Education

Many of our projects take an educational focus. This includes understanding individual differences in learning, academic achievement, and educationally relevant traits in students of all ages.

Check out some of our previous work in this area:

Cognition, emotion, and arithmetic in primary school: A cross-cultural investigation

Maja Rodic ∙ Jiaxin Cui ∙ Sergey Malykh ∙ Xinlin Zhou ∙ Elena I. Gynku ∙ Elena L. Bogdanova ∙ Dina Y. Zueva ∙ Olga Y. Bogdanova ∙ Yulia Kovas

Cross-cultural investigation into cognitive underpinnings of individual differences in early arithmetic

Maja Rodic, Xinlin Zhou, Tatiana Tikhomirova, Wei Wei, Sergei Malykh, Victoria Ismatulina, Elena Sabirova, Yulia Davidova, Maria Grazia Tosto, Jean-Pascal Lemelin, Yulia Kovas

Literacy and Numeracy Are More Heritable Than Intelligence in Primary School

Yulia Kovas, Ivan Voronin, Andrey Kaydalov, Sergey B. Malykh, Philip S. Dale, and Robert Plomin

Anxiety and performance in high-achieving adolescents: associations among 8 general and specific anxiety measures and 13 school grades

Maxim Likhanov, Evgeniia Alenina, Tomasz Bloniewski, Xinlin Zhou, and Yulia Kovas

Why children differ in motivation to learn: Insights from over 13,000 twins from 6 countries

Yulia Kovas, Gabrielle Garon-Carrier, Michel Boivin, Stephen A. Petrill, Robert Plomin, Sergey B. Malykh, Frank Spinath, Kou Murayama, Juko Ando, Olga Y. Bogdanova, Mara Brendgen, Ginette Dionne, Nadine Forget-Dubois, Eduard V. Galajinsky, Juliana Gottschling, Frédéric Guay, Jean-Pascal Lemelin, Jessica A.R. Logan, Shinji Yamagata, Chizuru Shikishima, Birgit Spinath, Lee A. Thompson, Tatiana N. Tikhomirova, Maria G. Tosto, Richard Tremblay, Frank Vitaro

Behavioural Genetics for Education

Eds: Yulia Kovas, Sergey Malykh, Darya Gaysina