.
Discounted early workshop registration is available through Sept. 23.
Cynthia Germanotta had just buckled into a trans-Atlantic flight back from Paris when her daughter paused and looked at her.
Mom, it’s time, she said.
The 25-year-old singer, Lady Gaga, had just finished another international concert. She had just finished listening to yet more stories from young fans struggling with bullying and mental health issues. And she knew she had to do something about it.
CYFS joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in launching an early childhood research initiative with Brazil during a meeting held May 18-19 in São Paulo.
The working meeting drew 60 early childhood scholars, policymakers and educators from Brazil and UNL with the purpose of forming collaborative teams to conduct future research. UNL’s representation included 13 faculty members from CYFS and the College of Education and Human Sciences.
The 2016 CYFS Summit on Research in Early Childhood highlighted the power of partnerships, both local and global. Service providers, educators, administrators and researchers converged in Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 7 to learn the latest science in early childhood—and its implications for practice and policy.
Registration is open for the June 13 Bullying Prevention Conference: Identifying and Intervening in Early Childhood at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Nebraska Innovation Campus. The conference is free and open to the public, but space is limited.
The 2016 CYFS Conversation Series begins Jan. 29. This series provides an ongoing forum for researchers to ask questions and share insight across the academic spectrum.
Topics for 2016 include secondary data analysis, team-based scientific research and international research. The series is free, open to the public and requires no registration.
Lorey Wheeler, CYFS research assistant professor, continued the 2015-16 Methodology Applications Series on Nov. 20 with a discussion titled “Sampling, Recruiting, and Retaining Diverse Samples.”
Sampling and recruiting participants are basic steps in almost every research enterprise and are fundamental to determining the quality of the resulting research. This presentation introduces sampling, recruitment and retention strategies that have been found to be successful when conducting research that includes or focuses on diverse ethnic minority populations.
UNL alumnus Craig Enders returned to campus Oct. 26 to host the MAP Academy’s Fall 2015 Nebraska Methodology Workshop: “Dealing with Missing Data.”
There have been substantial methodological advances in the area of missing data analyses during the last 25 years. Methodologists currently regard maximum likelihood estimation (ML) and multiple imputation (MI) as two state-of-the-art handling procedures for missing data.