Talks

Conference Talks presented by INSTRUCT researchers

Fu, W. L., Fischer, N. L., Kalaivanan, K., Ong, G. S. T., Oh, A. J., Tripathi, S., Ellefson, M. R., Seow, P., Teo, C. L., & Hung, D. (2024, November 7-8). Crossing Valley: Development of a serious game to measure cognitive flexibility in a problem-solving context [Conference talk]. Joint Conference on Serious Games 2024, New York, NY, United States.

Said, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2024, August 28). Examining the roles of executive functions and motivation in supporting conceptual change in physics learning [Symposium contribution]. In the Junior Researchers of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction [Symposium], The 13th International Conference on Conceptual Change, Munich, Germany.

Sandıkçı, M., & Ögel-Balaban, H. (2024, July 21-26). Bilingual autobiographical memory: Effect of language and temporal direction on episodic specificity [Conference talk]. The 33rd International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic.

Zheng, J., Xu, C., Ellefson, M. R., & Hughes, C. (2024, June 15-20). How do parent-teacher-child dynamics contribute to Chinese children’s school readiness? A multi-informant multi-method investigation [Conference talk]. The 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.

Lončarević, B., Ögel-Balaban, H., Wang, R., & Ellefson, M. R. (2024, May 30). Individual Differences in executive functions and desirable difficulties: a case of interleaving practice [Conference talk]. Kaleidoscope 2024. Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Wang, Q. (2024, March 12). Pathway from socioeconomic status to arithmetic skills: The role of executive function [Conference talk]. STORIES Conference 2024. Oxford, United Kingdom.

Wang, Q. (2024, May 30). Exploring the role of executive function in the socioeconomic status and arithmetic skills relationship among preschool children in mainland China [Conference talk]. Kaleidoscope 2024. Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Wang, Q. (2024, July 25). Mindful parenting and adolescents’ behaviour problems: The moderating role of family structure [Conference talk]. Cambridge China Education Forum Conference 2024. Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Tsapali, M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2023, August 22-26). Effects of different learning environments on students’ socio-scientific decision-making [Conference talk]. The 20th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece. 

Tsigaridis, K. G., Wang, R., Zheng, J., & Ellefson, M. R. (2023, August 22-26). Do science and non-science students similarly use executive function skills in maths and physics? [Conference talk]. The 20th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece. 

Alrushoud, I., Wang, R., & Tsigardis, G. K. (2023, June 24). ‪Doing psychology research in schools: A reflection of PhD students from international contexts [Conference talk]. Kaleidoscope 2023, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Yang, Y., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, July 27-30). Feedback-related and task-dependent post-error slowing [Conference talk]. The 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Virtual.

Zonneveld, A. K., Serpell, Z., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, June 27-29). Executive function measurement in urban schools [Conference talk]. Meeting of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Sciences Conference 2022, Victoria, BC, Canada.

Tsigaridis, K. G., Wang, R., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, May 26-27). Investigating the understanding of physics concepts and physics problem-solving in high school students: The role of executive functions and mathematical skills [Conference talk]. Kaleidoscope 2022, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Said, T. (2022, March 11). Online data collection in psychology research: Pros & cons [Conference talk]. Cambridge Economic & Social Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 

Jussli, H., & Tsapali, M. (2021, September 29- October 1). The impact of adversities and resilience factors in adolescence on adolescent depressive symptoms [Conference talk]. The 7th International Symposium on Resilience Research, Virtual. 

Paes, T. M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2021, September 15-17). Guided pretend play and preschoolers’ language and self-regulation skills: Is it efficacious? [Symposium contribution]. In E. Blakey (Chair), A comprehensive look at children’s academic skills: The role of cognition, socio-economic factors and the learning environment [Symposium]. British Psychological Society Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference 2021, Virtual.

Apedoe, X. S., Ellefson, M. R., & Schunn, C. D. (2021 August 30-September 3). Improving students’ micro-macro chemistry reasoning [Symposium contribution]. In H. Stammes (Chair) A comprehensive look at children’s academic skills: Comparing collected insights on design-based learning, teaching and tools for STEM education. The 14th Annual Conference of European Science Education Research Association, Braga, Portugal.

Tsapali, M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2021, August 30- September 3). The effects of a socio-scientific decision-making intervention on Greek students’ knowledge and attitudes towards vegetarianism [Conference talk]. The 14th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association, Braga, Portugal.

