At MCLS2026 in Padova 🇮🇹? So am I! Come visit me at the 5PM poster session on Wednesday when I’ll share work conducted with Elena Silla Gabriella Morra & Dana Miller-Cotto. See poster titled Collective cognitive resources: The role of collaboration in worked example learnin

Excited to share that I'll be giving a keynote at IMBES in September. The talk asks a simple question: Are we measuring children's cognition, or the interaction between cognition and context? Looking forward to sharing (and hopefully generating discussion) in San Diego.

International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES)@imbes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are grateful to announce that Dr. Dana Miller-Cotto will be presenting a keynote address entitled "The Context of Cognition: Educational Environments and Children's Thinking" at our upcoming meeting this September. #IMBES2026

New 📄 on sense of belonging for Black & Latine adolescents in math! Led by @drbrookeedu.bsky.social, w/Dr. Nicolai & Dr. Chen, we examine belonging as dynamic, contextual, & shaped by racialized & cultural experiences, w/implications for math learning environments tinyurl.com/HarrisThomas...

Examining Black and Latine Students’ Sense of Belonging within the Mathematics Classroom: A Narrative Review - Educational Psychology Review

Academic environments that support a sense of belonging, or students’ feelings of being included, valued, accepted, and supported, are positively associated with students’ engagement, persistence, and academic achievement. This is particularly true for Black and Latine adolescent students in U.S. mathematics classrooms. Research has also shown that students’ sense of belonging is a situated, malleable construct that can fluctuate throughout the school day. This narrative review examines how the dynamic nature of belonging interacts with the complex consideration of adolescent Black and Latine students’ ethnicity, race, and culture within the context of mathematics. We advance three considerations for researchers when investigating and supporting the belonging experiences of Black and Latine students within mathematics: Contextual Factors that Shape Sense of Belonging to Mathematics, Positionality and Framing of Investigations of Belonging, and Recognizing the Whole Student. By critically examining the educational contexts in which Black and Latine adolescent students engage with mathematics, alongside the prevailing frameworks and assumptions adopted in research studies, researchers are more likely to adopt a holistic perspective toward these students. Consequently, this approach fosters the production of research findings that affirm and enhance, rather than undermine, Black and Latine students’ sense of belonging within mathematical learning environments. Recommendations for research and practice are also shared.

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Thanks for checking out our work today, folks! @cabarbieri.bsky.social @elenamsilla.bsky.social Come see more of our work (on EF!) in the poster session tomorrow at 1:15 #CDS2026

At CDS instead? Check out works shared by @damcotto.bsky.social & @sarcler.bsky.social below!

In LA enjoying #AERA2026. Who else is here? See some of my lab and collaborative works below!

Any student Mot scholars attending AERA2026 want to chat? Sign up below! lnkd.in/eBr9CfAc

New paper led by Ilyse Resnick! Informal fraction knowledge grew Gr1–2 w/little instruction; nonsymbolic>symbolic; “half” led in Gr1, 3rds/4ths in Gr2; early fractions predicted later math beyond number sense (Resnick, Viegut, Barbieri, @noranewcombe.bsky.social & Jordan) tinyurl.com/Resnicketal2...

New paper in *Instructional Science* led by PhD Candidate Taylor-Paige Guba w/@mandymathed.bsky.social & Anne Morris! Correct, complete exemplars support PSTs' fraction magnitude explanations. Persistent overconfidence highlights need for explicit metacognitive support in teacher ed. rdcu.be/eX7ue

I’m so close to 1k! Hurry find 5 more real people and make them follow me.

Thanks for leading this work @elenamsilla.bsky.social ! Always a pleasure to work and write with Elena!

Elena Silla@elenamsilla.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Excited to share a new paper from UD's Early Fraction Understanding Project! We identified three latent profiles of informal fraction knowledge in first grade, each with relative strengths in their understanding of fraction concepts. Profile membership predicted cognitive skills and math knowledge.

As Dr. Chawla explains, the 0–100 number line estimation task is widely used to study children’s numerical magnitude understanding. Along w/Dr. @juliebooth.bsky.social we asked a practical measurement question: What is the optimal number of items needed to retain the task’s utility? See new 📄 in JNC

Kamal Chawla@kamalc31.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 How many items do we need for the 0–100 number line? Using IRT (GRM) on N=234, we cut 23→15 items—same developmental patterns + predictive power (K–3) while saving time, also capturing accuracy + linearity w/ @juliebooth.bsky.social @cabarbieri.bsky.social 🔢📏 doi.org/10.23668/psy...

This is my amazing Doctoral advisee’s dissertation. She is a prior teacher and we would love if folks in the Mid-Atlantic region would repost!

Elena Silla@elenamsilla.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Education colleagues: I am partnering with middle- and high-school math teachers in DE, PA, and MD to look at how belonging-supportive instruction shapes students' math experiences (see infographic). Teachers can participate in 2025 or early 2026. Please share w/ teachers who may be interested!

