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Publications
Working Paper. “Tutor CoPilot: A human-AI approach for scaling real-time expertise” (with Rose E. Wang, Ana T. Ribeiro, Susanna Loeb, & Dora Demzsky).
2025. “The inequity of opt-in educational resources and an intervention to increase equitable access” (with Biraj Bisht and Susanna Loeb), Educational Researcher.
Working Paper. “Answering the call: How changes to the salience of job characteristics affects college students’ decisions” (with Katharine Meyer, Chasity Bailey-Fakhoury, Amirpasha Zandieh, & Susanna Loeb).
2025. “The effects of virtual tutoring on young readers: Results from a randomized controlled trial” (with Cynthia Pollard, Sarah Novicoff, Sara White, & Susanna Loeb), Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
2025. “A scalable approach to high-impact tutoring for young readers” (with Kalena Cortes, Karen Kortecamp, & Susanna Loeb), Learning and Instruction.
2024. “The illusion of information adequacy” (with Hunter Gehlbach and Angus Fletcher), PLOS ONE.
2024. “Bridging the novice-expert gap via models of decision-making: A case study on remediating math mistakes” (with Rose E. Wang, Qiyang Zhang, Susanna Loeb, & Dora Demzsky), Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies.
2022. “A framework for motivating teacher-student relationships” Educational Psychology Review.
2022. “Envisioning how photographs might address vexing educational challenges” (with Hunter Gehlbach, Nan Mu, Rohan Arcot, Claire Chuter, Kate Cornwall, Lisa Nehring, & Christine Vriesema), Contemporary Educational Psychology.
2022. “Parent Engagement Interventions are Not Costless: Opportunity Cost and Crowd Out of Parental Investment” (with Raj Chande, Simon Burgess & Todd Rogers), Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
2022. “Worth more than 1000 words: How photographs can bolster viewers’ valuing of biodiversity” (with Hunter Gehlbach, Christine C. Vriesema, Eduardo Bernal & Ursula K. Heise). Environmental Conservation.
2021. “From old school to open science: The implications of new research norms for educational psychology and beyond” (with Hunter Gehlbach), Educational Psychologist.
2021. “Using Behavioral Insights to Improve School Administrative Communications: The Case of Truancy Notifications” (with Jessica Lasky-Fink, Hedy Chang & Todd Rogers), Educational Researcher.
2021. “The Demotivating Effect (and Unintended Message) of Awards” (with Jana Gallus, Monica G. Lee & Todd Rogers), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
2019. “Taking it to the next level: A field experiment to improve instructor-student relationships in college” (with Whitney Scott & Michael Gottfried), AERA Open.
2019. “Leveraging cognitive consistency to nudge conservative climate change beliefs” (with Hunter Gehlbach & Christine C. Vriesema), Journal of Environmental Psychology.
2018. “Reducing student absenteeism in the early grades by targeting parental beliefs” (with Monica G. Lee, Eric Dearing & Todd Rogers), American Educational Research Journal.
2018. “Some middle school students want behavioral commitment devices (But take-up does not affect their behavior” (with Gonzalo Pons, Angela L. Duckworth & Todd Rogers), Frontiers in Psychology.
2018. “Mitigating illusory results through preregistration in education” (with Hunter Gehlbach), Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.
2018. “Questionnaires as interventions: can taking a survey increase teachers’ openness to student feedback surveys?” (with Hunter Gehlbach, Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh, Chris Benshoof & Jack Schneider), Educational Psychology.
2016. “Forecasting student achievement: The potential of natural language processing” (with Mike Yeomans, Christopher Hulleman & Hunter Gehlbach), In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge.
Working Papers
Working paper. “Does open access to quality educational resources reduce inequalities? Findings from an implementation of individualized tutoring to address pandemic-induced learning needs.”
Working paper. “The relationship between teacher absenteeism and exclusionary discipline” (with Kate Larned & Todd Rogers).
Working paper. “How teachers’ relational self-efficacy predicts the quality of their teacher-student relationships”
Book Chapters
In Press. “START communicating effectively” (with Jessica Lasky-Fink), In D. Soman & N. Mazar (Eds.), Behavioral Science in the Wild. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.
2021. “Education and Behavior” (with Thomas Lind Andersen, Clair Davison, Emir Demic, Hamish Evans, Mafalda Fontinha Mascarenhas, Shannon P. Gibson, Renata Hlavová, Wing Yi Lam, Silvana Mareva, Aleksandra Yosifova, & Kai Ruggeri), In K. Ruggeri (Ed.), Psychology and Behavioral Economics: Applications for Public Policy, 2nd Edition. New York, NY: Routledge.
2019. “Education” (with Kai Ruggeri, Renata Hlavova, Thomas Lind Andersen, Hamish Evans, & Silvana Mareva), In K. Ruggeri (Ed.), Behavioral Insights for Public Policy: Concepts and Cases, 131-155. New York, NY: Routledge.
2016. “Commentary: The Foundational Role of Teacher-Student Relationships” (with Hunter Gehlbach), In K.Wentzel & G. Ramani (Eds.), Social Influences on Social-Emotional, Motivation, and Cognitive Outcomes in School Contexts, 230-238. United Kingdom: Informa.
Policy Briefs
2021. “High-Impact Tutoring: State of the Research and Priorities for Future Learning” (with Susanna Loeb). Annenberg Institute at Brown University: Ed Working Paper Series.
2021. “Accelerating Student Learning with High-Dosage Tutoring” (with Matthew A. Kraft, Susanna Loeb, & Beth E. Schueler), EdResearch for Recovery Brief Series.
2016. “Creating birds of a feather: The potential of similarity to connect teachers and students” (with Hunter Gehlbach), Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute.