Jeanne Day

Research and teaching interests

Dr. Day's research interests are in the area of cognitive development and educational processes. One of her primary areas of investigation currently concerns finding better ways to teach young disadvantaged children so as to improve their preparation for later school success. In addition, she studies individual differences in the ease with which children learn with an eye toward creating educationally useful profiles of ability. Recently, she has taught children attending Head Start literacy and math concepts. Finally, she has conducted research on the measurement of "social intelligence" with the eventual aim of finding ways to improve children's social skills.