Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab

Directed by @cbhornburg | At @Virginia_Tech @VT_HDFS | We study how children think and learn in early and middle childhood | #cognition #development #education

[Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab @VTLearnLab]

Check it out! A large RCT demonstrated the efficacy of our intervention to improve children's understanding of math equivalence. https://t.co/rFT4eufCIh Materials and videos are freely available (see below):

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

All intervention materials and videos are freely available: https://t.co/KdSZqJNLsd Thanks to @ACEatND for creating videos of the 4 components: 1) introducing = before arithmetic, 2) nontraditional arithmetic practice, 3) concreteness fading, and 4) comparison and explanation

[Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab @VTLearnLab]

Congratulations to Dr. Maegan Colbert, who successfully defended her dissertation today! 👏

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

The @VTLearnLab is excited to present at the Cognitive Development Society conference in Montreal! #CDS2026

See below for info about our posters led by graduate students and collaborators, including Maegan Colbert, @Alvegorova, Isabel Valdivia, and @msamigurdal!

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

My newest paper is out! Led by @VT_HDFS @VTLearnLab alumna @jisun_Kim57, with @GillianGrose, Tess Levinson, and @lkfazio.

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

I'm excited to announce #SRCD25 conference presentations led by current and former grad students in the @VTLearnLab! Isabel (PhD Candidate) is presenting a poster from a project with another collaborator in @VT_HDFS, Dr. Ben Katz! @SRCDtweets #SRCD2025

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

Check out the work being presented at #AERA2025 led by @VT_HDFS grad students in the @VTLearnLab! Thanks to @aerdf for funding the Our Math World project (data Maegan is presenting), with co-authors @jisun_Kim57 @TamikaMcElveen @sarahpowellphd @salg274 @davidjpurpura and others!

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

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 @VT_HDFS and @VT_CS.

[Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab @VTLearnLab]

Please spread the word - Applications for our PhD program in HDFS (Child and Adolescent Development Area) are due 12/1!

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

🔍 Looking for a PhD program in HDFS? Join us at @VT_HDFS! Check out https://t.co/DCq5c3ejgO for more information and see our Child and Adolescent Development area faculty below. @_KChoi @BrittanyRHowell @DrCindySmith @RoseWesche

Applications are due Dec. 1st!

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

We co-created these books alongside a children's book author and illustrator, many educators, students, and researchers on the OMW team. Net proceeds from purchases on Amazon will go toward the creation of new educational books for children! https://t.co/4D1nNVvE1K

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

The @VTLearnLab had a great time presenting our work and connecting with colleagues in D.C. at #MCLS2024 recently! Kudos to @VT_HDFS grad students Maegan and Isabel who each led posters!

[Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab @VTLearnLab]

The @VTLearnLab is headed to D.C. this week to disseminate our research! Come say hello if you follow our account and will be there!

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

Come check out the work @VT_HDFS graduate students in the @VTLearnLab and I are presenting at the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society conference this week! #MCLS2024
@MCLStrainee

[Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab @VTLearnLab]

Check out the newest research from the @VTLearnLab @VT_HDFS! Results highlight the important role of math language skills in children's numeracy development. Stay tuned for more related work that grad student Isabel Valdivia will present at #MCLS2024 @mathcogsociety

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

New publication out in JECP with colleagues Mimah King @laurwesterberg @SaraAnneSchmitt and @davidjpurpura - 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 https://t.co/aiBEG4JPD3

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

Kudos to our @VTLearnLab @VT_HDFS students who led poster presentations at #CDS2024 last week! Great work Isabel, Maegan, and @jisun_Kim57!

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

Delighted to have a joint lab dinner with @_KChoi at #CDS2024, and with @vdiaz_psy as well! Excited to see how this group grows in the future!

[Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab @VTLearnLab]

The @VTLearnLab is headed to Pasadena to disseminate our research! Posters led by @jisun_Kim57 (with @_KChoi and others), and coauthors from the Our Math World team: @TamikaMcElveen @danacotto @EricDWilkey @andyribner @nprishker @salg274 @sarahpowellphd @davidjpurpura and more!

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

Come check out the work @VT_HDFS graduate students in the @VTLearnLab are presenting at the Cognitive Development Society conference this week! #CDS2024 @cogdevsoc @MCLStrainee

[Virginia Tech Liberal Arts @VT_LiberalArts]

“Having someone at the center who is able to sign with Bennett has made a huge impact on his life.” - Sheree Andrews, Bennett's mom. 🫶

The @VT_HDFS Child Development Center for Learning and Research offers amazing opportunities for parents and students.
https://t.co/wSfSyTrHoh

[Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab @VTLearnLab]

Members of the Learning and Development Lab contributed to the co-design of the Our Math World curriculum materials. We are so excited to see this compilation of our work for the past 3 years alongside other projects also funded by @aerdf's EF+Math program!

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

Excited to share this video featuring the Our Math World project I lead (funded by @aerdf). We co-designed a curriculum overlay with educators and students that builds math identity, executive function, problem solving, and math vocabulary skills. https://t.co/hsGiy7pZIj

[Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab @VTLearnLab]

The most recent study @VTLearnLab is collaborating on! Check out the post below- we are recruiting 3-6 year olds and their parents to participate in a zoom study!

[Koeun Choi @_KChoi]

📣We are recruiting 3- to 6-year-old children and their parents for a study on storybook reading with conversational AI agents (online). Details are below ⬇️. Please share this with anyone interested!📖

Fill out this form to schedule the first meeting:
https://t.co/0vwOeMDneE

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

Check it out! Our team co-developed these books alongside educators and students as part of the Our Math World project funded by @aerdf. The materials are being modified after feedback from the last round of piloting, and we will eventually make them all publicly available!

[Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab @VTLearnLab]

New @NSF grant funded for the @VTLearnLab! Our team is excited to get this work started over the summer alongside the @ICATatVT Center for Educational Networks and Impacts!

[Caroline Hornburg @cbhornburg]

New pub! We found that children who had higher relational thinking skills in kindergarten had a better understanding of the equal sign by second grade than their peers with lower relational thinking skills in kindergarten. Check out the public pre-proof in the thread below: