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PhD Student
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Maria Parente
PhD Student
Department of Education
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Biography
Maria E. Parente is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Education at the University of California, Irvine. She obtained her BS in Human Development from Cornell University in 2003. Subsequently, she worked as Project Coordinator for the Yale University Study of Children’s Afterschool Time (PI: Joseph L. Mahoney, Ph.D.), a five-year longitudinal study investigating afterschool arrangements and their developmental correlates in an urban, low-income sample.
Maria received her MS in Psychology from Yale University in 2007. As an early career fellow of the Zigler Center for Child Development and Social Policy, her interests lie at the intersection of research and social policy, concerning issues of out-of-school time, neighborhood crime, and poverty. As a student at UCI, Maria plans to continue her research investigating the developmental correlates of neighborhood structural characteristics and crime as well as begin further research concerning the quality of early childhood education. Below are selected publications.
Publications
Mahoney, J.L., Parente, M.E., & Lord, H. (2007) Program level differences in afterschool program engagement: link to child competence, program quality and content. Elementary School Journal, 10, 385-404.
Lord, H., Parente, M.E., & Mahoney J.L. (in press) Extracurricular activities. Chicago Companion to the Child.
Mahoney, J.L., Zigler, E., & Parente, M.P. (in prep). After school programs and children’s development. In J. Meece & J. Eccles (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Schools, Schooling, and Human Development.
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