Lab Happenings

Come visit us at SRCD 2023

Flash Talk Symposium: Measuring Attention and Engagement in Real-world Settings

Fri, March 24, 10:30 to 11:15am, Salt Palace Convention Center, Floor: 2, Meeting Room 251 E

Examining Visual Displays as a Potential Pathway for Incidental Learning: An Eye Tracking Study

Learn more about our work at COGSCI 2022!

Poster session 1 JULY 28TH, 2022 - 10:20 – 12:00: P1-25-2261: Inhibition and Fraction Arithmetic: Insights from Heat-map Strategy Reports

Flash Talk: FT42.3: Low Spatial Proximity Between Text and Illustrations Improves Children’s Comprehension and Attention: An Eye Tracking Study

Come visit us at CDD 2022 and learn more about our work!

POSTER SESSION 3: S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L 2 3 , 2 0 2 2 13:15 – 14:30

3-B-1 Learning during a pandemic: Teachers’ and parents’ perspectives

3-B-4 Decreasing spatial proximity between text and illustrations improves children's learning and attention: An eye tracking study

Come visit us at SREE 2021!

Poster Session: Tuesday, September 28, 2021: 1:15pm – 2:15pm

The impact of screen settings on children’s learning in a remote classroom

Learn more about our ongoing work at Cogsci 2021!

IP13: Reading

1048: The optimal amount of visuals promotes children’s comprehension and attention: An eye tracking study

Poster Session 2:

2-D-134: The decorated learning environment: Simply noise or an opportunity for incidental learning?

Come learn about our research at SRCD 2021!

Poster Session 03: Wed, April 7, 12:55 to 1:55pm EDT (12:55 to 1:55pm EDT): Book Design and Attentional Competition while Reading: Parental Perspectives vs. Children’s Eye Tracking Performance

Paper Symposium: Fri, April 9, 11:35am to 1:05pm EDT (11:35am to 1:05pm EDT): When Technology is Here to Stay: Maximizing the Potential of E-Books for Learning in Young Childhood

Come learn about our research at Cogsci2020!

P-1-148 The attentional demands of learning by doing: A developmental study

P-2-338 Attentional competition in genuine classrooms: Analysis of the classroom visual environment

P-3-549 Investigation of attentional decay: Implications for instruction

Come learn about our ongoing work at CDS 2019!

POSTER SESSION 2: O C T O B E R 1 8 , 2 0 1 9 , 5:45PM – 7:00PM

2-A-12 Attentional decay: Implications for education

POSTER SESSION 3: O C T O B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 , 1:15PM – 2:30PM

3-A-8 The classroom visual environment: Source of distraction or opportunity for incidental learning?

POSTER SESSION 4: O C T O B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 9 , 5:45PM – 7:00PM

4-A-6 Investigating the developmental trajectory of learning by doing: Is doing beneficial when attention is still developing?

Dr. Karrie Godwin to give invited talk at University of Minnesota

The Child Development Lab’s PI, Dr. Karrie Godwin, will give an invited talk at the University of Minnesota August 22-23. Godwin will discuss how game-based assessment and novel technologies may improve our measurement and understanding of attention.

Come see us at Cogsci 2019!

Friday 13:00 - 14:30 "Give Me A Break": Can Brief Bouts of Physical Activity Reduce Elementary Children's Attentional failures and Improve Learning?

Saturday 13:00 - 14:30 Book Design, Attention, and Reading Performance: Current Practices and Opportunities for Optimization

Saturday 13:00 - 14:30 1.9 Million Hits and Counting: An Investigation of the Cognitive Alignment of Hundred Boards for Subtraction Thinking

Aimee Wildrick, SURE fellowship recipient, presents Child Development Lab research investigating how classroom decorations influence attention and learning. The project is ongoing.

Come check out the latest research from the Child Development Lab at SRCD 2019!

1-005 - Poster Session 01 : Thu, March 21, 9:30 to 10:45am, Baltimore Convention Center, Floor: Level 1, Exhibit Hall B

Poster #86 - Design Optimization: Exploration of Book Design and its Effect on Children’s Attention, Decoding, and Comprehension

3-003 - Poster Session 09 : Sat, March 23, 8:00 to 9:15am, Baltimore Convention Center, Floor: Level 1, Exhibit Hall B

Poster #4 - “I Need a Break!”: The Effect of Short Movement Breaks on Children’s Attention and Learning

3-053 - Poster Session 10: Sat, March 23, 9:45 to 11:00am, Baltimore Convention Center, Floor: Level 1, Exhibit Hall B

Poster #4 - Effects of Book Design on 1st and 2nd Grade Children’s Attention and Learning

3-246 – Paper Symposium: Sat, March 23, 4:15 to 5:45pm, Hilton Baltimore, Floor: Level 1, Peale A

Learning in a Noisy World: Regulating Children’s Attention at Home and at School

Undergraduate Research Assistant Aimee Wildrick was accepted into Kent State’s competitive Summer Undergraduate Research Experience. Her presentation on her research experience with the Child Development Lab will be October 2 from 1-2 p.m. in the Student Center.

Doctoral student Grace Murray presents preliminary data on the use of movement breaks to improve attention at Kent State University’s annual Graduate Student Symposium. (April 2017)

Kent State’s Child Development Lab volunteers for Kelly’s Grief Center, a local non-profit that provides counseling services for individuals who have lost a loved one.

(From left to right: Grace Murray, Karrie Godwin, Rachael Todaro, Emily Bliss, Aimee Wildrick, Tim Hafer)

The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) named Dr. Karrie Godwin an Early Career Scholar Grant Recipient for her research on optimizing the classroom visual environment. To learn more about her research, click here.

Recognizing Our Outstanding Fellows

Dr. Karrie Godwin is recognized as a finalist for the IES Outstanding Fellow Award for her contributions to education research.