NOISE and the LEARNING BRAIN
Julie Schneider, Project Scientists from SEIS is conducting a research study to explore how children’s learning depends on their ability […]
Past Projects
Empathy Study
Empathy Study This spring AnnaLise Hoopes, UCLA PhD candidate will be visiting PreK-6 classrooms to learn from teachers about how […]
Critical Media Literacy & Digital Citizenship
Christine Ong, a researcher at CRESST in UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies focuses her research on how young […]
Teacher Moves Used to Engage Diverse Students with Disabilities in Math Instruction
During March 2025, doctoral student Megan Abraham will observe an intermediate teacher trained in Cognitively Guided Instruction using a qualitative […]
Youth-Led Environmental Education
This year, Dr. Christine Lee and Dr. Megan Franke will collaborate with Upper II Demonstration Teachers Lorrie Cariaga and Jennifer […]
Climate Literacy through Play and STEAM Education
This year, Dr. Megan Franke (PI) and Dr. Christine Lee (Co-PI) are collaborating with all eight primary level teachers to […]
Building Relationships with Land
This academic year, Intermediate teachers are implementing a multidisciplinary curriculum on the history and importance of land. Therefore, Dr. Megan […]
Cool Tools, a Safe School Project
Teachers, researchers and graduate students are working as a team to document the implementation of a safe school system created […]
Teacher-Research Group
As part of UES’s effort to support teacher reflection and professional development, CONNECT has organized a teacher-research group in which […]
KATES: Kids Adapting to Elementary School
KATES examines how children’s temperament and personality develop at school and relate to scholastic success. We explore how traits such […]
Designing a Multimedia Teaching and Learning Resource
This project is a collaborative effort by teachers and researchers to create an interactive multimedia tool that investigates the “how” […]
Tutorial Intervention Addressing Communicative Competence Issues among English Language Learners
PARENTS: Please note that because this study is taking place in the Extended Day Program, this study falls outside of […]
Participatory Competencies: Learning how to Participate in Digital Designs and Virtual Worlds
This study takes the form of an after-school Virtual World and Design Club for Intermediate and Upper level students in […]
Literacy and the Arts
PARENTS: Please note: for students who are seven years-old, an optional portion of this study falls outside of the UCLA […]
Social Category Inference Tasks with Children
This project, beginning in Early Childhood and Primary classes during the Fall Quarter, examines which cues children use to categorize […]
Oral Language Development in Early Childhood Classrooms: An Activity Setting Centered Analysis of Teacher-Child Interactions
This project investigates how teachers support young children’s oral language development in early childhood classrooms. In particular, this study will […]
Cultural Values and Childrens’ Daily Activities: A Comparison of Burma and the United States
We are beginning a project in the Early Childhood classrooms that seeks to examine how broader cultural values structure the […]
At the Risk of Sharing: Student perceptions of academic or social risk when sharing problem-solving strategies in Algebra
We are starting a new research project in Upper I classrooms (IRB#10-001359). The project explores the social and academic factors […]
Text, talk, and varieties of artistic representation: Affordances for learning in multimodal literacy activities experienced by children
This project aims to teach students about basic science concepts (such as hibernation, plants, water cycle, etc…). Learning sessions will […]
SPASES: Semiotic Pivots and Activity Spaces for Elementary Science
The SPASES project aims to use new sensing technologies to help translate young children’s physical actions during pretend play into […]