Labs

Adolescent Literacy & Professional Development Lab

The Adolescent Literacy and Professional Development Lab Under the guidance of Dr. Jade Wexler, the Adolescent Literacy & Professional Development Lab is committed to improving literacy outcomes for adolescent readers, both with and without disabilities. In partnership with school districts, instructional leaders, and teachers, the lab studies and develops innovative ways of professional...

Autism, Family, Culture, and Communication Education Lab

Autism, Family, Culture, and Communication Education Lab (ACCEL) is a team of undergraduate and graduate students and faculty working together with children, families, and practitioners in early intervention, early childhood education, special education, applied behavior analysis, and related fields to understand and promote culturally relevant and evidence-based practices that support early language/literacy, social communication, and daily living skills of individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities or delays.

Bilingual and Biliteracy Research Lab

Directed by Professor Min Wang In the Bilingual and Biliteracy Research Lab, my students and I take a cross-linguistic perspective on identifying and examining the factors and processes that influence monolingual and bilingual and biliteracy development. By systematically comparing both children and adults learning L2 English who are coming from an orthographically or typologically different L1...

Bullying Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Lab

The Bullying Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Lab conducts research on topics including bullying and bullying prevention, school-based mental health services and prevention of mental health problems, mental health literacy, help-seeking among culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students, parenting practices and family involvement. Some of our recent projects include: Influences of...

Child Development Lab

Our research focuses on multiple facets of socio-emotional development. We study cognitive, social and emotional processes and are interested in the observation and measurement of attention, memory, as well as emotion expression and social experience. Our lab specializes in linking these psychological processes to neural activity through brain imaging methods such as EEG, ERP, and functional neuro...

Cognition and Development Lab

Our lab is part of the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park and we are a member of the Infant and Child Studies Consortium at UMD. The lab is co-directed by Dr. Lucas Butler and Dr. Richard Prather. Cognition and Development Lab

Demo Website

This is a demonstration website for training COE faculty, staff and students.

Disciplined Reading & Learning Research Laboratory

The Disciplined Reading and Learning Research Lab (DRLRL) is dedicated to the study of psychology in teaching and learning. Under the guidance of Patricia A. Alexander, the lab supports the research programs of Dr. Alexander and her team of graduate students. Disciplined Reading & Learning Research Laboratory

Early Childhood Interaction Lab

The Early Childhood Interaction lab is directed by Dr. Geetha Ramani. Our research focuses on understanding how young children’s social interactions with adults and peers influence their cognitive development. We are also interested in how play and informal learning activities can promote children’s thinking in the areas of mathematics, problem solving, and planning.

Emotions, Equity, & Education Lab

We collaborate with educators and communities to support socioemotional learning, healing from trauma, and achievement for all students. We are interested in constructs like policy impacts, bias, school climate, stress, mental health, persistence, emotion regulation, and racialized emotions. Our work engages a diverse group of students and educators from local, U.S.-based, and global schools as we examine systemic and socioemotional supports that promote students’ emotional well-being and engagement in school.

Family Involvement Laboratory (FIL)

Welcome to the Family Involvement Laboratory! Family Involvement Laboratory (FIL) explores ways that low-income, minority mothers and fathers are involved in their young children's lives and the influence that parents have on their children's development. The Research Group's aim is to gather rigorous data on the links between the quality of the relationship that parents have with each other...

Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy (HESI Preview 2025)

Welcome to the Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy (HESI) Preview website! Be sure to read through all of the information on this website from the tabs to the left, and please contact us if you have any questions. UMD HESI Preview is designed to provide admitted students with information, through formal and informal interactions with current faculty and students...

Hola Stem Lab

https://www.holastemlab.com/ HOLA!!! We are the HOLA STEM Lab, and we aim to recognize and promote positive experiences, practices, and opportunities for Latine families to advance the development of their children’s early STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) skills. Latine families bring immense linguistic and cultural assets to schools and communities. This group is the fastest...

Laboratory for Neurodevelopment of Reading and Language (LNRL)

Our research focuses on key issues of reading from a neurobiological, cognitive, and educational perspective. The primary goal is to understand brain development with respect to reading and language and how impairment and remediation are reflected in the cortex. From school-based and cross-sectional paradigms to adult training tasks, our work combines innovative and complex methodologies in...

Language, Experience, and Development (LEAD) Lab

Welcome to the LEAD lab! The Language, Experience, and Development (LEAD) lab, directed by Dr. Rachel Romeo, investigates how children’s early experiences—both favorable and adverse—influence their neural, cognitive, and academic development. We specialize in studying language and literacy development, but we are also interested in executive functioning, socioemotional cognition, and mental health...

