• Move over worksheets! Parents want preschool math to be fun and engaging 

  Stites, M. L.; Sonnenschein, S.; Dowling, R. (Sonnenschein Lab UMBC, 2019-06)

  Our study examined preschool parents’ beliefs about supporting their children’s math skills at home and the types of support they would like to receive from teachers.

• Reaching Vulnerable Families through Collaborative Partnerships: The Evaluation 

  Sonnenschein, Susan; Dowling, Rebecca; Shanty, Lisa

• School Readiness Beliefs and Practices of Immigrant Parents 

  Grossman, Julie A.; Sonnenschein, Susan; Sawyer, Brook; Kong, Peggy; Simons, Cassandra; Rowan, Megan (Sonnenschein Lab UMBC, 2020)

  Parental beliefs about school readiness are associated with children’s achievement. Few studies addressing cultural variation in parents’ school readiness beliefs have included immigrant groups or compared and contrasted ...

• High School Math Course Enrollment Among Strong Math Ability Students: Motivation and Context 

  Thompson, Joy A.; Sonnenschein, Susan

• Parents’ Confidence for Fostering Their Preschool Children’s Math Development 

  Stites, Michele; Sonnenschein, Susan (Sonnenschein Lab UMBC, 2020-10)

• Parents as Teachers During COVID-19 

  Grossman, Julie A.; Sonnenschein, Susan; Grossman, Elyse R.; Nasir, Aysha (Sonnenschein Lab UMBC, 2021)

  Following U.S. school closures in March 2020 due to the Coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic, parents have had to play substantially larger roles in their children’s education than previously. Little is known about the ...

• Getting Preschoolers Ready for School: Parents' Perceptions of the Home Learning Environment 

  Sonnenschein, Susan; Stites, Michele (Sonnenschein Lab UMBC, 2021-04)

• Keeping Black students in STEM 

  Suran, Melissa (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021-06-08)

• School Readiness Beliefs of Dominican and Salvadoran Immigrant Parents 

  Simons, Cassandra; Sonnenschein, Susan; Sawyer, Brook; Kong, Peggy; Brock, Amber (Taylor & Francis Online, 2021-05-31)

  Parents are children’s first teachers, and it is critical that they understand what children need to be successful in school. This study examined the school readiness beliefs of 43 Latinx immigrant parents from the Dominican ...

• About a Third of Nursing Home Social Services Directors Have Earned a Social Work Degree and License 

  Bern-Klug, Mercedes; Smith, Kevin M.; Roberts, Amy Restorick; Kusmaul, Nancy; Gammonley, Denise; Hector, Paige; Simons, Kelsey; Galambos, Colleen; Bonifas, Robin P.; Herman, Chris; Downes, Deirdre; Munn, Jean C.; Rudderham, Giang; Cordes, Elizabeth A.; Connolly, Robert (Taylor & Francis Online, 2021-03-03)

  Nursing home (NH) residents have high psychosocial needs related to illness, disability, and changing life circumstances. The staff member with the most expertise in addressing psychosocial needs is the social worker. ...

• Structural Characteristics of Nursing Homes and Social Service Directors that Influence Their Engagement in Disaster Preparedness Processes 

  Kusmaul, Nancy; Beltran, Susanny; Buckley, Tommy; Gibson, Allison; Bern-Klug, Mercedes (Taylor & Francis Online, 2021-06-01)

  Nursing home residents are an at-risk population during disaster situations, and nursing homes face unique challenges in managing disasters. Nursing home social service departments can support their nursing homes in meeting ...

• Error sources in heralded quantum Zeno gates 

  Nodurft, I.C.; Franson, J.D. (2021-05-28)

  Quantum logic gates for photonic qubits can be implemented using the quantum Zeno effect based on strong two-photon absorption. The fidelity of quantum Zeno gates of this kind may be substantially reduced by photon loss. ...

• Quantum Heat Engines with Singular Interactions 

  Myers, Nathan; McCready, Jacob; Deffner, Sebastian (MDPI, 2021-05-31)

  By harnessing quantum phenomena, quantum devices have the potential to outperform their classical counterparts. Here, we examine using wave function symmetry as a resource to enhance the performance of a quantum Otto engine. ...