Wang, R., Britton, A., Godfrey, H., Feeney, A., & Ellefson, M. R. (2021, June 30-July 3). Executive functions and the suppression of naïve thinking in science education: A cognitive psychology task exploring the relationship between inhibition ability, cognitive flexibility and science learning [Conference talk]. Australasian Science Education Research Association 2021, Adelaide, Australia.

Yang, Y. (2021, June 3). Why open access can disrupt the power structure in publications [Conference talk]. Kaleidoscope 2021, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Major, L., Francis, G. A., & Tsapali, M. (2021, April 25-May 2). The role of digital technology in supporting personalised learning in low- and middle-income countries: A meta-analysis [Conference talk]. The 65th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Virtual.

Tsapali, M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2020, September 9-10). Challenges in utilising think-aloud tasks with primary school children [Conference talk]. The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction Conference, SIG17 Conference on Methods in Learning Research, Vienna, Austria.

Paes, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2019, August 12-16). Intervention of pretend play on children’s self-regulation and language skills [Conference talk]. The 18th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction Conference, Aachen, Germany.

Tsapali, M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2019, August 12-16). Effects of different learning environments on students' decision-making competence [Conference talk]. The 18th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction Conference, Aachen, Germany.

Patel, J. (2019, June 20-21). Conceptualizing learning to live together harmoniously in Indian contexts [Conference talk]. Global Perspectives: Re-imagining Education Conference, British Education Research Association, Worcester, United Kingdom.

Paes, T. (2019, June 6). Does pretend play have an impact on preschoolers’ self-regulation and language skills? [Conference talk]. INSTRUCT Symposium, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Turner, G. (2019, June 6). Life-worthy learning skills: An intervention to promote the development of self-regulated learning skills [Conference talk]. INSTRUCT Symposium, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Patel, J., & Bayley, S. (2019, May). Translating concepts and theoretical frameworks to inform research tools in an international development setting [Conference talk]. Research for Equitable Access and Learning Seminar Series, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Tsapali, M., & Zonneveld, A. K. (2019, May 30-31). Embracing open science: What, why, how [Conference talk]. Kaleidoscope 2019, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Paes, T. (2019, May 4). Does pretend play improve preschoolers’ language and self-regulation skills? [Conference talk]. Rebels Conference 2019 – Celebrating Radical Women from the Past, Present and Future, Newnham College, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Turner, G. (2019, May). My EdD journey so far [Conference talk]. EdD Research Community Meeting, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. 

Patel, J. (2018, November 27). Learning to live together: Pilot study findings [Conference talk]. The 27th Biennial International Peace Research Association Conference, Ahmedabad, India.

Patel, J., Aldercotte, A., Tsapali, M., Serpell, Z., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2018, November 15-18). The Zoo task: Metacognition in problem-solving for older children [Conference talk]. The 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Paes, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2018, September 9-12). The efficacy of a pretend play intervention on the development of children’s language and pre-literacy skills [Conference talk]. Annual Meeting of the British Education Research Association, Newcastle, United Kingdom.

Tsapali, M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2018, September 9-12). Designing valid, reliable and rich classroom-based experiments: Empirical insight from a study exploring the effects of different learning environments on primary school students’ decision making skills [Conference talk]. Annual Meeting of the British Education Research Association, Newcastle, United Kingdom.

Lai, P. Y. R., Ellefson, M. R., Ng, F. F. Wang, Q., & Hughes, C. (2018, June). Do executive functioning and metacognition have similar roles in literacy skills? [Conference talk]. Annual Meeting of the Chinese Education Research Association, London, United Kingdom. 

Ellefson, M. R., Zachariou, A. R. A, Ng, F. F., Wang, Q., & Hughes, C. (2018, June 2). Cross-cultural differences in links between EF and SES [Symposium contribution]. In E. Blakey (Chair), Socio-economic status and childhood outcomes [Symposium]. The 48th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Patel, J. (2018, June). How & why teachers teach for ‘Learning To Live Together’ [Conference talk]. Research for Equitable Access and Learning Seminar Series at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Tsapali, M. (2018, May 30-31). Designing valid, reliable and rich classroom-based experiments: Empirical insight from a study exploring the effects of different learning environments on primary school students’ decision making skills [Conference talk]. Kaleidoscope 2018, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Lai, P. Y. R., Ellefson, M. R., Ng, F. F., Wang, Q., & Hughes, C. (2018, January 30). The contribution of executive functioning and metacognition on academic outcomes [Conference talk]. Oxford University Hong Kong Scholar Association, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Ellefson, M. R., Zachariou, A., Ng, F., Wang, Q., & Hughes, C. (2017, September 13-15). Can EF explain the longstanding links between SES and school outcomes? [Conference talk]. British Psychological Society Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference 2017, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.

