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Caroline Hornburg
@cbhornburg.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Virginia Tech | Human Development and Family Science | Director of the VT Learning and Development Lab
Looking for a graduate program in HDFS? Virginia Tech is hosting a virtual info session on Nov. 5th - see details below! Check out bit.ly/HDFSGradVT for program information. I would love to add more students to the VT Learning and Development Lab team! Ph.D. program applications are due Dec. 1st.
October 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Excited to be in Hong Kong for #MCLS2025! I'll be presenting tomorrow on work from an NSF-funded study - see details below!
June 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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...
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May 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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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
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May 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Reposted by Caroline Hornburg
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...
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May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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
April 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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.
April 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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.
📣 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...
March 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Reposted by Caroline Hornburg
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 🙏🏾
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...
February 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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
December 13, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Reposted by Caroline Hornburg
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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November 21, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Reposted by Caroline Hornburg
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
November 5, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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
November 5, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Reposted by Caroline Hornburg
fund numerical cognition research!
Microsoft invested $13 billion in AI
June 25, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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
June 25, 2024 at 4:18 PM
New publication out in JECP with colleagues Mimah King, Lauren Westerberg, Sara Schmitt, and @davidjpurpura.bsky.social - longitudinal data with preschoolers! This link allows free access until July 13th or see the end of this thread for the public pre-proof link authors.elsevier.com/a/1j8rX51Y-T...
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May 29, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Come check out the work HDFS graduate students in the
Virginia Tech Learning and Development Lab are presenting at the Cognitive Development Society conference this week! #CDS2024 #PsychSciSky #devpsych #cogsci
March 20, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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I'm excited to present alongside these talented scholars, including my friend THE Dr. Deon Benton. Come join us! #CDS2024
As if you needed more reasons to attend #CDS2024: I'm excited to be speaking at the Early Career Symposium as one of the Early Career speakers. I'm even more excited to be doing it alongside my dear friend Dr. Miller-Cotto (@damcotto.bsky.social)

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December 21, 2023 at 11:32 PM
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⭐️ postdoc ad ⭐️
I’m hiring a postdoc to work on our bilingual (Spanish/English) math language e-book project!

careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Laf...

Please share with anyone who may be interested. First round of review starts January 15th. Position is for two years and pays $70,000/year.
Post Doc Research Associate
Post Doc Research Associate
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December 11, 2023 at 10:30 PM
Reposted by Caroline Hornburg
Publication alert! Check out our recently published efficacy study of ICUE, a supplemental math program for teaching children math equivalence. The sample included ~3000 students in CA. The study was led by Jodi Davenport at WestEd. Co-authors Yvonne Kao, Kristin Johannes, @cbhornburg.bsky.social
Improving Children’s Understanding of Mathematical Equivalence: An Efficacy Study
A vast majority of elementary students struggle with the core, pre-algebraic concept of mathematical equivalence. The Improving Children’s Understanding of Equivalence (ICUE) intervention integrate....
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December 9, 2023 at 1:14 PM
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We’re hiring! Purdue #HDFS is hiring an assistant professor! Come be my colleague!

careers.purdue.edu/job-invite/2...
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)
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November 1, 2023 at 4:35 PM
Interested in Ph.D. programs in HDFS? Come join us at Virginia Tech! Applications are due Jan. 5th. More info can be found in this flyer (rb.gy/5t9e56) and brochure (rb.gy/apncvk)! Check out more about my lab (Learning & Development Lab) at www.vtlearnlab.com. #psychscisky #phdsky #academicsky
November 3, 2023 at 5:19 PM
Reposted by Caroline Hornburg
This whole thread is very thoughtful and useful for those who conduct peer reviews. I am going to try and write more to the AE (including emphasizing strengths of the work), as I move forward. Thanks!
1. Serving as an action editor has changed how I write reviews for other journals. A thread on reviewing:
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky
October 18, 2023 at 4:34 PM