Below are a sample of the projects which involve lab support (click on the links to learn more).

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Program Project Grant (MRRC)—All Sociobehavioral Group Members

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Asian/American Family Project (NICHD/MRRC)—Nihira and Mink

        Research involving text analysis, coding and analysis of fieldnotes, evaluation of coding reliability, and preparation for conference and paper presentation.

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CHILD Project (NICHD/MRRC)—Weisner

        Project CHILD, and related project REACH, involves the longitudinal study of children with developmental delays and their families.  Children were identified in the preschool years with developmental problems of unknown etiology. The 85 CHILD children are now adolescents (ages 16-17) and the 30 REACH children are young adults (ages 22-23).  The sampling criteria were identicle for both projects allowing for both child and family status to be compared across time and developmental periods.

        Currently, comparable descriptive data are being gathered from adolescents and young adults and their parents through the use of questionnaires, standardized scales and interview techniques.   Further, an ethnograpy focussed on adolescent and family efforts to organize their daily routines of life is being conducted.  Findings will yield information regarding:

The Field Lab will continue to provide valuable support in terms of data management and analysis:

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Latino School Project (MRRC/Spencer)—Gallimore

The UCLA Latino Home-School Research Project, The Lennox Project, began in 1989 as the "Home Emergent Literacy Project," at UCLA.  A longitudinal sample of 121 Latino families was randomly selected from 13 kindergartens, 4 schools, and 2 Los Angeles County school districts.  The purpose was to examine their progress in school, the ecological and cultural factors that affected the adaptation of their families in urban Los Angeles County, and to look at the daily routine of their families and the child-rearing and educational strategies that grew out of of that routine.  The ultimate goal was to detect reasons why some students succeed in school and others do not, and to make recommendations to school officials regarding the Latino children attending their schools.  

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Garifuna, Belizian, & Afro/American Project (NICHD/MRRC)—Tucker and Kernan

Ongoing research directed toward identifying, through ethnographic study, the social, cultural, and interactional features of family life that may facilitate or impair academic resilience in the face of the acknowledged risks to urban Black adolescents, both across and within three African descended, but culturally distinct, ethnic groups:  African Americans, Belizean Creoles, and Belizean Garifuna.  The proposed study has four specific aims: 1.To document the youth to adult transitional experiences of urban adolescents in three culturally distinct groups.  2.To examine the influence of risk and protective bases (i.e., biological, family, school, community, societal) on the youth to adult transitional process. 3.To examine the function of mediating factors (i.e., person-centered, family, peer, school) on the youth to adult transitional process. 4.To examine the effects that the transitional process has on the youth who experience it.

Important scholars, faculty, and staff affiliated with this project include: