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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Forthcoming. “Interpreting null effects in education: Insights from a tutoring experiment” (with Elizabeth Huffaker, Emanuele Bardelli, Sara White & Susanna Loeb), American Educational Research Journal.
2026. “Answering the call: How changes to the salience of job characteristics affects college students’ decisions” (with Katharine E. Meyer, Chasity Bailey-Fakhoury, Amirpasha Zandieh & Susanna Loeb), Social Science Research.
2026. “The impact of high impact tutoring on student attendance: Evidence from a state initiative” (with Monica G. Lee & Susanna Loeb), AERA Open.
2026. “The impact of tutor gender match on girls’ STEM interest, engagement, and performance” (with Joshua Bleiberg, Evan Bennett & Susanna Loeb), American Educational Research Journal.
2026. “The power of personalized attention: Comparing pedagogical approaches in small group and one-on-one early literacy tutoring” (with Hsiaolin Hsieh, David Gormley & Susanna Loeb), Education Sciences.
2025. “Integrating open science principles into quasi-experimental research” (with Blake H. Heller), Social Sciences.
2025. “The inequity of opt-in educational resources and an intervention to increase equitable access” (with Biraj Bisht & Susanna Loeb), Educational Researcher.
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 & Angus Fletcher), PLOS ONE.
2022. “A framework for motivating teacher-student relationships,” Educational Psychology Review.
2022. “Addressing the vexing educational challenges of biodiversity loss: A photo-based intervention” (with Hunter Gehlbach, Nan Mu, Rohan Arcot, Claire Chuter, Kate Cornwall, Lisa Nehring & Christine C. 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 behavior 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.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
2026. “From search engine to thought partner: What do teachers use AI chatbots for?” (with Ana T. Ribeiro, Benjamin Leivas, Chris Agnew & Susanna Loeb), Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.
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 Demszky), Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
2016. “Forecasting student achievement: The potential of natural language processing” (with Mike Yeomans, Christopher Hulleman & Hunter Gehlbach), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge.
Working Papers
Forthcoming. “A research agenda for learning and schooling in the age of AI” (with Chris Agnew & Susanna Loeb), SCALE Initiative, Stanford University.
Under review. “A field experiment exploring the impact of bolstering teachers’ relational self-efficacy on teacher-student relationships.”
Under review. “Tutor CoPilot: A human-AI approach for scaling real-time expertise” (with Rose E. Wang, Ana T. Ribeiro, Susanna Loeb & Dora Demszky).
Under review. “Access is not enough: Human support improves engagement with AI tutoring” (with David Gormley, Ana T. Ribeiro & Susanna Loeb).
Under review. “Beyond the one-teacher model: Experimental evidence on using embedded paraprofessionals as personalized instructors” (with Elizabeth Huffaker, Monica G. Lee, Helen Zhou & Susanna Loeb).
Under review. “Early literacy tutoring and children’s reading trajectories: Evidence from a four-year randomized controlled trial” (with Jilli Jung, Tye Ripma, Kalena Cortes, Karen Kortecamp & Susanna Loeb).
Under review. “Understanding disruptions: Causes of and variation in lost instructional time” (with Xander Beberman, Sarah Novicoff, Ana T. Ribeiro & Susanna Loeb).
Under review. “Tutor traits and student achievement: Evidence from a randomized experiment” (with Elizabeth Huffaker, Bess Levin Markel & Susanna Loeb).
Book Chapters
2026. “Tutoring” (with Susanna Loeb), Live Handbook of Education Policy Research, Association for Education Finance and Policy.
2022. “START communicating effectively: Best practices for educational communications” (with Jessica Lasky-Fink), Behavioral Science in the Wild, 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), Psychology and Behavioral Economics: Applications for Public Policy (2nd ed.), Routledge.
2019. “Education” (with Kai Ruggeri, Renata Hlavová, Thomas Lind Andersen, Hamish Evans & Silvana Mareva), Behavioral Insights for Public Policy: Concepts and Cases, Routledge.
2016. “Commentary: The foundational role of teacher-student relationships” (with Hunter Gehlbach), Social Influences on Social-Emotional, Motivation, and Cognitive Outcomes in School Contexts, Routledge.
Policy Briefs and Other Writing
2026. “Even with human help, kids need motivation to use AI tutors. The question is what” (with Meghan McCormick), The 74.
2025. “Implementation of the OSSE high impact tutoring initiative: School year 2023-2024 second year” (with Amanda Lu, Nancy Waymack, Demetra Kalogrides, Monica G. Lee & Susanna Loeb), National Student Support Accelerator.
2024. “Design principles for accelerating student learning with high-impact tutoring” (with Matthew A. Kraft, Susanna Loeb & Beth E. Schueler), EdResearch for Action.
2024. “Implementation of the OSSE high impact tutoring initiative: First year report, school year 2022-2023” (with Cynthia Pollard, Amanda Lu, Amirpasha Zandieh, Demetra Kalogrides, Susanna Loeb & Nancy Waymack), National Student Support Accelerator.
2024. “Connecting college students with enriching work experiences” (with Katharine Meyer & Susanna Loeb), Brookings, Brown Center Chalkboard.
2023. “The effects of virtual tutoring on young readers: Results from a randomized controlled trial” (with Susanna Loeb, Sarah Novicoff, Cynthia Pollard & Sara White), National Student Support Accelerator.
2023. “A scalable approach to high-impact tutoring for young readers: Results of a randomized controlled trial” (with Kalena Cortes, Karen Kortecamp & Susanna Loeb), National Student Support Accelerator.
2022. “The good and bad of virtual on-demand tutoring” (with Susanna Loeb), Brookings, Brown Center Chalkboard.
2022. “Do teachers support high-impact tutoring? A survey experiment” (with Monica G. Lee), Annenberg Institute at Brown University.
2021. “High-impact tutoring: State of the research and priorities for future learning” (with Susanna Loeb), EdWorkingPaper No. 21-384, Annenberg Institute at Brown University.
2021. “Accelerating student learning with high-dosage tutoring” (with Matthew A. Kraft, Susanna Loeb & Beth E. Schueler), EdResearch for Recovery.
2020. “Write less to say more: How schools can communicate more effectively with families” (with Todd Rogers), The 74.
2020. “Reflections on the registered report process for ‘Taking it to the next level’” (with Whitney Scott & Michael Gottfried), AERA Open.
2019. “We must raise the bar for evidence in education” (with Todd Rogers), Education Week.
2019. “How to tackle student absenteeism” (with Todd Rogers), Education Next.
2018. “Weaning educational research off of steroids” (with Hunter Gehlbach), Shanker Institute.
2016. “Creating birds of a feather: The potential of similarity to connect teachers and students” (with Hunter Gehlbach), American Enterprise Institute.