College of Education
Elyssa Geer Research Group
Led by Elyssa Geer · Special Education, School Psychology and Early Childhood Studies
What we study
The Geer Lab studies how spatial skills and math achievement in young children are connected, focusing on factors like math anxiety, sex differences, and executive function. They use data collection and analysis to explore these relationships.
What working here is like
- Human participants
- Coding helps
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Skill variability within play groups and response to a preschool block play intervention
2026 · Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
- Bidirectional Relations Between Spatial and Mathematics Skills in Elementary School Children: The Role of Domain-Specific Anxieties
2026 · Journal of Intelligence
Explores how spatial and math skills influence each other in elementary school kids.
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- How Do Spatial Skills Take Shape? Examining Preschoolers’ Performance on 2D and 3D Assembly Tasks
2026 · Journal of Cognition and Development
Checks if 2D and 3D spatial skills should be measured separately in preschoolers.
- Relations Between Parents’ Math Anxiety and Children's Math Learning: The Role of Homework Help
2026 · Developmental Science
Finds parents' math anxiety lowers kids' math gains when they help with homework often.
- The Extent to Which Different Executive Function Skills Mediate the Spatial-Math Link
2026 · Behavioral Sciences
Tests whether executive function skills connect spatial and math abilities in children.
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