Lectures (in the order of their appearance in the program)
Angeline Lillard, UVA
Evaluating evidence through the PERLS framework: Montessori education
- Cotton, C. (2026). Rigor is not readiness: The PERL framework for evidence-based policy. Science, 393(6810).
- Lillard, A. S., Loeb, D., Berg, J., Escueta, M., Manship, K., Hauser, A., & Daggett, E. D. (2025). A national randomized controlled trial of the impact of public Montessori preschool at the end of kindergarten. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(43), Article e2506130122.
- Lillard, A. S., Loeb, D., Berg, J., Escueta, M., Manship, K., Hauser, A., & Daggett, E. D. (2025). Supporting information for “A national randomized controlled trial of the impact of public Montessori preschool at the end of kindergarten” [Supplementary material]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Moritz Daum, UZH
Improving the relationship between research and practice in education
Claudia Buß, Charité Berlin
Intergenerational transmission of maternal childhood maltreatment and the role of fetal programming
- Moog, N. K., Cummings, P. D., Jackson, K. L., Aschner, J. L., Barrett, E. S., Bastain, T. M., Blackwell, C. K., Bosquet Enlow, M., Breton, C. V., Bush, N. R., Deoni, S. C. L., Duarte, C. S., Ferrara, A., Grant, T. L., Hipwell, A. E., Jones, K., Leve, L. D., Lovinsky-Desir, S., Miller, R. K., Monk, C., … ECHO collaborators (2023). Intergenerational transmission of the effects of maternal exposure to childhood maltreatment in the USA: a retrospective cohort study. The Lancet. Public health, 8(3), e226–e237.
- Moog, N. K., Heim, C. M., Entringer, S., Simhan, H. N., Wadhwa, P. D., & Buss, C. (2022). Transmission of the adverse consequences of childhood maltreatment across generations: Focus on gestational biology. Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, 215, 173372.
Thad Polk
Dedifferentiation of neurocognitive function in aging
Charles Driver
Integrative dynamic systems modelling
- Driver C. C. (2025). Inference with cross-lagged effects-Problems in time. Psychological methods, 30(1), 174–202.
- Dietze, M. C., Fox, A., Beck-Johnson, L. M., Betancourt, J. L., Hooten, M. B., Jarnevich, C. S., Keitt, T. H., Kenney, M. A., Laney, C. M., Larsen, L. G., Loescher, H. W., Lunch, C. K., Pijanowski, B. C., Randerson, J. T., Read, E. K., Tredennick, A. T., Vargas, R., Weathers, K. C., & White, E. P. (2018). Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(7), 1424–1432.
Pamela Davis-Kean
The role of parental educational attainment on parenting and the developing child
Jamie Jirout
Curiosity in children across ages and contexts: Measuring an epistemic emotion
Mareike Grotheer
Wrap it up: Experience-dependent and developmental myelin growth in the human brain
- Zatorre, R. J., Fields, R. D., & Johansen-Berg, H. (2012). Plasticity in gray and white: neuroimaging changes in brain structure during learning. Nature neuroscience, 15(4), 528–536.
- Grill-Spector, K., & Weiner, K. S. (2014). The functional architecture of the ventral temporal cortex and its role in categorization. Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 15(8), 536–548.