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Overview

Julie Sarama is affiliated with the University of Denver in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of education, mathematics, and developmental psychology, with a significant emphasis on cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills.

The main fields of study in which they have contributed include Social Sciences and Mathematics. Their subfields of study demonstrate a strong focus on Education and Statistics and Probability, alongside Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and even some work connected to Automotive Engineering.

Their chief research topics cover areas such as:

  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
  • School Choice and Performance
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Education Methods and Practices
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments

Julie Sarama has contributed to several publication venues frequently, including:

  • Education Sciences
  • Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
  • ZDM
  • Mathematical Thinking and Learning
  • The Journal of Experimental Education

Their recent publications span from 2020 to 2023 and include the following works:

  • Length measurement in the early years: teaching and learning with learning trajectories, 2021, Mathematical Thinking and Learning
  • STEM for Inclusive Excellence and Equity, 2020, Early Education and Development
  • Effects on Mathematics and Executive Function of a Mathematics and Play Intervention Versus Mathematics Alone, 2020, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
  • Research and Pedagogies for Early Math, 2023, Education Sciences
  • Efficacy of a learning trajectory approach compared to a teach-to-target approach for addition and subtraction, 2020, ZDM

Julie Sarama often collaborates with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Douglas H. Clements
  • Arthur J. Baroody
  • Shannon Stark Guss
  • Yixiao Dong
  • Denis Dumas

Best Publications

  • Learning and Teaching Early Math: The Learning Trajectories Approach

    Douglas H. Clements;Julie Sarama

  • Early Childhood Mathematics Education Research: Learning Trajectories for Young Children

    Julie Sarama;Douglas H. Clements

  • Effects of a Preschool Mathematics Curriculum: Summative Research on the Building Blocks Project

    Douglas H. Clements;Julie Sarama

  • Learning Trajectories in Mathematics Education

    Douglas H. Clements;Julie Sarama

  • Early Childhood Mathematics Learning

    Julie Sarama;Douglas H. Clements

  • Experimental Evaluation of the Effects of a Research-Based Preschool Mathematics Curriculum:

    Douglas H. Clements;Julie Sarama

  • Young Children's Concepts of Shape.

    Douglas H. Clements;Sudha Swaminathan;Mary Anne Zeitler Hannibal;Julie Sarama

  • Engaging young children in mathematics : standards for early childhood mathematics education

    Douglas H. Clements;Julie Sarama;Edito DiBiase;Ann-Marie DiBiase

  • Early Childhood Mathematics Intervention

    Douglas H. Clements;Julie Sarama

  • Mathematics Learned by Young Children in an Intervention Based on Learning Trajectories: A Large-Scale Cluster Randomized Trial

    Douglas H. Clements;Julie Sarama;Mary Elaine Spitler;Alissa A. Lange

  • Building Blocks for early childhood mathematics

    Julie Sarama;Douglas H. Clements

  • Which Preschool Mathematics Competencies Are Most Predictive of Fifth Grade Achievement

    Tutrang Nguyen;Tyler W. Watts;Greg J. Duncan;Douglas H. Clements

  • Early childhood teacher education: the case of geometry

    Douglas H. Clements;Julie Sarama

  • Strip Mining for Gold: Research and Policy in Educational Technology—A Response to “Fool’s Gold”

    Douglas H. Clements;Julie Sarama

  • Learning executive function and early mathematics: Directions of causal relations

    Douglas H. Clements;Julie Sarama;Carrie Germeroth

  • “Concrete” Computer Manipulatives in Mathematics Education

    Julie Sarama;Douglas H. Clements

  • Development of a measure of early mathematics achievement using the Rasch model: the Research‐Based Early Maths Assessment

    Douglas H. Clements;Julie H. Sarama;Xiufeng H. Liu

  • Longitudinal Evaluation of a Scale-Up Model for Teaching Mathematics With Trajectories and Technologies Persistence of Effects in the Third Year

    Douglas H. Clements;Julie Sarama;Christopher B. Wolfe;Mary Elaine Spitler

  • Logo and geometry

    Douglas H. Clements;Michael T. Battista;Julie Sarama

  • Young Children's Composition of Geometric Figures: A Learning Trajectory

    Douglas H. Clements;David C. Wilson;Julie Sarama

  • Building Blocks of Early Childhood Mathematics

    Julie Sarama;Douglas H. Clements

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas H. Clements
Douglas H. Clements University of Denver
Greg J. Duncan
Greg J. Duncan University of California, Irvine
Drew H. Bailey
Drew H. Bailey University of California, Irvine
Arthur J. Baroody
Arthur J. Baroody University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jason L. Anthony
Jason L. Anthony University of South Florida
Mark W. Lipsey
Mark W. Lipsey Vanderbilt University
Katherine Magnuson
Katherine Magnuson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dale C. Farran
Dale C. Farran Vanderbilt University
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Hirokazu Yoshikawa New York University
Elizabeth T. Gershoff
Elizabeth T. Gershoff The University of Texas at Austin

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