As a co-PI of the overall grant and PI of this subcontract, Dr. Davis-Kean will be responsible for helping to oversee the scientific and administration direction of subcontract and will be collaborating extensively on the main grant with Dr. Bradley. Davis-Kean will be specifically responsible for collecting the information on the HOME scale across multiple community and national data sets. She will also look for important candidate items that may be useful in enhancing the new version of the HOME scale. This will be done both empirically by examining the data sets for reliable items that predict multiple child outcomes but also more qualitatively in reviewing codebooks and other resources for items that may be new to the HOME scale but have been used reliably in other data sets to measure family functioning. Dr. Davis-Kean?s expertise involves the influence of parent education and other socio-economic indicators on child outcomes. Her research involves understanding the influence of the contexts children live in on their developmental outcomes. Specifically, she is interested in the influence of parenting on a wide range of developmental outcomes. She has found that parents? education (both mother?s and father?s education) has a direct impact on the achievement of the child, as well as an indirect effect through the emotional and physical environment of the child. Thus, the more education that parents have, the more organized the physical home environment is, and the more appropriate parents are at dealing with emotional situations in the home (Davis-Kean, 2005). This research has been extended to include longitudinal samples and race differences (Davis-Kean & Sexton, 2007). She continues to explore these pathways of the home environment on child development and primarily uses the HOME scale to measure the environment. Dr. Davis-Kean has used the HOME scale in various types of data sets and is very familiar with how it has been modified and changed by various researchers. She is also an expert in statistical analyses of developmental data using both primary and secondary data sets. It is due to this expertise that she directs the Center on Analyses of Pathways from Childhood to Adulthood (CAPCA) an NSF Developmental Science Center whose goal is to push the limits of our current methods to answer difficult questions of individual change and the contextual circumstances that influence such change. Dr. Davis-Kean will bring her expertise in longitudinal analyses as well as the resources of the Center to this grant. The Center will provide the collaborative nexus for the collaborative analyses that are proposed and provides the potential of over 25 data sets for examining the HOME environment in both national and community samples (please see more details on the CAPCA Center at http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/capca/) Dr. Davis-Kean will oversee all aspects of processing and analysis of the data in various data sets for this study in preparation for the item selection phase of this grant. She will then provide assistance on the norming of the instrument.