Articles

  • Godwin, K.E., Kaur, F., & Sonnenschein, S. (2023). Teaching and learning during aglobal pandemic: Perspectives from elementary school teachers and parents. Education Sciences, 13(4), 426. Article.
  • Sawyer, B, Shera, S., Cai, Y., Sonnenschein, S., Kong, P., Gerston, C., Zhange, X., & Yu, X. (in press). School readiness beliefs: Comparing priorities of early childhood teachers and Immigrant Latine and Chinese Parents. Early Childhood Education Journal. Article.
  • Meoded Karabanov, G, Aram, D., Lopez-Escribano, C., Shtereva, K., Asaf, M., Ziv, M., Stites, M., & Sonnenschein, S. (2023). The COVID-19 pandemic: Changes in parent-child activities at home from April 2020 to April 2021 from a cross-cultural view. Education Sciences, 13, 1013. Article.
  • Sonnenschein,S., Stites, M.L., Gursoy,H., & Khorsandian, J. (2023). Elementary-school students’ use of digital devices at home to support learning pre- and post-COVID-19. Education Sciences, 13, 117. Article 
  • Stites, M.L., Gursoy, H., Cosgun, A.A., & Sonnenschein, S. (2022). Preschool classroom libraries in Turkey: Are they used to support early mathematics skills? Education Sciences, 12 (6), Article.
  • Sonnenschein, S., Gursoy, H., & Stites, M. (2022). Elementary school children’s home learning environments: Mathematics, reading, science, written language. Education Sciences, 11, 303-318. Article
  • Grossman, E.R., Benjamin-Neelon, S.E., & Sonnenschein, S. (2022). Alcohol consumption and alcohol home delivery laws during the COVID-19 pandemic. Substance Abuse, 43(1), 1139-1144. Article
  • Sonnenschein, S., Stites, M.L., Galcyzk, S.H., & Grossman, J.A. (2022). “This will likely affect his entire life”: Parents’ views of special education services during COVID-19. International Journal of Educational Research,112, 101941
  • Stites, M.L., Sonnenschein, S., Chen, Y., Imai-Matsumura, K., & Gürsoy, H. (2021). Facilitating preschool children’s mathematics development in China, Japan, and the United States: Is the classroom library considered? Education Sciences, 11, 792. Article
  • Sonnenschein, S., Grossman, E.R., & Grossman, J.A. (2021) U.S. parents’ reports of assisting their children with distance learning during COVID-19. Education Sciences: The Role of Technology in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment during and Post-COVID-19: Opportunities for Innovation and Challenges, 11(9), 501-515. Article
  • Stites, M.L., Sonnenschein, S., & Galczyk, S.H. (2021). Preschool parents’ views of distance learning during COVID-19. Early Education and Development, 32(7), 923-939. Article
  • Sonnenschein, S., & Stites, M.L. (2021). Introduction to the special issue. The effects of COVID-19 on young children’s and their parents’ activities at home. Early Education and Development, 32(6), 789-793. Article
  • Sonnenschein, S., Stites, M.L., & Ross, M. (2021). Home learning environments for young children in the U.S. during COVID-19. Early and Education Development, 32(6), 794-811. Article
  • Simons, C., Sonnenschein, S., Sawyer, B., Kong, P., & Brock, A. (2021). School readiness beliefs of Dominican and Salvadoran immigrant parents. Early Education and Development, 33(2), 269-290. Article
  • Sawyer, B., Dever, B., Kong, P., Sonnenschein, S., Simons, C.,Yu, X., Zhang, X., Cai, Y. (2021). Dominican, Salvadoran, and Chinese immigrant parents’ reasoning about school readiness skills. Child & Youth Care  Forum,51, 137-159.Article
  • Hornburg, C. B., Borriello, G.A., Kung, M., Lin, J., Litkowski, E., Cosso, J., Ellis, A., King, Y., Zippert, E., Cabrera, N., Davis-Kean, P., Eason, S. H., Hart, S. A., Iruka, I., LeFevre, J.-A., Simms, V., Susperreguy, M. I., Cahoon, A., Chan, W. W. L., Cheung, S. K., Coppola, M., De Smedt, B., Elliot, L., Estévez-Pérez, N., Gallagher-Mitchell, T., Gardner-Neblett, N., Gilmore, C., Leyva, D., Maloney, E. A., Manolitsis, G., Melzi, G., Mutaf-Yıldız, B., Nelson, G., Niklas, F., Pan, Y., Ramani, G. B., Skwarchuk, S.-L., Sonnenschein, S., & Purpura, D. J. (2021). Next directions in measurement of the home mathematics environment: An international and interdisciplinary perspective. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 7 (2), 195-220. Article
  • Galindo, C., Sonnenschein, S., & Sanders, M. (2021). A case study of a school- university partnership focused on literacy and educational equity: Responding to COVID 19 in the early grades. School-University Partnerships, 14(3), 17-42. Article
  • Diamant-Cohen, B., Sonnenschein, S., Dowling, R., Shanty, L, Hoge, P., Henschel, B., & Hussey-Gardner, B. (2021). Make way for Goslings: The importance of collaboration. Children’s Voice, Special Issue on University -Community Partnerships, 29(2), 24-26. Article
  • Grossman, E.R., Benjamin-Neelon, S.E., & Sonnenschein, S. (2020). Alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey of U.S. adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), 17, 9189, 1-10; doi:10.3390/ijerph17249189 Article
  • Gay, B., Sonnenschein, S., Baker, L., & Sun, S. (in press). Poverty, parent involvement, and children’s reading skills: Testing the compensatory effect of the amount of classroom reading instruction. Early Education and Development. Article
