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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · Jun 9

Excited to be in Hong Kong for #MCLS2025! I'll be presenting tomorrow on work from an NSF-funded study - see details below!

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · May 30

This study emphasizes the importance of efforts to support girls’ sense of belonging in mathematics, especially into secondary grades in which reported levels of math anxiety are higher.

Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · May 30

Girls showed higher levels of math anxiety than boys, and math anxiety increased across grades. However, math anxiety was unrelated to the content of students’ drawings.

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · May 30

We had a sample of 4th, 6th, and 8th graders. Girls drew more female mathematicians than boys, and the proportion of students drawing female mathematicians dropped steeply in eighth grade, particularly for girls.

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · May 30

Led by VT Learn Lab alumna Jisun Kim, in collaboration with @gilliangrose.bsky.social, Tess Levinson, and @lkfazio.bsky.social. Congrats, Jisun! @mcls-official.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #Devpsych #Cogsci

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · May 30

Our paper "Picturing mathematicians: Examining how gender and math anxiety relate to students’ representations of mathematicians in late elementary and middle school" is now available online! Read it for free until July 3 here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l5K451Y-X...

authors.elsevier.com

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Bert De Smedt @bertdesmedt.bsky.social · May 8

New from the lab: "From language to mathematics and vice versa?: A longitudinal study on the associations between preschoolers’ mathematical language and mathematical abilities" Free access via this link 👇 lnkd.in/em8CHkQr with Eylül Turan, PhD

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · May 2

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.

"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

www.spencer.org

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · May 1

Suzanne Varnell is also presenting a poster at #srcd25 examining data from the Our Math World project I led, funded by AERDF. Co-authors @damcotto.bsky.social @ericdwilkey.bsky.social @andyribner.bsky.social @gilliangrose.bsky.social @sarahpowellphd.bsky.social @davidjpurpura.bsky.social #Devpsych

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · Apr 30

Jisun Kim is presenting work in collaboration with @gilliangrose.bsky.social, Tess Levinson, and @lkfazio.bsky.social. We received exciting news this week that the manuscript on this work was accepted - Congrats, Jisun! @mcls-official.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #Devpsych #Cogsci

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · Apr 30

Current and former grad students from the Virginia Tech Learning and Development Lab are presenting at #SRCD2025! Isabel is presenting her work with Dr. Ben Katz at Virginia Tech. #PsychSciSky #Devpsych #Cogsci

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · Apr 23

If you are at #AERA2025, check out the work that grad students in the Virginia Tech Learning and Development Lab are presenting! #PsychSciSky #devpsych #cogsci @mcls-official.bsky.social Co-authors include @sarahpowellphd.bsky.social @davidjpurpura.bsky.social and others not on this platform.

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · Mar 4

I’m excited to share that my newest publication is out! It has been a great collaboration working with this team of members from both HDFS and Computer Science.

Koeun Choi @koeun.bsky.social · Mar 4

📣 Our paper "Exploring parent involvement in e-book joint reading with voice agents" is now published!
- We explore how AI voice agents can enhance parent-child joint reading by designing "TaleMate".
- Read it for free until April 23, 2025 here: 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kiWY3pfaR...

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Nicole McNeil @nicolemmcneil.bsky.social · Feb 11

How IES Helps Students and Educators. theconversation.com/helping-teac...

Helping teachers learn what works in the classroom − and what doesn’t − will get a lot harder without the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences

The nonpartisan arm of the Education Department supports research and shares data on student progress. It identifies what works and what doesn’t.

theconversation.com

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Dana Miller-Cotto @damcotto.bsky.social · Feb 2

QJEP special issue on the Baddeley/Hitch (1974) model is out 🥳 Happy to be included in this exciting collection with @drrebeccagordon.bsky.social. Please do check them all out 🙏🏾

Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · Feb 2

The QJEP special issue celebrating the 50th-year anniversary of the Baddeley/Hitch (1974) model of WM is now officially out.

An interesting collection, but let me give a special shoutout to the insightful piece by @damcotto.bsky.social written from a dev/edu perspective. doi.org/10.1177/1747...

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · Dec 13

Other suggestions regarding measuring children's persistence in a way that is playful / game-like (not too frustrating) would be welcome too!

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · Dec 13

Asking the crowd: Who has used a LEGO construction task to measure children's persistence, and could you share your protocol and/or published articles using the task? I have a student considering using this sort of measure with 1st and 4th graders. #PsychSciSky

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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · Nov 21

Special Issue at Developmental Psychology!

New Approaches to Understanding How Early Experience Shapes Executive Function and Self-Regulation Skills

Guest Editors: Sabine Doebel, Dana Miller-Cotto, and Jennifer McDermott
@sabinedoebel.bsky.social @damcotto.bsky.social

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · Nov 5

Interested in Ph.D. programs in HDFS? Come join us at Virginia Tech! Applications are due Dec. 1st. More info can be found at bit.ly/HDFSGradVT. Check out more about my lab (Learning & Development Lab) at www.vtlearnlab.com.
#psychscisky

#phdsky

#academicsky

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · Nov 5

Interested in Ph.D. programs in HDFS? Come join us at Virginia Tech! Applications are due Dec. 1st. More info can be found at bit.ly/HDFSGradVT. Check out more about my lab (Learning & Development Lab) at www.vtlearnlab.com.
#psychscisky

#phdsky

#academicsky

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Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social · Jun 25

fund numerical cognition research!

My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · Jun 25

Microsoft invested $13 billion in AI

Microsoft Copilot confidently answering a question incorrectly.
You: How many words are in this sentence?
Copilot: There are eight words in the sentence you provided

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · Jun 25

Come check out the work that graduate students in the
Virginia Tech Learning and Development Lab and I are presenting at the Math Cognition and Learning Society conference this week!
#MCLS2024 #PsychSciSky #devpsych #cogsci

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · May 29

Link to public pre-proof: drive.google.com/file/d/1nVEU...

Hornburg et al. 2024_Math Language and Emergent Literacy_Specific Early Numeracy_Pre-Proof.pdf

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · May 29

Math language predicted most numeracy skills! (e.g., set comparison, numeral comparison, numeral identification). Of the emergent literacy skills, only print knowledge was a significant predictor of some numeracy skills (verbal counting, number order, and story problems).

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Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg.bsky.social · May 29

We examined longitudinal relations among math language, emergent literacy skills (print knowledge, phonological awareness, and general vocabulary) and specific early numeracy skills.

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