Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Acevedo-Farag, L. M., Guo, S., Kim, Y., Romero, L., Yu, X., Begolli, K. N., Bustamante, A. S., & Ahn, J. (accepted). Structuring playful learning: How task design influences engagement in a playful math intervention. Educational Designer.

Wan, S., Tian, J., Guo, S., & Lauermann, F. (accepted). Do students become more likely to see themselves as a “math person” or a “language person” across K-12? Evidence from four U.S. longitudinal datasets. Child Development.

Begolli, K. N.*, Guo, S.*, Acevedo-Farag, L. M., Sanchez, G., Yu, X., Kim, Y., Vu, M., Hernandez, L., Ahn, J., Bailey, D., Bustamante, A. S., Rhodes, K., & Richland, L. (2026). Enhancing flexible transfer of fractions: The role of sequential and simultaneous games with multiple representations. Cognitive Science, 50, e70168. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70168 (First authorship shared)

Guo, S., Bailey, D. H., Rhodes, K., Begolli, K. N., Bermudez, V. N., Lawrence, L., Alvarez-Vargas, D., Acevedo-Farag, L. M., Ahn, J., Bustamante, A. S., & Richland, L. E. (2024). Buckets of fun: Impacts of fraction ball activities on students’ math-related emotions. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 92, 101645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101645

Guo, S., Sun, T., Gong, J., Lu, Z., Wang, Q., & Zhang, L. (2022). Remote co-teaching in rural classrooms: Current practice, perceptions, and challenges. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘22), April 29–May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501924

Gong, J., Han, T., Guo, S., Li, J., Zha, S., Zhang, L., … & Rui, Y. (2021). HoloBoard: A large-format immersive teaching board based on pseudo holographics. In The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ‘21), October 10–14, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472749.3474761

Manuscripts Under Revision

Guo, S., & Wolf, S. (Conditional Acceptance). The relation of classroom-level school readiness to classroom quality and teacher well-being in Ghanaian preschools. Early Education and Development.

Guo, S., Hübner, N., Zitzmann, S., Hecht, M., Murayama, K., & Bailey, D. H. (Revise and Resubmit). Random intercepts and slopes in longitudinal models: When are they “good” and “bad” controls? Psychological Methods.

Cristancho, J. C., Guo, S., McCoy, D. C., & Bailey, D. H. (Revise and Resubmit). A meta-analysis of the effects of objective measures of exposure to community violence on child outcomes. Developmental Psychology.

Working Papers

Ebby, C. B., Diaz, K. G., Pecora, L., Suwak, K., Ehrenberg, Z., & Guo, S. (2023). Effects of the first year of a 3-year intervention in learning trajectory-oriented formative assessment on grades PreK-3 student achievement (Working Paper). Scholarly Commons, University of Pennsylvania.