  • Diamont-Cohen, B., Sonnenschein, S., Dowling, R., Shanty, L, Hoge, P., Henschel, B., & Hussey-Gardner, B. (in press). Make Way for Goslings: The Importance of Collaboration. Children’s Voice, Special Issue on University -Community Partnerships. Article
  • Sonnenschein, S., Stites, M., & Dowling, R. (2021). Learning at home: What preschool parents do and what they want to learn from their children’s teachers. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 19(3), 309-322. Article
  • Dowling, R., Shanty, L., Sonnenschein, S., & Hussey-Gardner, B. (2020). Talking, reading, singing, and rhyming: Tips for fostering early literacy at home. NAEYC YC, 75(3), 79-83. Article
  • Stites, M., Sonnenschein, S., Dowling, R., & Gay, B. (in press). Mathematics learning opportunities in preschool: Where does the classroom library fit in? Special issue of Early Education and Development. Article
  • Simons, C.L, Metzger, S.R., & Sonnenschein, S. (in press). Children’s metacognitive knowledge of five key learning processes. Translational Issues in Psychological Science: Special Issue on Metacognition, 6(1) 32-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tps0000219 Article
  • Shanty, L., Dowling, R., Sonnenschein, S., & Hussey-Gardner, B. (2019). Evaluation of an early language and literacy program for parents of Infants in the NICU. Journal of Neonatology Nursing, 38(4), 207-216. doi: 10.1891/0730- 0832.384.1 Article
  • Galindo, C., Sonnenschein, S.,& Montoya-Avila, A.  (2019). Latina mothers’ engagement in children’s math learning in the early school years: Conceptions of math and socialization practices. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 47, 271-283. doi: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.11.007 Article
  • Metzger, S. R., Sonnenschein, S., & Galindo, C. (2019). Elementary-age children’s conceptions about math utility and their home-based math engagement. Journal of Educational Research 112(4), 431-446. doi: 10.1080/00220671.2018.1547961 Article
  • Diamant-Cohen, B., Sonnenschein, S., Sacks, D., Rosswog, S., & Hussey-Gardner, B. (2018). Mother Goose in the NICU: Support for our neediest infants. Invited article. Children and Libraries, 16, 1-5. Article
  • Sonnenschein, S., Metzger, S.R., Dowling, R., Gay, B., & Simons, C.L. (2016). Extending an effective classroom-based math board game intervention to preschoolers’ homes. Journal of Applied Research on Children, 7(2), 1-29.  Article
  • Sonnenschein, S., Metzger, S. R., Dowling, R., & Baker, L. (2016). The relative importance of English vs. Spanish language skills for low-income Latino English language learners’ early language and literacy development. Early Child Development and Care, 187, 727-743. doi: 10.1080/03004430.2016.1219854 Article
  • Sonnenschein, S., & Sun, S. (2016). Racial/ethnic differences in kindergartners’ reading and math Skills: Parents’ knowledge of children’s development and home-based activities as mediators. Infant and Child Development, 26. doi:10.1002/icd.2010 Article
  • Sonnenschein, S., Metzger, S.R., & Thompson, J.A. (2016). Low-income parents’ socialization of their preschoolers’ early reading and math skills. Research in Human Development, 13, 191-208 Article
  • Thompson, J.A., & Sonnenschein, S. (2016). Full-day kindergarten and children’s later reading: The role of early word reading. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 42, 58-70. doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2015.11.005 Article
  • Galindo, C., & Sonnenschein, S. (2015). Decreasing the SES math achievement gap: Initial math proficiency and home learning environments. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 43, 25-38. Article
  • Sonnenschein, S., & Galindo, C. (2015). Race/ethnicity and initial math skills: Relations between home, classroom, and math achievement. Journal of Educational Research, 108, 261-277.  Article
  • Sonnenschein, S., Stapleton, L.M., & Metzger, S. R. (2014). What parents know about how well their children are doing in school. The Journal of Educational Research, 107, 152-162. Article
  • Sonnenschein, S.,Thompson, J. A., Metzger, S. R., & Baker, L. (2013). The importance of teachers’ language and children’s vocabulary to early academic skills. NHSA Dialog: A Research- to-Practice Journal for the Early Childhood Field, 16, 107-112.  Article 
  • Sonnenschein, S., Thompson, J. A., Metzger, S. R., & Baker, L. (2013). Relations between preschool teachers’ language and gains in low income English language learners’ and English speakers’ vocabulary, early literacy and math skills NHSA Dialog:  A Research- to-Practice Journal for the Early Childhood Field, 16, 64-87.  Article
  • Sonnenschein, S, Galindo, C., Metzger, S. R., Thompson, J.A., Huang, H. C., & Lewis, H.  (2012). Parents’ beliefs about children’s math development and children’s participation in math activities. Child Development Research Journal Online, doi:10.1155/2012/851657 Article
  • Sonnenschein, S., Stapleton, L.M., & Benson, A. (2010). The relation between the type and amount of instruction and growth in children’s reading competencies. American Educational Research Journal, 47, 358-389. Article