Assistant Professor
Early Childhood Development and Education
(Purdue University, 2005)

Publication/Research

• Child care quality
• Accreditation of programs for young children
• Typical children's perceptions of peer with disabilities
• Work-family issues
• Parental decision making about child care

Research Interests

• Parental decision making about child care
• Parental beliefs/practices about guidance and discipline
• Parent education
• Child care quality
• Maternal preferences about child care
• Child care provider training and education
• Child care administrator decision making about quality issues