Conferences:
Scholarship
on Disabilities
Modeling Developmental
Processes in Ecological Context
March 4-6, 2004 in Tempe, Arizona
The influence of families, peers, schools, neighborhoods, and communities is important to consider in the study of human development. Which methods are the best for representing and modeling ecological context? At this conference, statisticians, developmentalists, and quantitative scholars discussed ecological effects, such as:
- direct influences on development
- mediators and/or moderators of change
- nested hierarchical levels of influence
- dynamic systems.
Participants also discussed common methodological concerns, including:
- measurement issues
- incomplete data
- sample heterogeneity (a person-centered approach)
- power and sample size.
Peg
Barratt was a conference participant.
At the National Science Foundation, she is Program Director for
Developmental and Learning Sciences.
Co-sponsors: the National Science Foundation, the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, and the Merrill Center at the University of Kansas
Pictured
left to right - back row: Donald Hedeker, David Francis,
Jack McArdle, David Slegers, Scott Hofer, Kim Wilcox, Patrick
Curran, Joy Simpson, Daniel Bauer, Steven Boker, Bud MacCallum,
Sam Green, Susan Embretson, Steven Zubrick, Emily Ledford,
Niall Bolger, Lesa Hoffman, Keith Widaman, Siek-Toon Khoo,
Kate Taylor, David MacKinnon, Steve West, Robert Barnhill Photo by Tim Trumble |
Conference organizers at the University of Kansas:
- Todd Little - Director, Research Design and Analysis Unit, Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies & Associate Professor of Psychology
- Janet Marquis - Co-Director of the RDA Unit, Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies
- James Bovaird - Research Associate, RDA Unit
Abstracts of conference presentations: