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  1. Is replication possible without fidelity?

    Article • Psychological Methods, January 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michelle R Ellefson

  2. The Zoo Task: A novel metacognitive problem-solving task developed with a sample of African American children from schools in high poverty communities.

    Article • Psychological Assessment, August 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michelle R Ellefson

  3. Lessons for Successful Cognitive Developmental Science in Educational Settings: The Case of Executive Functions

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Development, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Michelle R Ellefson

  4. Efficiency of Executive Function: A Two-Generation Cross-Cultural Comparison of Samples From Hong Kong and the United Kingdom

    Article • Psychological Science, April 2017, SAGE Publications

    Michelle R Ellefson

  5. Starting from the End: What to do when Restricted Data is released

    Article • Data Science Journal, March 2017, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Michelle R Ellefson

  6. Starting from the end: what to do when restricted data is released

    Article • November 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Michelle R Ellefson

  7. Differences in the weighting and choice of evidence for plausible versus implausible causes.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michelle R Ellefson

  8. Inquiry-based training improves teaching effectiveness of biology teaching assistants

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2013, PLOS

    Michelle R Ellefson

  9. Learning Together While Designing: Does Group Size Make a Difference?

    Article • Journal of Science Education and Technology, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Christian D Schunn, Michelle R Ellefson

  10. Simplifying Reading: Applying the Simplicity Principle to Reading

    Article • Cognitive Science, September 2010, Wiley

    Professor Nick Chater, Michelle R Ellefson

  11. Executive functions and task switching

    Article • January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Nick Chater, Michelle R Ellefson

  12. Learning to label letters by sounds or names: A comparison of England and the United States

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, March 2009, Elsevier

    Michelle R Ellefson

  13. Bringing Engineering Design into High School Science Classrooms: The Heating/Cooling Unit

    Article • Journal of Science Education and Technology, July 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Christian D Schunn, Michelle R Ellefson

  14. Design‐based learning for biology

    Article • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, July 2008, Wiley

    Dr Christian D Schunn, Michelle R Ellefson

  15. Shape School's Asymmetrical Switch Costs

    Article • January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Nick Chater, Michelle R Ellefson

  16. A theory of variability discrimination: Finding differences

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, October 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michelle R Ellefson

  17. Can Domain Knowledge Improve Causal Reasoning?

    Article • January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Christian D Schunn, Michelle R Ellefson

  18. Asymmetrical switch costs in children

    Article • Cognitive Development, April 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Nick Chater, Michelle R Ellefson

  19. Are developmental changes in asymmetrical switch costs domain dependent?

    Article • January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Nick Chater, Michelle R Ellefson

  20. Toward a theory of variability discrimination: finding differences

    Article • Behavioural Processes, April 2003, Elsevier

    Michelle R Ellefson

  21. The joint contributions of shape and color to variability discrimination

    Article • Learning and Motivation, February 2003, Elsevier

    Michelle R Ellefson

  22. Raising the bar for connectionist modeling of cognitive developmental disorders

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Michelle R Ellefson

  23. The Role of Sequential Learning in Language Evolution: Computational and Experimental Studies

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michelle R Ellefson

  24. Language Development during Infancy and Early Childhood

    Article • January 2001, John Benjamins

    Michelle R Ellefson

  25. The Role of Domain Knowledge in Chemistry Reasoning

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michelle R Ellefson

  26. Do Children's Switch Costs Scale Up to More Difficult Tasks?

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michelle R Ellefson

  27. Mechanism information influences the cell-weight inequality in causal judgment from contingencies

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michelle R Ellefson

  28. Learning about the importance of occurrence and non-occurrence

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michelle R Ellefson

  29. Predictive learning of main effects and interactions: A comparison of computational models

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michelle R Ellefson

  30. Consideration of Alternative Causes Moderates Effects of Belief on Evidence Weighting and Choice of Evidence

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michelle R Ellefson

  31. Do Domain-General Skills Apply to Chemistry Reasoning?

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michelle R Ellefson

  32. Event-Related Potentials to Semantic Anomalies in Twelve-Year-Old Children

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Michelle R Ellefson