Excited to share our article out this week in Society for Research in Child Development led by the brilliant Ella James-Brabham as part of her PhD & Claudia von Bastian and Carmel. A real labour of love examining via meta-analysis the relation between home activities & children’s maths skills srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

Science is just better when you are free to communicate ideas in a supportive environment. This resonates so strongly with everybody here (6.8K likes already), and still we keep using horrible, slow, censoring systems for sharing scientific knowledge. We can change this.

Our commentary - Evaluating What Works in the Classroom: Best Practice and Future Opportunities - has just been published in Mind, Brain & Education 🧠📚🧮 With Astrid Bowen, Lucy Palmer, Michael Thomas, Professor Andy Tolmie, Grégoire Borst and Jo Van Herwegen onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mb…

An interesting contribution to the early childhood education/fade out conversation: nber.org/papers/w33027

🎉I'm excited to share that the "Our Mathematical World" book series is now on Amazon, in both English and Spanish! 🎉This is a result of the grant I led from 2020-2023, funded by the Advanced Education Research & Development Fund EF+Math program. Thanks to the entire team, especially our teacher collaborators!

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

A Brief History of Students Today Aren’t Prepared for College 🧵

1/ I've long wondered why executive function in childhood predicts life outcomes. Why does juggling information in mind, shifting between tasks, and controlling our impulses matter so much? I'm increasingly convinced that our early answers missed something fundamental.

As someone who very much does want a village and indeed has it (I currently have 4 neighborhood kids under 6 at my house joining us for dinner. Part of a baby swapping system I started in 2021), after having pretty painstakingly built it over years, I want to make two points...

Does it teach them about omitted variable bias?

35 years of studies argue that kids assume word meanings are mutually exclusive. In Association for Psychological Science, Gabor Brody, Athulya Aravind, and I argue kids aren't making an assumption. We show 2y.o. only think words are mutually exclusive when they're told so. 1/ osf.io/awtch

Excellent interview of scientist Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 (I beat 'em to it). On AI: They "do really well producing perfectly grammatical and meaningful sentences. They’re not so good at thinking, which [aligns] with the idea that the language system by itself is not what makes you think."

Little is known, although much is theorized, about the long-run benefits of boosting children's social-emotional skills. Across 450 post-test & follow-up impacts from 86 RCTs, we found similar fadeout rates for intervention impacts on social-emotional & cognitive skills. 1/11

🚨News! tinyurl.com/y3vskm73 Low-SES students are often portrayed as lacking skills. We test the effect of reframing this narrative in a field trial (N=786). Highlighting the strengths low-SES students show boosted grades over one semester, closing an SES-performance gap.

We surveyed Y6 pupils to find out how they felt about school and maths before coming to secondary school, and found four disadvantage gaps that I wasn't expecting to see. 🧵...

We have a new paper out in #ECRQ where we examined kindergarten cognitive predictors of academic grades. Language, literacy, & math predictors overlapped in obvious & unexpected ways to predict future skills! W/ @drmarcj @NumCog @oramorama Lisa Archibald 🔓 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S08…

It's the 24th annual Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day! #WorthMore #ECEAppreciation. Post your appreciation for their vital work today.

🗣️I want to wish a Happy ECE Appreciation Day to all our amazing educators Ottawa Catholic School Board, my ECE students Algonquin College 💚🤍and especially my teaching partners Good Shepherd School 💙💛 🐏 We could not do it without you! 💓 #ocsbKinder #ocsbMerci Algonquin Students' Association #eceappreciation #ECE

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