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New Research presented at the Biennial Meeting of The Society for Research in Child Development

03/30/2009

Several researchers from the Children’s Media Lab will be attending the 2009 Biennial Meeting of The Society for Research in Child Development in Denver, Colorado this week.   Doctoral candidates Jessica Taylor Piotrowski, Sarah Vaala, and Matthew Lapierre are each presenting research conducted with Dr. Deborah Linebarger in the Children’s Media Lab while post-doctoral fellow Annie Moses is presenting a portion of her dissertation research. 
 
Eyes on Screen: The Effects of Age, Text Complexity and Movement on Children's Attention to On-Screen Print
Matthew Lapierre, Deborah L. Linebarger, & Sarah Vaala
 
Content Analysis of Teaching Strategies Embedded in Infant Educational Programming
Sarah Vaala, Rachel F. Barr, Amaya Garcia, Katherine Salerno, Elizabeth Brey, Susan K. Fenstermacher, Tiffany A. Pempek, Annie M. Moses, Sandra L. Calvert, &  Deborah L. Linebarger
 
Can Postcards From Buster Help Inside the ELL Classroom? An Examination of Receptive and Productive Vocabulary Acquisition
Jessica Taylor Piotrowski, Sarah Vaala, & Deborah L. Linebarger
 
"Books Are Fun, Books Are Great": How Television Messages About Literacy Affect Young Children
Annie M. Moses 
 
Copies of the presentations will be available on the Children’s Media Lab website after the conference.