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The Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) is home to multidisciplinary research on human learning and education. Our research spans a wide range from the neural bases of learning and memory, through literacy, language, reasoning, and STEM learning, the social and developmental contexts that affect educational attainment and equity, and to large-scale efforts for educational improvement. We are pleased to share some of our research with the University of Pittsburgh community and the wider learning and educational sciences communities through these occasional reports of the LRDC Research News, prepared by Elizabeth Rangel, LRDC Director of Communications. See the LRDC website for more on
Center research.
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Structural Racism: Less Opportunity for Children's Healthy Development
LRDC's Lorraine Blatt, Portia Miller, Daniesha S. Hunter-Rue, Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, and Michigan State University's Richard Sadler study how structural racism in the built environment is strongly related to children’s opportunities for healthy growth and development. Read a summary here.
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Investigating the Relations between Self-efficacy and Achievement Goals on Science Learning
A goal for science education is for students to go beyond rote memorization of procedures, to learn a set of underlying concepts ready-for-use in new situations. Kelly Boden, Timothy Nokes-Malach, and their colleagues investigate how to reach that goal. Read the article summary.
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Benefits of Math Activities Depend on the Skills Children Bring to the Table
Alex Silver, Leanne Elliot, Andy Ribner and Melissa Libertus investigate how math activities are differentially related to children’s math achievement. Read a summary of this research.
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Ashley Gives Invited Talk in Peru
LRDC Senior Scientist Kevin Ashley delivered an invited talk at the Aula Magna XXVII Conference hosted by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima. Read more about the award and conference.
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Partner with Us to Support LRDC Graduate Students
February 27, 2024, is the Pitt Day of Giving. Your gift to LRDC means we can expand initiatives that support LRDC graduate students. Last year's funds helped the Center increase the budget of the Graduate Student Council (GSC) (see below) and offer more graduate students support to continue their studies and research. More information to come.
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GSC Announces Award Recipients
The LRDC Graduate Student Council (GSC) provides financial support for the development of new, innovative, interdisciplinary research conducted by graduate students within LRDC. Kudos to recipients of the Fall 2023 awards: Nabila Jamal-Orozco, Morgan Gray, Lorraine Blatt, and Zhexiong Liu. Read more about the recipients.
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Passings
Tony Eichelberger an influential scholar in the field of education research, and former LRDC faculty member, passed away on January 9, 2024. To learn more about Dr. Eichelberger's life, his obituary can be found here. A memorial service will be held at Heinz Chapel on Friday, May 7, from 2 to 4 p.m.
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Bacas, E., Kahhalé, I., Raamana, P. R., Pablo, J. B., Anand, A. S., & Hanson, J. L. (2023). Probing multiple algorithms to calculate brain age: Examining reliability, relations with demographics, and predictive power. Human Brain Mapping.
Chrabaszcz, A., Gebremedhen, N., I., Alvarez, T., A., Durisko, C., & Fiez, J., A. (2023). Orthographic learning in adults overt and covert reading. Acta Psychologica.
Fox, D., Elliott, L., Bachman, H. J., Votruba-Drzal, E., & Libertus, M. (2023). Diversity of spatial activities and parents’ spatial talk complexity predict preschoolers’ gains in spatial skills. Child Development.
Kruzik, C., Coley, R.L., Votruba-Drzal, E., Spielvogel, B., Henry, D. A., & Betancur, L. (2023). The early emergence of SES achievement gaps: Disparities across race, ethnicity, and immigrant status. Race and Social Problems, Advance Online Publication.
Leyva, D., Libertus, M., & McGregor, R. (2023). Math intervention targeting family routines increases parental math talk and home math activities. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
Libertus, M., E. (2023). Parent-focused interventions to support children’s early math learning. Sage Journals.
Maeroff, D., Fraundorf, S., & Getty, D. J. (2023). Auditory stimuli preferences and reading comprehension in the classroom. Cambridge Journal of Human Behavior.
McKellar, S., E., Mathews, C., J., Greene, A., M., & Wang, M. (2023). Achievement at what cost? An intersectional approach to assessing race and gender differences in adolescent math motivation and achievement. Contemporary Educational Psychology.
Palacios-Barrios, E., E., Patel, K., Hanson, J., L. (2023). Early life interpersonal stress and depression: Social reward processing as a potential mediator. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry.
Premo, A. E., Russell, J. L., Duff, M. (2023). From improvement to relationship management: A case study of data artifact creation and use in a school improvement network. School Effectiveness and School Improvement.
Savelka, J., & Ashley, K., D. (2023). The unreasonable effectiveness of large language models in zero-shot semantic annotation of legal texts. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
Walsh, M., E., Matsumura, L., C., Zook-Howell, D., & Correnti, R. (2023). Dialogic coaching routines to develop teachers’ adaptive expertise in video-based coaching. International Society of the Learning Sciences.
*LRDC researchers' names appear in boldface
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