Hughes, C., Ng, F., Wang, Q., & Ellefson, M. R. (2017, September 13-15). Does executive function in school-aged children show culturally specific or universal associations with parenting quality? Findings from the UK and Hong Kong [Conference talk]. British Psychological Society Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference 2017, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.

Zachariou, A., Ellefson, M. R., Ng, F. F., Wang, Q., & Hughes, C. (2017, September 1). Predicting academic achievement from EF and SES: Differences by gender and culture [Conference talk]. The 18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Tsapali, M., Quinn, C., Ellefson, M., Schlottmann, A. & Taber, K. S. (2017, August 21-25). Progress in primary school children's understandings of materials and their composition: A cross-age qualitative survey [Conference talk]. The 12th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association, Dublin, Ireland.

Tsapali, M., Iordanaki, L., Chowdhuri, M. N., & Chiong, C. (2017, June 20). Kaleidoscope and CORERJ reviewing process: shared learnings from our experiences [Conference talk]. Kaleidoscope 2017, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Serpell, Z., Washington-Nortey, M., Riley, T., Aldercotte, A., Kim, H., Foster, A., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2017, April 6-8). Exploring links between parenting, executive functions and emotion regulation in a low-income African American sample [Symposium Contribution]. In C. Hughes (Chair), How universal, specific and predictive are parental influences on children’s executive functions? [Symposium]. The 77th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Houston, TX, United States.

Ellefson, M. R., Quinn, C., Tsapali, M., Schlottmann, A., & Taber, K. S. (2016, November 17-20). Property induction about mixing [Conference talk]. The 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA, United States.

Tsapali, M., Quinn, C., Ellefson, M. R., Schlottmann, A., & Taber, K. S. (2016, September 7-10). Progress in primary school children’s understandings of dissolving: A cross-age qualitative survey [Conference talk]. European Conference on Research in Chemical Education, Barcelona, Spain.

Turner, G. (2016, June). Mapping literatures: Delights and filemmas [Confernece talk]. University of Cambridge Faculty of Education EdD Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Francis, G. (2016, May). Exploring the links between executive functions & academic achievement [Conference talk]. Kaleidoscope 2016, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Tsapali, M. (2016, March). Progress in primary school children’s understandings of dissolving: A cross-age qualitative survey [Conference talk]. STORIES Conference 2016, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Ellefson, M. R., Ng, F. F., Wang, Q., & Hughes, C. (2015, November 19-22). How general are domain-general thinking skills? [Conference talk]. The 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, United States. http://sk.sagepub.com/video/how-general-are-domain-general-thinking-skills

Schlottmann, A., Ellefson, M. R., & Taber, K. S. (2015, June 8-9). Children’s understanding of intensive properties of matter: Does it have to be so difficult? [Conference talk]. The 17th International Conference on Information Integration Theory and Functional Measurement. Acre, Israel.

Tsapali, M. (2015, May). Children's understandings of materials and mixing: A qualitative survey [Conference talk]. Kaleidoscope 2015, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Schlottmann, A., Hill, J., Ellefson, M., & Taber, K. (2015, March 12-14). Children’s reasoning about dissolving and dilution: Is there an intuitive chemistry? [Conference talk]. The International Convention of Psychological Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Ellefson, M. R., Amodia-Bidakowska, A., & Hughes, C. H. (2014, September 3-5). Parental support for executive function predicts achievement in middle childhood [Conference talk]. British Psychological Society Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Ellefson, M. R., & Sobel, D. M. (2013, November 14-17). The role of domain knowledge in chemistry reasoning [Conference talk]. The 54th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Serpell, Z. N., Foster, A., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2013, October 3-5). Science-based research in schools: Unpacking the insurmountable [Conference talk]. Annual conference of the Center for School Mental Health, Arlington, VA, United States.

Schlottmann, A., Hill, J., Moss, C., Leung, J., Tse, V., Ellefson, M. R., Quinn, C. & Taber. K. (2013, June 12-13). Children’s intuitive chemistry: Judgements of the strength of mixtures of water with sugar or paint [Conference talk]. The 4th International Conference on Information Integration Theory and Functional Measurement, Coimbra, Portugal.

