We have a wide range of faculty expertise across the department and within our Child and Adolescent Development Area. Check out more information below. I collaborate often with @koeun.bsky.social! Feel free to email me directly at chornburg@vt.edu if you have any questions!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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