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Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

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Psychology

D-Index
40
Citations
7715
World Ranking
8180
National Ranking
4381

Overview

Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and psychology, with a focus on education, developmental and educational psychology, sociology and political science, statistics and probability, and health. The scientist's work addresses several main topics including early childhood education and development, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, parental involvement in education, health disparities and outcomes, mathematics education and teaching techniques, reading and literacy development, and urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies.

Recent publications by Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal include:

  • "Black-White achievement gaps differ by family socioeconomic status from early childhood through early adolescence," 2020, Journal of Educational Psychology
  • "Associations among socioeconomic status and preschool-aged children's, number skills, and spatial skills: The role of executive function," 2022, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • "Measuring preschool quality in low- and middle-income countries: Validity of the ECERS-R in Colombia," 2020, Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • "Triangulating Multi-Method Assessments of Parental Support for Early Math Skills," 2020, Frontiers in Education
  • "Family and community resource and stress processes related to income disparities in school-aged children's development," 2020, Journal of Educational Psychology

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal include Portia Miller, Heather J. Bachman, Melissa E. Libertus, Laura Betancur, and Shirley Duong. These collaborations contribute to a diverse range of studies primarily within education and developmental psychology.

The scientist has published regularly in specific venues such as Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Development and Psychopathology, and Frontiers in Psychology. These journals have hosted multiple publications reflecting their ongoing research interests.

Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal's scholarly output is structured around investigating socioeconomic factors in childhood education, especially as they relate to cognitive skill development and disparities in academic achievement. The integration of health, community, and family resource factors also features prominently in their work.

Best Publications

  • Parent Involvement and Children’s Academic and Social Development in Elementary School

    Nermeen E. El Nokali;Heather J. Bachman;Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

  • Child Care and Low‐Income Children's Development: Direct and Moderated Effects

    Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal;Rebekah Levine Coley;P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

  • Moving Beyond Correlations in Assessing the Consequences of Poverty.

    Greg J Duncan;Katherine Magnuson;Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

  • Children's early approaches to learning and academic trajectories through fifth grade.

    Christine P. Li-Grining;Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal;Carolina Maldonado-Carreño;Kelly Haas

  • Mothers' Transitions from Welfare to Work and the Well-Being of Preschoolers and Adolescents

    P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale;Robert A. Moffitt;Brenda J. Lohman;Andrew J. Cherlin

  • Boosting Family Income to Promote Child Development.

    Greg J. Duncan;Katherine Magnuson;Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

  • Teacher-child relationships and the development of academic and behavioral skills during elementary school: a within- and between-child analysis.

    Carolina Maldonado-Carreño;Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

  • Income Changes and Cognitive Stimulation in Young Children's Home Learning Environments

    Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

  • Economic disparities in middle childhood development: does income matter?

    Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

  • Fathers’ and mothers’ parenting predicting and responding to adolescent sexual risk behaviors.

    Rebekah Levine Coley;Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal;Holly S. Schindler

  • Child Care and the Development of Behavior Problems Among Economically Disadvantaged Children in Middle Childhood

    Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal;Rebekah Levine Coley;Carolina Maldonado-Carreño;Christine P. Li-Grining

  • A Developmental Perspective on Full- Versus Part-Day Kindergarten and Children’s Academic Trajectories Through Fifth Grade

    Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal;Christine P. Li-Grining;Carolina Maldonado-Carreño

  • Selection into early education and care settings: Differences by developmental period

    Rebekah Levine Coley;Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal;Melissa A. Collins;Portia Miller

  • Trajectories of parenting processes and adolescent substance use: reciprocal effects.

    Rebekah Levine Coley;Rebekah Levine Coley;Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal;Holly S. Schindler

  • Early academic skills and childhood experiences across the urban–rural continuum

    Portia Miller;Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

  • Amygdala reactivity and negative emotionality: divergent correlates of antisocial personality and psychopathy traits in a community sample

    Luke W. Hyde;Amy L. Byrd;Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal;Ahmad R. Hariri

  • Parental Education Predicts Corticostriatal Functionality in Adulthood

    Peter J. Gianaros;Stephen B. Manuck;Lei K. Sheu;Dora C. H. Kuan

  • Children and Socioeconomic Status

    Greg J. Duncan;Katherine Magnuson;Elizabeth Votruba‐Drzal

  • Parent- and teacher-child relationships and engagement at school entry: Mediating, interactive, and transactional associations across contexts.

    Melissa Castle Heatly;Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

  • Community Socioeconomic Status is Associated With Circulating Interleukin-6 and C-Reactive Protein

    Karen L. Petersen;Anna L. Marsland;Janine Flory;Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebekah Levine Coley
Rebekah Levine Coley Boston College
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Northwestern University
Katherine Magnuson
Katherine Magnuson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Christian D. Schunn
Christian D. Schunn University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer S. Silk
Jennifer S. Silk University of Pittsburgh
Stephen B. Manuck
Stephen B. Manuck University of Pittsburgh
Melissa E. Libertus
Melissa E. Libertus University of Pittsburgh
Ahmad R. Hariri
Ahmad R. Hariri Duke University
Peter J. Gianaros
Peter J. Gianaros University of Pittsburgh
Anna L. Marsland
Anna L. Marsland University of Pittsburgh

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