• Attention Based Semantic Segmentation on UAV Dataset for Natural Disaster Damage Assessment 

  Chowdhury, Tashnim; Rahnemoonfar, Maryam (2021-06-01)

  The detrimental impacts of climate change include stronger and more destructive hurricanes happening all over the world. Identifying different damaged structures of an area including buildings and roads are vital since it ...

• Subjective cognitive decline and objective cognition among diverse U.S. Hispanics/Latinos: Results from the Study of Latinos-Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging (SOL-INCA) 

  Zlatar, Zvinka Z.; Tarraf, Wassim; González, Kevin A.; Vásquez, Priscilla M.; Marquine, María J.; Lipton, Richard B.; Gallo, Linda C.; Khambaty, Tasneem; Zeng, Donglin; Youngblood, Marston E.; Estrella, Mayra L.; Isasi, Carmen R.; Daviglus, Martha; González, Hector M. (Wiley Online Library, 2021-05-31)

  Introduction Despite increased risk of cognitive decline in Hispanics/Latinos, research on early risk markers of Alzheimer's disease in this group is lacking. Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) may be an early risk marker ...

• Platform Incubator with Movable XY Stage: A New Platform for Implementing In-Cell Fast Photochemical Oxidation of Proteins 

  Johnson, Danté; Punshon-Smith, Benjamin; Espino, Jessica A.; Gershenson, Anne; Jones, Lisa M. (JOVE, 2021-05-17)

  Fast Photochemical Oxidation of proteins (FPOP) coupled with mass spectrometry (MS) has become an invaluable tool in structural proteomics to interrogate protein interactions, structure, and protein conformational dynamics ...

• The long period of ³He-rich solar energetic particles measured by Solar Orbiter 2020 November 17–23 

  Bucík, R.; Mason, G. M.; Gómez-Herrero, R.; Lario, D.; Balmaceda, L.; Nitta, N. V.; Krupar, V.; Dresing, N.; Ho, G. C.; Allen, R. C.; Carcaboso, F.; Rodríguez-Pacheco, J.; Schuller, F.; Warmuth, A.; Wimmer-Schweingruber, R. F.; Freiherr von Forstner, J. L.; Andrews, G. B.; Berger, L.; Cernuda, I.; Lara, F. Espinosa; Lees, W. J.; Martín, C.; Pacheco, D.; Prieto, M.; Sánchez-Prieto, S.; Schlemm, C. E.; Seifert, H.; Tyagi, K.; Maksimovic, M.; Vecchio, A.; Kollhoff, A.; Kühl, P.; Xu, Z. G.; Eldrum, S. (EDP Sciences, 2021-05-19)

  We report observations of a relatively long period of ³He-rich solar energetic particles (SEPs) measured by Solar Orbiter. The period consists of several well-resolved ion injections. The high-resolution STEREO-A imaging ...

• Hyperspectral Band Selection based on Improved Affinity Propagation 

  Zhu, Qingyu; Wang, Yulei; Wang, Fengchao; Song, Meiping; Chang, Chein-I (IEEE, 2021)

  Dimensionality reduction is a common method to reduce the computational complexity of hyperspectral images and improve the classification performance. Band selection is one of the most commonly used methods for ...

• Impact on Student Learning: The Contribution of a Professional Development Collaboration 

  North, Cheryl; Feldman, Kimberly C.; Stites, Michele L.; Schaffer, Eugene C. (BCES Conference, 2021)

  Schools of education are often criticized for not effectively preparing teacher candidates and teacher education research has been criticized for lack of rigor in examining the impact on student learning. Teacher preparation ...

• Development of the START Program for Academic Readiness and Its Impact on Behavioral Self-regulation in Japanese Kindergarteners 

  Imai-Matsumura, Kyoko; Schultz, David (Springer Nature, 2021-05-25)

  The “first-grade problem” of the lack of concentration, listening, and following of instruction has been widely identified among Japanese kindergarten students. To promote their executive functioning and self-regulation ...

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