Elizabeth Gunderson
@GundersonLab
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Professor @IUPsychBrain, psychology researcher studying children's math learning and motivation.
Joined August 2018
Calling prospective PhD students! The @IUPsychBrain PhD application deadline is Dec. 1st. I’m looking for students interested in math cognition, academic motivation, and parent influences. Lab: Program:
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**Job alert!** Full-time lab manager position in my lab.@IUPsychBrain. Projects focus on spatial and numerical skills & motivation, and the role of parent-child interactions. Apply here:
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I am hiring a postdoc to start this summer in my lab.@IUPsychBrain, on an NSF-funded project on preschoolers’ flexible attention to magnitudes (intersection of numerical cognition and executive function). Apps can be submitted here: Please share!.
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I am excited to be recruiting new PhD students to Indiana University @IUPsychBrain to study preschool numeracy, math language, executive functioning, spatial skills, beliefs about effort, and more. Prospective students, please reach out if you are interested!.
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**Job alert!** Full-time lab manager and postdoc positions in my lab @IUPsychBrain. Positions are NSF-funded and focus on preschoolers’ flexible attention to magnitudes. Lab managers: Postdocs: Please share!.
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Some news – I just started a new position as a Professor at @IUBloomington! @Temple_Psych has been a great intellectual home for the past 10 years, and I am excited for new opportunities at @IUPsychBrain. I will be hiring a lab manager and postdoc ASAP – stay tuned.
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Come see our posters at #mcls2023! Session 1 today at 1pm: @_TIANJing on a home spatial play intervention (poster #3) and @NadiaTavassolie on a preschool mental rotation book reading study (#11). Session 3 tomorrow: Xinhe Zhang on magnitude cues and number line estimation (#14).
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Overall, the results highlight the importance of language in math learning, and suggest that decomposed labels and common-unit labels may be beneficial for teaching different aspects of decimal magnitude knowledge.
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. and reduced incorrect reliance on the hundredths digit for comparisons (e.g., incorrectly saying that 0.39 is more than 0.74 because 9 is greater than 4). (4/x).
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Common-unit labels (“sixty-eight hundredths”) had some benefits too - they reduced the tendency to say that decimals with more digits are larger (e.g., incorrectly saying that 0.51 is greater than 0.7) (3/x).
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Decomposed labels reduced misconceptions about the meaning of zero: children who learned to say “six tenths and eight hundredths” were less likely to incorrectly say that 0.68 is the same amount as 0.068 and more likely to correctly say that 0.68 is the same as 0.680. (2/x).
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How do you say “0.68”? Does it matter for learning? We taught 5th & 6th graders to use either decomposed labels (six tenths and eight hundredths), common-unit labels (sixty-eight hundredths), or point labels (point six eight). @_TIANJing @Ren_Kexin (1/x).
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Finally, fiber arts are typically intrinsically motivating, and may encourage viewing failure as an opportunity for learning. Altogether, this can open new avenues into our understanding of spatial cognition and interventions to enhance spatial skills and motivation! (4/4).
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We suggest that engaging in fiber arts might be an effective means of improving spatial skills. This is notable because fiber arts are stereotypically feminine, in contrast to the male-gender-typing of many spatial activities like block and Lego construction. (3/4).
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We outline how fiber arts practices map onto intrinsic vs. extrinsic and static vs. dynamic spatial thinking. We note that non-rigid, ductile transformations - like bending a string or fabric - are an understudied aspect of spatial skill. (2/4).
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New paper! @GraceBennettPi and I review how knitting, crochet, and other fiber arts relate to spatial skills, gender, and motivation. .(1/4)
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New paper from our lab! Spatial skills in 4th grade longitudinally predict students' STEM major choice and help explain gender differences. Math self-concept is a major mediator. @_TIANJing led the study and explains it better than I could below.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Using a national longitudinal dataset (SECCYD; N = 690), we showed that 4th-grade spatial skills directly predicted choosing STEM majors in college, above and beyond math and verbal achievement,...
Despite the tremendous progress women have made in education and the workforce over the past 50 years, men continue to dominate STEM domains. Why do fewer women than men pursue STEM fields in college and beyond?.
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RT @GundersonLab: I am hiring a postdoc for an international collaboration on preschool numeracy! We'll start reviewing applications Nov. 1….
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