Children Chatting On The Internet (Phase 3)
PARENTS: Please note that this study falls outside of the UCLA Lab School blanket consent form. As such, additional consent […]
Past Projects
Cybermural: Early Childhood
Interactive programs that utilize visual and physical relationships, like the XBOX Kinect create an opportunity for even very young students […]
Cultivating Children’s Agency and Collective Creativity in Project-based Science Learning
This study will analyze collective creativity in project-based science learning for UCLA Lab School Intermediate Level students. The UCLA Lab […]
Developing Practical Knowledge about Disciplinary Reading Instruction
This project seeks to understand how to teach reading in the content areas, especially as part of social studies/history instruction. […]
Children’s comprehension of syntactically encoded evidentiality
The aim of this project is to study children’s language development by looking at how they understand particular types of […]
Using Technology to Improve Young Children’s Science Learning
The DARPA ENGAGE program, under which this project is funded, is directed towards research and development of games that will […]
Elementary Students’ Dispositions, Goals and Engagement in Problem Solving in Mathematics
This study explores the goals that students have for math class and how these goals are related to the way […]
MindYou: Mindfulness as a Psychosocial Intervention for Children
The goal of this research is to analyze the effectiveness of the MindYou : Mindfulness Program for elementary students. The […]
Primary Sources in Elementary Classrooms: Exploring the Process of Integrating Primary Sources into Classroom Instruction
The purpose of the study is to better understand how teachers integrate primary sources into classroom instruction through an ethnographic […]
Exploring Sketching as a Window on Student Understanding
New tablet personal computers, like the iPad, are widely available and making their way into schools. One of the next […]
Study of the Development of Implicit Social Cognition
Cari Gillen-O’Neel, M.A., and Dr. Andrew J. Fuligni from the Department of Developmental Psychology at UCLA will be conducting a […]
Fostering students’ appropriations of science norms
This project will compare student interaction within three different astronomy activities to determine which sorts of tasks best promote students’ […]
Providing Cognitively Guided Instruction Professional Development
This project studies the work of Lab School teachers providing one year of school-based professional development in “Cognitively Guided Instruction” […]
Task Framing Study
The aim of this project is to study the impact of task framing on children’s motivation and performance. We want […]
STEP: Science Through Technology Enhanced Play
This project will result in software tools designed to work with commercially available sensing equipment to support early elementary science […]
Children’s Use of Inscriptions in Argumentation About Socioscientific Issues
Inscriptions are graphical representations of information or ideas, including things like photos, diagrams, graphs, tables, and so on. In science, […]
English Language Assessment Development – WIDA Standards
We will conduct the Dynamic Language Learning Progression (DLLP) Study in three phases. Phase 1: We will elicit spoken and […]
Investigating the characteristics and efficacy of the Learning in Two Languages Program: A Research and development initiative
Principal Investigator: Alison Bailey, Ph.D. Despite two decades of largely restrictive state and federal policies toward bilingual education in the […]
Collaborative processes in the construction of digital art
Principal Investigator: Randy Illum, CONNECT Fellowship Awardee 2016 This study will be comparing how collaboration between students, and how the […]
Analytics Validation for PBS KIDS Science Games
Principal Investigator: Greg ChungGraduate School of Education & Information Studies (CRESST) chung@cresst.orgParticipants: Rooms 3, 11 & 12 – Students ages […]