APHD Colloquium: Using precision education to understand learning differences
91Ö±²¥
252 Bloor Street West
Room 9-105
Toronto ON M5S 1V6
Canada
How and why do children differ in their development of reading and math skills? This talk will focus on the broad idea that there is heterogeneity in the development of reading and math skills, summarizing how individual differences data can be used to better understand individual students, often referred to as precision education.
Research focused on identifying the sources of individual differences of reading and math skills, including findings that have identified important genetic and contextual factors that impact the development of these constructs, will be presented. Implications for practice and future research plans will be discussed through the lens of application in school settings.
Event Agenda
- 1:00 - 2:00 PM: Presentation
- 2:00 - 2:30 PM: Audience Q&A
About the Speaker
Dr. Sara Hart
Dr. Sara A. Hart is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Developmental Science and Professor of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Broadly, her substantive research relates to understanding how and why people differ in their cognitive development, particularly focused on reading and math development. Most of her work to date has focused on using twin and genomic methods to understand the "nature" and "nurture" of child development. She examines the role of an individual’s genetic variants and contexts in predicting school achievement and intervention response. She also contributes to the field of meta-science, understanding how scientists do science, with a particular interest in supporting rigorous and reproducible educational and developmental science. With colleagues, she built a data repository, LDbase, to support the data sharing and data access needs of scientists working in fields of developmental science related to education.
Beyond her research, she is passionate about mentoring, dissemination of research, and advocating for women and otherwise minoritized individuals in science.
