Lisa Mccabe
Extension Associate
2008
HD

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Current Activities

Current Professional Activities
Society for Research in Child Development, Member
National Association for the Education of Young Children, Member
National Association of Family Child Care, Member
National Alliance for Family Friend and Neighbor Child Care, Chair of
    Research Committee
Rochester Association for the Education of Young Children, Public Policy
    Co-Chair

Reviewer for Early Childhood Research Quarterly





Current Research Activities
My research focuses on early care and education, child development, and program evaluation.  Current work examines how participation in the Caring For Quality program, a new training and support program for registered and informal home-based child care providers in upstate New York, relates to child care quality, provider and child outcomes. Another current project examines early care and education in rural New York settings, with a particular emphasis on the roll out and impact of state-funded pre-kindergarten on rural educational communities, systems, and children's school readiness.  In addition, my current research also explores rural children's school readiness in a child welfare population (using data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being.)  Finally, as part of the Residential Child Care Project, my current work contributes to an evaluation of the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention training system for residential child care facilities.

Current Extension Activities
Dr. McCabe's extension work focuses on outreach in the area of early childhood education and development.  Currently, she is involved in the dissemination of results from the Caring for Quality program evaluation and the Rural Early Education Project.  Most recent dissemination efforts include two new research briefs designed for non-academic audiences. 

Dr. McCabe also conducts workshops for child care providers and parents on the following topics:  parenting an infant or toddler, challenging behaviors, play and literacy, children's stress in group early care and education settings.




Biography

Biographical Statement
Dr. Lisa McCabe is Director of the Cornell Early Childhood Program and a Research Associate at the Family Life Development Center. Her work focuses on applied research and outreach in the area of early childhood care and education.  Currently, she leads the evaluation of a new home visiting and support program (“Caringfor Quality”) for both formal and informal family child care providers in Rochester, New York. She is also part of a team (with Dr. John Sipple and Judith Ross-Bernstein) examining rural child care issues with a particular emphasis on the state-funded pre-kindergarten program.  Finally, she is part of the Residential Child Care Project where she contributes to an evaluation of the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention training system.  

Before coming to the Cornell Early Childhood Program, Dr. McCabe was a Research Scientist at the National Center for Children and Families, Teachers College, Columbia University where she specialized in policy oriented research focusing on early childhood education and emotional development.  She has also worked as a center-based child care provider for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.  Dr. McCabe received both her M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (1999) in Human Development from Cornell University.



Education
B.A. 1992-Cornell University
     Human Development and Family Studies
M.A. 1995-Cornell University
     Human Development
Ph.D. 1999- Cornell University
     Human Development


Courses, Websites, Pubs

Related Websites
http://www.human.cornell.edu/HD/CECP/

http://www.raeyc.org/publicpolicy/index.html


Selected Publications

McCabe, L. A. & Cochran, M. (2008, October).  Can Home Visiting Increase the Quality of Home-based Child Care?  Findings from the Caring for Quality Project.  (Research and Policy Brief Series, Issue 3).  The Cornell Early Childhood Program, Family Life Development Center, Cornell University.

Sipple, J. W., McCabe, L. A., & Ross-Bernstein, J. (2008, January).  The Capacity of Early Care and Education in Rural New York State.  (Research and Policy Brief Series, Issue 13).  Community and Rural Development Initiative, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University.  Available at http://devsoc.cals.cornell.edu/cals/devsoc/outreach/cardi/upload/01-2008-RPB.pdf

McCabe, L. A. (2007).  School-Age Care.  In R.S. New & M. Cochran (Eds.), Early Childhood Education: An International Encyclopedia, Vol. 3 (pp. 707-711).  Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.

McCabe, L. & Ackerman, D. (2007).  Child Care Center Quality:  Measurement Issues and Links to Child Developmental Outcomes.  Published on-line by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Data Documentation Series.  Available at http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/78078/diw_datadoc_2007-025.pdf

McCabe, L.A., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2007).  With a little help from my friends?:  Self-regulation in groups of young children.  Infant Mental Health Journal, 28(6), 584-605.

McCabe, L.A., & Frede, E. (2007, December).  Challenging Behaviors and the Role of Preschool Education.  (Preschool Policy Brief Issue 16).  Rutgers, NJ:  National Institute for Early Education Research.  Available on-line at http://nieer.org/resources/policybriefs/16.pdf.

McCabe, L.A., Cunnington, M. & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2004).  The development of self-regulation in young children:  Individual characteristics and environmental contexts.  In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications (pp. 340-356). New York: Guilford Publications, Inc.

    McCabe, L.A., Rebello-Britto, P., Hernandez, M., & Brooks-Gunn, J.  (2004).  Games children play:  Observing young children’s self-regulation across laboratory, home, and school settings.  In R. DelCarmen-Wiggins & A. Carter (Eds.). Handbook of infant, toddler, and preschool mental health assessment (pp. 491-521).  New York, NY: Oxford University Press.