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Siling Guo

PhD Candidate in Education at UC Irvine

I am an emerging developmental and educational psychologist. My research examines how educational experiences and developmental contexts support children’s academic learning and motivation.

I use educational interventions and longitudinal data to study when learning and motivation reinforce one another, and when efforts to raise one might come at the expense of the other. These patterns help me develop and test theories of how cognitive and social-emotional skills interact across development, which I use to inform the design and evaluation of interventions and instructional practices that support students’ learning and development.

My longstanding involvement in interdisciplinary research has shaped my commitment to bridging educational practice and developmental science to promote equity.

🔍 I am on the 2026–2027 job market.

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About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine, specializing in Human Development in Context. I hold an M.S.Ed. in Human Development from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Ed. in Early Childhood Education, with a minor in Psychology, from the University of Macau.

My research lies at the intersection of developmental science, educational intervention, and quantitative methodology. My dissertation examines the mechanisms underlying the long-term impacts of educational interventions through three guiding questions: (1) how longitudinal models can be specified to study skill co-development, (2) whether initial intervention impacts can ripple out to other skills over time, and (3) how intervention effects unfold in real-world educational contexts. My dissertation brings together three integrated studies using longitudinal modeling, simulation, meta-analytic techniques, and a large-scale field experiment conducted in partnership with three local school districts and a math teacher educator team.

Research Interests: Child Development, Educational Interventions, Mathematics Learning and Motivation, Quantitative Methods

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I welcome collaboration with researchers, educators, and partner organizations interested in child development, mathematics learning, and the design and evaluation of educational interventions.
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