Conference Presentations

This powerpoint presentation gave findings from an evaluation of PBS KIDS! materials showing the efficacy of digital videos and games for improving children's computational thinking skills. 

Conference poster reporting results of a study that explored how parents and caregivers in low-income communities support young children's learning.

This presentation describes results of two landmark studies, the Ready To Learn Landmark Study and the Ready To Learn Intergenerational Learning Study.

Conference poster on findings from an RCT and replication study on Molly of Denali digital materials as supports for young children's use of informational text. Presented at the 2023 Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress. 

Conference poster on public media and children's learning, presented at the 2023 Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress. 

Powerpoint presentation on the role of digital media in helping young children learn informational text, from the Society for Research in Child Development 2023 Bienniel Meeting.

Conference poster presenting a study that explored the impact of the PBS KIDS Play & Learn Science app in a supportive context.

Conference poster reporting findings of a study on the use of digital media to support early science learning.

PowerPoint presentation discussing a pilot study of educational media-based intervention and related conceptual and methodological issues.

Conference poster presenting a study of the implementation of a workshop designed to introduce coding to low-income families and their young children.

PowerPoint presentation of the findings from a national study of how parents and caregivers view their role in supporting their young children's science learning.

PowerPoint presentation of findings from a national study of how families with young children use science media for learning.

PowerPoint presentation of two studies of classroom use of Ready To Learn digital media, for literacy and for math.

Interactive session exploring ways to use public media resources to engage families with young children in hands-on science exploration.

PowerPoint presentation comparing three RTL randomized controlled trial studies.

New York Hall of Science presentation of our research report, "What Parents Talk About When They Talk About Learning: A National Survey About Young Children and Science."

A PowerPoint presentation of our research report, "What Parents Talk About When They Talk About Learning: A National Survey About Young Children and Science."

This poster updates our findings from a randomized control trial on media-supported early math learning.

This PowerPoint presentation summarizes the development of counting and patterns in preschoolers and illustrates how they are used in a public transmedia asset.

This poster addresses parental attitudes regarding the potential and pitfalls of home media and technology use.

This poster describes what we’ve learned thus far in our study of digital resources for early childhood education, including approaches to classroom use of media, ways children experience media in the classroom, and roles teachers take in supporting children’s media use.

This poster presents findings from our randomized controlled trial examining the use of technology and educational digital games and videos to enhance mathematics teaching and learning in underserved preschools.

This PowerPoint presents key findings on the uses of digital resources in classrooms when teaching early math and literacy.

This paper, presented at the 2016 AERA conference, discusses the development of an early mathematics assessment developed to evaluate the impact of a home intervention designed to promote young children's mathematics learning.

This conference paper describes a study focused on early mathematics learning through integrating transmedia and hands-on activities.

This conference presentation covers research, evaluation, and social marketing studies on the development of literacy-based television shows, online games, and instructional materials, all of which were designed to promote the early literacy skills of traditionally underserved young children and change the literacy-related behaviors of their parents and caregivers.

This conference presentation describes a randomized control study that investigated whether a multimedia early literacy intervention implemented by teachers in early childhood centers positively impacts low-income children’s early literacy skills.