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Overview

Sara A. Hart is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research portfolio covers extensive work in psychology and social sciences, with a focus on education and developmental psychology subfields. The scientist's work particularly addresses key areas such as reading and literacy development, early childhood education and development, and cognitive abilities and testing.

Hart has contributed to multiple publications spanning a variety of topics including cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, parental involvement in education, child development and digital technology, as well as research data management practices. These thematic areas reflect an interdisciplinary approach to understanding educational and developmental phenomena.

Their recent papers include:

  • A meta-analysis of the relation between math anxiety and math achievement, 2020, Psychological Bulletin
  • The home math environment and math achievement: A meta-analysis, 2021, Psychological Bulletin
  • Nurture might be nature: cautionary tales and proposed solutions, 2021, npj Science of Learning
  • How the Science of Reading Informs 21st-Century Education, 2020, Reading Research Quarterly
  • Next directions in measurement of the home mathematics environment: An international and interdisciplinary perspective, 2021, Journal of Numerical Cognition

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Developmental Science
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Psychological Bulletin
  • npj Science of Learning
  • Journal of Learning Disabilities

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Christopher Schatschneider
  • Wilhelmina van Dijk
  • Mia Cristina Daucourt
  • Jeffrey Shero
  • Colleen M. Ganley

Hart's main fields of study encompass:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Subfields of study cover:

  • Education
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Information Systems

The main topics of their research involve:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Research Data Management Practices

Best Publications

  • The heritability of general cognitive ability increases linearly from childhood to young adulthood

    Claire M. A. Haworth;M. J. Wright;M. Luciano;N. G. Martin

  • A meta-analysis of the relation between math anxiety and math achievement.

    Connie Barroso;Colleen M. Ganley;Amanda L. McGraw;Elyssa A. Geer

  • Is Math Anxiety Always Bad for Math Learning? The Role of Math Motivation

    Zhe Wang;Sarah L. Lukowski;Sara A. Hart;Ian M. Lyons

  • Who is afraid of math? Two sources of genetic variance for mathematical anxiety.

    Zhe Wang;Sara Ann Hart;Yulia Kovas;Yulia Kovas;Yulia Kovas;Sarah Lukowski

  • The ABCs of Math: A Genetic Analysis of Mathematics and Its Links With Reading Ability and General Cognitive Ability.

    Sara A. Hart;Stephen A. Petrill;Lee A. Thompson;Robert Plomin

  • The home math environment and math achievement: A meta-analysis.

    Mia C Daucourt;Amy R Napoli;Jamie M Quinn;Sarah G Wood

  • SES and CHAOS as environmental mediators of cognitive ability: A longitudinal genetic analysis

    Sara A. Hart;Stephen A. Petrill;Kirby Deater Deckard;Lee A. Thompson

  • Understanding the Home Math Environment and Its Role in Predicting Parent Report of Children's Math Skills.

    Sara Ann Hart;Colleen M Ganley;David J. Purpura

  • Nurture might be nature: cautionary tales and proposed solutions.

    Sara A. Hart;Callie Little;Callie Little;Elsje van Bergen

  • How the Science of Reading Informs 21st-Century Education.

    Yaacov Petscher;Sonia Q. Cabell;Hugh W. Catts;Donald L. Compton

  • Math Fluency Is Etiologically Distinct From Untimed Math Performance, Decoding Fluency, and Untimed Reading Performance Evidence From a Twin Study

    Stephen Petrill;Jessica Logan;Sara Hart;Pamela Vincent

  • Children's history of speech-language difficulties: genetic influences and associations with reading-related measures.

    Laura Segebart DeThorne;Sara A. Hart;Stephen A. Petrill;Kirby Deater-Deckard

  • The Nature of Math Anxiety in Adults: Prevalence and Correlates

    Sara Ann Hart;Colleen Marie Ganley

  • Precision Education Initiative: Moving Towards Personalized Education.

    Sara A. Hart

  • Reading Development in Young Children: Genetic and Environmental Influences

    Jessica A. R. Logan;Sara A. Hart;Laurie Cutting;Kirby Deater-Deckard

  • Twin Family Registries Worldwide : An Important Resource for Scientific Research

    Yoon Mi Hur;Leonie H. Bogl;Juan R. Ordoñana;Jeanette Taylor

  • Next Directions in Measurement of the Home Mathematics Environment: An International and Interdisciplinary Perspective

    Caroline Byrd Hornburg;Giulia A. Borriello;Melody Kung;Joyce Lin

  • A Twin Study of the Genetics of High Cognitive Ability Selected from 11,000 Twin Pairs in Six Studies from Four Countries

    Claire M. A. Haworth;Margaret J. Wright;Nicolas W. Martin;Nicholas G. Martin

  • Expanding the environment: Gene × School-Level SES Interaction on Reading Comprehension

    Sara A. Hart;Brooke Soden;Wendy Johnson;Christopher Schatschneider

  • Negative affect shares genetic and environmental influences with symptoms of childhood internalizing and externalizing disorders.

    Amy J. Mikolajewski;Nicholas P. Allan;Sara A. Hart;Christopher J. Lonigan

  • Exploring How Symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Are Related to Reading and Mathematics Performance: General Genes, General Environments

    Sara A. Hart;Stephen A. Petrill;Erik Willcutt;Lee A. Thompson

  • A Latent Profile Analysis of Math Achievement, Numerosity, and Math Anxiety in Twins.

    Sara A. Hart;Jessica A. R. Logan;Lee Thompson;Yulia Kovas

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Schatschneider
Christopher Schatschneider Florida State University
Stephen A. Petrill
Stephen A. Petrill The Ohio State University
Lee A. Thompson
Lee A. Thompson Case Western Reserve University
Yulia Kovas
Yulia Kovas Goldsmiths University of London
Kirby Deater-Deckard
Kirby Deater-Deckard University of Massachusetts Amherst
Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin King's College London
Erik G. Willcutt
Erik G. Willcutt University of Colorado Boulder
David J. Purpura
David J. Purpura Purdue University West Lafayette
Laurie E. Cutting
Laurie E. Cutting Vanderbilt University
Beth M. Phillips
Beth M. Phillips Florida State University

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