Jelena Obradović

Jelena Obradović is an Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Developmental and Psychological Sciences program at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She is the recipient of a Jacobs Foundation Advanced Research Fellowship, a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Award, and Early Career Research Contribution Award from the Society for Research in Child Development. Jelena’s research examines how the interplay of children’s physiological stress arousal, self-regulatory skills, and quality of caregiving environments contributes to their health, learning, and well-being over time. Her current work involves the development of novel, pragmatic, scalable assessments of executive functions, emotion regulation, and motivation.

Contributions by Jelena

How can caregivers support kids when distance learning becomes necessary?

Jelena Obradović / 25 August 2020

Article Development Covid-19

Assessing social and emotional learning at school is crucial but tricky

Jelena Obradović / 25 October 2019

Article Learning & Education 21st century skills

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