Balmain, S, & Ellefson, M. R. (2013, February 23-24). Structured pattern analysis, A novel technique for teaching electrocardiograms is superior to teaching via methodical electrocardiogram analysis [Conference talk]. Innovations in Medical Education: Transforming Health Professions Education Through Innovation Conference, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

Goedert, K. M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2012, November 15-18). The consideration of alternative causes mediates effects of beliefs on evidence weighting and choice of evidence [Conference talk]. The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN, United States.

Vousden, J. I., & Ellefson, M. R. (2012, June). The development of irregular word reading: The role of word knowledge [Conference talk]. Forum for Research in Language and Literacy (FRiLL) Summer Conference, Easthamstead Park, United Kingdom.

Goedert, K. M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2012, March 1-3). Causal beliefs and the consideration of alternative causes [Conference talk]. The 2012 Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.

Ellefson, M. R., Khamar, H., & Schunn, C. (2011, March 31-April 1). Are students’ causal models of scientific ideas flexible? [Conference talk]. The 74th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Molzhon, A., Ellefson, M. R., Blagrove, E., & Chater, N. (2011, March 31-April 1). Differential influences of age and executive functions on arithmetic efficiency and achievement [Symposium contribution]. In M. Ellefson (Chair), Executive functions and education [Symposium]. The 74th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Ellefson, M. R., Blagrove, E., & Chater, N. (2010, November 18-21). Executive functions and task switching [Conference talk]. The 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO, United States.

Ellefson, M. R. (2010, May 1). Causal reasoning in science learning [Conference talk]. CamERA 2010: Making Connections, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Vousden, J. I., Ellefson, M. R., & Solity, J. (2009, September 9-11). The contribution of children’s decoding and vocabulary knowledge to reading irregular words [Conference talk]. British Psychological Society Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference 2009, Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Ellefson, M. R., Blagrove, E., Molzhon, A., & Chater, N. (2009, April 2-4). Contributions of age and executive functions on task switching performance [Symposium contribution]. In M. Ellefson (Chair), Executive functions and task switching [Symposium]. The 73rd Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO, United States.

Ellefson, M. R. (2007, March 29-April 1). Connecting cognitive science and science education: The case for causality [Symposium contribution]. In M. Ellefson (Chair), Connecting cognitive science and science education [Symposium]. The 72nd Biennial Beeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, United States.

Ellefson, M. R., Treiman, R., & Kessler, B. (2007, March 29-April 1). Learning to label letters by names or sounds [Symposium contribution]. In M. Ellefson (Chair), Phonics in early literacy education [Symposium]. The 72nd Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, United States.

Johnstone, E. L., Ellefson, M. R., & Chater, N. (2005, November 10-13). Children’s reasoning under uncertainty: The influence of conditional and unconditional contingencies [Conference talk]. The 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Ellefson, M. R., Shapiro, L., Solity, J., & Seabrook, R. (2004, March 27-30). What are the factors that cause reading difficulties? [Conference talk]. The 6th International Conference of the British Dyslexia Association, Warwick, United Kingdom.

Shapiro, L., Solity, J., Brown, G., Chater, N., Vousden, J., Ellefson, M. R., & Seabrook, R. (2004, March 27-30). A whole-class based intervention can reduce the incidence of reading difficulty [Conference talk]. The 6th International Conference of the British Dyslexia Association, Warwick, United Kingdom.

Solity, J., Brown, G., Chater, N., Vousden, J., Ellefson, M. R., Shapiro, L., & Seabrook, R. (2004, March 27-30). Recommended teaching strategies based on principles from cognitive science [Conference talk]. The 6th International Conference of the British Dyslexia Association, Warwick, United Kingdom.

Vousden, J., Solity, J., Brown, G., Chater, N., Ellefson, M.R. , Shapiro, L., & Seabrook, R. (2004, March 27-30). Real books vs. reading schemes: Why real books could reduce literacy difficulties [Conference talk]. The 6th International Conference of the British Dyslexia Association, Warwick, United Kingdom.

Ellefson, M. R., Young, M. E., Christiansen, M. H., & Espy, K. A. (2002, May 16-17). The use of structural cues to facilitate pattern acquisition in a sequential learning task [Conference talk]. The 8th Annual Show-Me Mental State Conference on Cognition, St. Louis, MO, United States.

Young, M. E., Ellefson, M. R., & Rogers, E. T. (2002, May 16-17). The effect of symmetric and asymmetric binary features on category learning [Conference talk]. The 8th Annual Show-Me Mental State Conference on Cognition, St. Louis, MO, United States.

Molfese, D. L., & Ellefson, M. R. (1998, July). The use of event-related potentials to study cognitive disorders [Conference talk]. United Leukodystrophy Foundation, Springfield, IL, United States.

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