Highlighting the research and work of CYFS Student Affiliates.
Preschool represents many firsts in a child’s education. For parents, it is often their first interaction with a classroom teacher.
CYFS graduate assistant Amanda Moen is studying preschool teachers’ influence on these early partnerships. With dissertation grant awards from the University of Nebraska’s Buffett Early Childhood Institute and the Society for the Study of School Psychology, Moen will test a measure used to assess teachers’ confidence in promoting family-school partnerships.
Name: Morgan Holmen
Hometown: Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Major: Speech Language Pathology in the College of Education and Human Sciences
Graduation Date: May 2016
CYFS Affiliation: Undergraduate research assistant
What is your role as a CYFS undergraduate research assistant?
Name: Benjamin Baumfalk
Hometown: Lincoln, Nebraska
Major/program: Quantitative, Qualitative and Psychometric Methods in the Department of Educational Psychology
CYFS graduate assistantship: CYFS’ Bureau for Education Research, Evaluation and Policy, and the Nebraska Academy for Methodology, Analytics and Psychometrics
Name: Micheale J. Marcus
Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina
Major/program: School Psychology
CYFS graduate assistantship: Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Anticipated date of graduation: May 2021
Describe your CYFS graduate assistantship and how it fits with your research goals?