Additional Research Experience
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ACRE Project studying attitudes toward the practice of corporal punishment.
This poster summarizes the research I conducted in the winter of 2023 as a part of the ACRE (Albright Creative Research Experience). This research was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Julia Heberle, who served as faculty mentor. Our research, Factors impacting intergenerational transmission of corporal punishment in relation to language, parenting, attitudes, and personality : An examination of emerging adults, focused on asking the question do are people who received corporal punishment more likely to endorse it. Most research on corporal punishment(CP) focuses on current parents' attitudes and experiences with CP. Our research differs as it examines adults before parenthood. We collected data from 103 participants all between the ages of 18-24 who have not yet had children. We examine the interpretation of the words spanking vs hitting, to see if people identify a difference in the meaning and appropriateness of their application. Secondly, we ask about the relationship between participants’ own CP history, their attitudes towards and endorsement of CP, and assess the degree to which other parenting, personality, and developmental variables impact this relationship.
Question Creation as a Tool to Help Students Understand Mathematics is an ACRE Project that combined my two majors by applying cognitive psychology tools to 7th Graders math education.
These pictures are from NCUR 2024 where I presented on my research Question Creation as a Tool to Help Students Understand Mathematics. This research was conducted in the winter of 2022 in collaboration with Dr. Justin J. Couchman, who served as a faculty mentor. This study applied a cognitive tool to math education to see if it increases positive output in students. Specifically, we were testing whether creating and answering questions related to the topics students were learning would help them perform better on tests and assignments. The self-generation effect is a phenomenon in cognitive psychology in which subjects are more likely to remember items that they generate rather than those provided. The self-generation effect has been used to help memory in multiple situations. Recall and recognition are generally higher for stimuli that subjects generated than for stimuli that was only viewed. In the study, a group of seventh graders were separated into a control group, who for two weeks went home every night and answered two questions from their assigned homework, and an experimental group, who for two weeks went home every night and created and answered 2 questions related to material from class. Both groups completed a pre- and post-experience assessment with the same questions and two questionnaires related to math anxiety. After compiling, the data showed the hypothesis did come back statistically significant. Students significantly improved in both their completion of the math test but also in how much of it they got correct after the two week period. The experimental group performed significantly better on the tests.
Examines the effect parent-parent relationships have on childrens development, specifically in coparenting agreementsÂ
This paper was written as the final paper for my undergraduate Senior Seminar class. It focused on The effect of separated parents on parent-parent relations & child development: Keeping a united front and fostering strong relationships and is a focused literature review on current perspectives that ties in interviews with real parents.