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Drew Bailey is a Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on understanding the developmental processes underlying stability and change in children’s academic achievement and on the medium- and long-term effects of educational interventions.
Drew Bailey argues that the role of causally informative evaluations of interventions within developmental psychology should be elevated. Causally informative research on the effects of intervention inputs on medium- and long-term outcomes is sufficiently relevant to developmental psychology to inform or even constrain our theories and to inspire future developmental research. He provides recent examples of research that yielded developmental insights from such work. Finally, he will discuss potential challenges that have inhibited the role of causally informative research on interventions in developmental psychology, along with actionable steps researchers can take to integrate such work more deeply into the field.
