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Rostkowski, E., Rushton, N., Smith, H., Shaw, S. T. (2025). Teaching statistics in the age of AI: Leveraging learning sciences principles with AI tool use to support GAISE. Scatterplot: The MAA Journal of Data Science. 2(1), 2572149. https://doi.org/10.1080/29932955.2025.2572149
Shaw, S. T., McReynolds, A., Neer, E., Fang, T., & Givvin, K., (2025). An exploratory investigation of undergraduate students’ values and experiences with breaks, leisure, and rest. Journal of College Student Development. 66(5), 583-599. https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2025.a970180
Bye, J.K., Chan, J.Y., Closser, A.H., Lee, J., Shaw, S. T., Ottmar, E. (2024). Perceiving precedence: Order of operations errors are predicted by perception of equivalent expressions. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 10, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.14103
Nardi, D., Dickin, D.C., Detrich, A.N., Aultman, A.L., Burns, E., Pellegrino, A., Price, K.M., Savage, C.J., Welch, J.N., Yantz, R.J., Huber, R.N., & Shaw, S.T. (2024). Individual Differences in Proprioceptive Reorientation: A Study on Body Characteristics and Posturography, 25(3), 228–255. Spatial Cognition & Computation. https://doi.org/10.1080/13875868.2024.2403355
Shaw, S. T., Yeghyayan, A., Ballenger, E., & Ramirez, G. (2024). Generating mathematical strategies shows evidence of a serial order effect. Frontiers in Education. 9:1347444. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1347444
Rahal, D., Shaw, S. T., Tucker, M. C., & Stigler, J. W. (2024). Status in a psychological statistics class: The role of academic and status-based identities in college students’ subjective social status. Social Psychology of Education, 27(4), 1921-1946. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-024-09885-4
Rahal, D., & Shaw, S. T. (2023). Impacts of the COVID-19 transition to remote instruction for university students. Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 60(1), 108-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/19496591.2022.2111519
Tucker, M., Shaw, S. T., Son, J., & Stigler, J. W. (2023). Teaching statistics and data analysis with R. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 31(1), 18-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/26939169.2022.2089410
Rahal, D., Shaw, S. T., & Stigler, J. (2023). Lower socioeconomic status is related to higher negative emotional well-being prior to academic exams. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping. 36(4), 502-518. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2110588
Iannacchione, A., Ottmar, E., Ngo, V., Mason, C., Smith, H., Drzewiecki, K., & Shaw, S. T. (2023). Examining relations between math anxiety, prior knowledge, hint usage, and math performance in two different online learning contexts. Instructional Science. 51(2), 285-307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-022-09604-6
Shaw, S. T., Luna, M. A., Rodriguez, B., Vilalta, N., & Ramirez, G. (2022). Mathematical creativity in elementary school children: General patterns and effects of an incubation break. Frontiers in Education, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.835911
Stigler, J. W., Son, J. Y., Givvin, K. B., Blake, A., Fries, L., Shaw, S. T., & Tucker, M. (2020). The Better Book model for education research and development. Teacher College Record. 122 (9). 1-32. Preprint available at bit.ly/375hjHy
Shaw, S. T., Pogossian, A., & Ramirez, G. (2020). The mathematical flexibility of college students: The role of affective and cognitive factors. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 90(4) 981-996. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12340
Shaw, S. T., Spink, K., & Chin-Newman, C. (2019). “Do I really belong here?”: The stigma of being a college transfer student at a four-year university. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 43(9), 657660. https://doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2018.1528907
Ramirez, G., Shaw, S. T., & Maloney, E. A. (2018). Math anxiety: Past research, promising interventions, and a new interpretation framework. Educational Psychologist, 5(3), 145-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2018.1447384
Shaw, S. T. & Chin-Newman, C. S. (2017). "You can do it!" Social support during the transition from community college to a four-year university. Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 29(2), 65-78. Retrieved from https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/fyesit/fyesit/2017/00000029/00000002/art00004
Chin-Newman, C. S., & Shaw, S. T. (2013). The anxiety of change: How transfer students face challenges. Journal of College Admission, (221), 15–21. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262377028_The_anxiety_of_change_How_transfer_students_face_challenges.
Mederer, A., Nguyen, C., Shaw, S. T., & Pollard, B. (2025, August 6-7). How students represent physics knowledge through recall. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2025, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2025.pr.Mederer
Matlen, B., Bartel, A., Davenport, J., Rohrer, D., Heffernan, C., Shaw, S. T., & Heffernan, N. (2025, July). Scaling learning interventions: A case study in interleaved math practice. In Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale (pp. 35-39). https://doi.org/10.1145/3698205.3729554
Gurung, A., Baral, S., Vanacore, K. P., McReynolds, A., Kreisberg, H., Botelho, A. F., Shaw, S. T., & Heffernan, N. T. (2023, March). Identification, exploration, and remediation: can teachers predict common wrong Answers?. In LAK23: 13th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (pp. 399-410). https://doi.org/10.1145/3576050.3576109
Haim, A., Shaw, S. T., & Heffernan, N. (2023, March). How to open science: A principle and reproducibility review of the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference. In LAK23: 13th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (pp. 156-164). https://doi.org/10.1145/3576050.3576071
Vanacore, K., Gurung, A., McReynolds, A., Liu, A., Shaw, S. T., & Heffernan, N. (2023, March). Impact of non-cognitive interventions on student learning behaviors and outcomes: An analysis of seven large-scale experimental inventions. In LAK23: 13th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (pp. 165-174). https://doi.org/10.1145/3576050.3576073
Haim, A., Gyurcsan, R., Baxter, C., Shaw, S. T., & Heffernan, N. T., III. (2023, July). How to open science: Debugging reproducibility within the Educational Data Mining Conference. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM ‘23), 114–124, July 11-14, 2023, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengalaru, India. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8115651
Haim, A., Gyurcsan, R., Baxter, C., Shaw, S. T., & Heffernan, N. T., III. (2023, July). How to open science: Analyzing the open science statement compliance of the Learning @ Scale Conference. In Proceedings of the Tenth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 174–182. https://doi.org/10.1145/3573051.3596166
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Prihar, E., Manaal, S., Ostrow, K., Shaw, S. T., Sales, A., & Heffernan, N. (2022). Exploring common trends in online educational experiments. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Educational Data Mining. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6853041