Margaret Shavlik
Research Scholar
Research Area: Developmental Science
Early literacy, achievement gaps, parent-child interaction
I am interested in how early factors such as literacy and socioeconomic status impact children’s cognitive abilities across development.
Currently, I am working on identifying and evaluating potential strategies to scaffold children’s literacy and language skills.
Representative Publications
Shavlik, M. (2023). Making early literacy interventions work for everyone: Exploring a potential barrier to effectively teaching dialogic reading strategies [Doctoral dissertation, 青青草视频]. 青青草视频 Institutional Repository.
Bae, J., Shavlik, M., Shatrowsky, C. E., Haden, C. A., & Booth, A. E. (2023). Predicting grade school scientific literacy from aspects of the early home science environment. Frontiers in Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1113196
Shavlik, M., Ko虉ksal, O虉., French, B. F., Haden, C. A., Legare, C. H., Booth, A. E. (2022). Contributions of causal reasoning to early scientific literacy. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 224, 105509.
Booth, A. E., Shavlik, M., & Haden, C. A. (2022). Exploring the Foundations of Early Scientific Literacy: Children’s Causal Stance. Developmental Psychology, 58(12), 2302–2309.
Booth, A. E., Shavlik, M., & Haden, C. A. (2020). Parents’ causal talk: Links to children’s causal stance and emerging scientific literacy. Developmental Psychology, 56(11), 2055-2064.
Shavlik, M., Davis-Kean, P. E., Schwab, J. F., & Booth, A. E. (2020). Early word-learning skills: A missing link in understanding the vocabulary gap? Developmental Science, 24(2).
Shavlik, M., Bauer, J.-R., & Booth, A. E. (2020). Children’s preference for causal information in storybooks. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 11(666). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00666