One week left to apply to the University of Delaware’s PhD in Education (Learning Sciences, Literacy, Math Ed, Sociocultural Approaches, School Psych) or Educational Statistics and Research Methods!

Christina Areizaga Barbieri, Ph.D.@cabarbieri.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Apply to UD School of Education's Ph.D. in Education or Educational Statistics and Research Methods (ESRM) Programs by Nov. 15! SOE Specializations include Literacy, Learning Sciences, Math Ed, School Psych, and Sociocultural & Community-based Approaches! www.education.udel.edu/doctoral/phd/

A parent’s worst nightmare.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

Interested in a PhD in one of our specialization areas or programs from University of Delaware? Join me at our virtual open house tomorrow - Tues., Nov. 4 from 6-7:30 PM. Register here to get the link! grad-admissions.udel.edu/register/?id...

Christina Areizaga Barbieri, Ph.D.@cabarbieri.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Apply to UD School of Education's Ph.D. in Education or Educational Statistics and Research Methods (ESRM) Programs by Nov. 15! SOE Specializations include Literacy, Learning Sciences, Math Ed, School Psych, and Sociocultural & Community-based Approaches! www.education.udel.edu/doctoral/phd/

This was such a fun experience with @rodriguesjm.bsky.social Thanks for highlighting our work @jeffgreene.bsky.social !

Jeff Greene@jeffgreene.bsky.social · 9mo ago

There's been great research on supporting students w/mathematics difficulties. Would that research be even better if we integrated ideas from cognitive load theory? Yes! Learn all about it on this episode of the Div15 podcast with Drs. Barbieri & Rodrigues! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

An ed psych journal is refusing to publish our manuscript unless we "neutralize" "political" content. This is after the manuscript was peer-reviewed and accepted for publication. DM me for details! I'm devastated. Two years of work and revisions with four junior co-authors cast aside that easily.

Open-access publication alert!! This is a special one; it represents two years of work with an amazing team of researchers, teachers, educational stakeholders, and technology experts to identify infrastructure that would advance equity in STEM education: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A field-initiated vision of research infrastructure for STEM education - International Journal of STEM Education

STEM education research has historically been under-equipped, relying on standardized tests and questionnaires while other fields deploy space telescopes and particle accelerators. What would happen i...

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Apply to UD School of Education's Ph.D. in Education or Educational Statistics and Research Methods (ESRM) Programs by Nov. 15! SOE Specializations include Literacy, Learning Sciences, Math Ed, School Psych, and Sociocultural & Community-based Approaches! www.education.udel.edu/doctoral/phd/

Ph.D. in Education - School of Education

Ph.D. in Education The Ph.D. in Education program in the School of Education seeks to prepare scholars whose research will address critical problems in education, develop our understanding of teaching...

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Excited to share our new paper in Psychological Methods: “Machine Learning for Propensity Score Estimation: A Systematic Review and Reporting Guidelines.” Led by Prof. Walter Leite (UF) with 6 co-authors across 6 universities. DOI: doi.org/10.1037/met0... #CausalML #PropensityScore

🚨 THIS FRIDAY: Spilling the Tea on the Liberal Arts Job Market ☕ Friday, Oct 24 | 2:30-4:30 PM ET | Virtual & Free Hosted by Women in Cognitive Science+ (WiCS+) Register: forms.gle/2ciSJXXuL2yE... #AcademicJobs #AcademicBluesky #HigherEd #LiberalArts #CogSci #GradSchool #WomenInSTEM #PostDoc

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

We’re hiring! Come work with us in the Department of Special Education at UT Austin. Scholar in special education or related fields, without restrictions on rank or specific research program. Apply here: faculty.utexas.edu/career/168004 #WhatStartsHere

My undergraduates (middle school math methods) would like advice and insights for teachers' interactions with parents. Teachers or teacher educators, what advice or ideas would you give to these future teachers?

Oct = SREE PMENA & NCTM! @elenamsilla.bsky.social presents lab work @ PMENA in collab w/@damcotto.bsky.social. @meg-botello.bsky.social presents work w/@drteyar.bsky.social, @mandymathed.bsky.social & Dr. Jordan at NCTM. Lab Alum Dr. @kamalc31.bsky.social presents his UMaine work @ SREE tomorrow!

🚨 TODAY!! 🚨 Join us to learn about using Sharing Circles at 2pm ET. Hope to see you there!

Yin Chen, PhD@yinchen.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us on Friday, 6/20 at 2pm EST for the APA Div 15's Anti-Racist & Anti-Colonial Research Methods series! Our final event will focus on using Sharing Circles (a method rooted in traditional practices of many Indigenous communities) w/ Macy Bowman 🤩 Register ➡️: tiny.utk.edu/APADiv15SharingCircles

"We celebrate our history, and we celebrate our contributions to this country. We don’t have to have a proclamation from anyone else but ourselves." My Juneteenth Amendment column on resistance and radical imagination in the age of erasure w/@kayewhitehead: 19thnews.org/2025/06/june...

‘We don't wait to be celebrated’: What Juneteenth means this year

Thursday marks the first national observance under President Donald Trump of Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.

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