Learning and Cognition Lab

Under the direction of Dr. Kelly Mix, the goal the Learning and Cognition Lab is to help K-1 students master place value with some experimental instructional techniques. Some of these techniques are based on Montessori activities and other common place value exercises. What’s new is that we’re trying to help children see the underlying relational structure of place value symbols by comparing and...

Literacy Lab

Help us learn how to best teach struggling first-grade readers! Join this UMD research project. A first grade supplemental reading intervention study designed to improve literacy outcomes. This research project uses Reading Mastery and the Science of Reading. Professional development curriculum and resources are provided. First Grade Literacy Lab includes Tier 2 intervention curriculum...

Maryland PDS 2025 Project

In 2019, the Maryland State Legislature passed Senate Bill 1030, components of which established principles of the Blueprint for Maryland’s future (statewide PreK- 12 education transformation) and the Teacher Collaborative Grant Program. The MSDE-funded Teacher Collaborative Grant Program aims to support collaborative projects between at least one IHE, LEA, and employee representative that focus...

Postsecondary Transition and Equity Lab (PTEL)

Welcome to the Postsecondary Transition and Equity Lab! Led by Dr. Shikarpurya, our lab is driven by an equity-focused mission to promote culturally affirming and meaningful life outcomes for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We examine systemic inequities in postsecondary transition and conduct community-driven and family-centered interventions to transform the postsecondary transition outcomes of racially minoritized young adults with IDD.

Prevention & Early Adversity Research Lab

Prevention & Early Adversity Research Lab The Prevention & Early Adversity Research Lab (PEARL) is led by Dr. Brenda Jones Harden, professor in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology (HDQM) in the College of Education. PEARL’s mission is to conduct applied research and program evaluation that informs policy and practice with respect to young children and families at...

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QMMS PCS Lab

What is the PCS lab? The QMMS Psychometric Computation and Simulation (PCS) lab was established in the spring of 2009 from monies acquired through a University of Maryland grant sponsored by the Campus Student Technology Advisory. It officially opened at the start of the 2009-2010 academic year. The PCS lab, originally housed in Cole Fieldhouse, relocated to EDU 0202 Benjamin Building on the...

Research in Enactive Games, AI, and Learning (REGAL) Lab

Led by Dr. Fengfeng Ke, the REGAL Lab explores the future of learning through the integration of enactive experiences, game-based environments, AI-driven personalization, and immersive simulations. Bridging the learning sciences, computer science, and design, the lab investigates how human-AI collaboration can support enactive, personalized, and collaborative learning.

Risk, Resilience and Culture Lab

The UC Berkeley-UMD Risk, Resilience, and Culture Lab studies how school members (e.g., students, teachers, parents, community members) interact with their living contexts (e.g., classroom, school, family, community, culture) to find their resilience in the face of a variety of risk factors in school settings and beyond, such as bullying, cyberbullying, peer victimization, teacher burnout, and...

Science Learning Research Group

SLRG examines learners’ reasoning, critical thinking, and understanding of scientific knowledge claims and how to effectively teach toward scientific literacy.

Social Cognitive Career Theory Lab

WELCOME Welcome to the Social Cognitive Career Theory Lab! Our research team includes Dr. Bob Lent and several graduate students in counseling psychology. The research team pursues individual and joint studies of career, academic, counseling, wellness, and relationship behavior. Most of the team's studies involve applications of social cognitive theory and focus on positive psychological...

Social Justice Lab

The Social Justice, Intersectionality, and Heteronormativity Lab within the Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education at the University of Maryland, College Park investigates the ways in which privileged social status in terms of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and (dis)ability result in discriminatory attitudes and behaviors among mental health professionals. Key...

Technology, Interventions, and Inclusion in Autism Lab (TIIA)

The technology, interventions, and inclusion in autism (TIIA) lab led by Gulnoza Yakubova, Ph.D., researches topics related to technology supports and interventions to support the education, inclusion, and independent living of autistic individuals. As a team consisting of high school, undergraduate and graduate students, and faculty members, we collaborate with autistic individuals, families, and school professionals to develop interventions using technology and other inclusive practices to serve the needs of autistic individuals.

Temperament and Narratives Lab

Welcome to the Temperament and Narratives Lab! Our lab is led by Dr. Hedy Teglasi and is housed within the Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education at the University of Maryland. We investigate young children and early career teachers’ emotional and cognitive processes that contribute to development and mental health. Our ongoing projects use multiple perspectives and...