Sara Baker

Professor, University of Cambridge

Cambridge

Research Expertise

psychology and education
science of learning
executive functions
cognitive development
learning through play

About

Specialist in the science of learning; early years and primary education; child development

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Publications

Critical thinking in practice: The priorities and practices of instructors teaching in higher education
Thinking Skills and Creativity
2021
Integrating metacognition and executive function to enhance young children’s perception of and agency in their learning
Early Childhood Research Quarterly
2020
Making space for children’s agency with playful learning
International Journal of Early Years Education
2021
The Opposites Task: Using General Rules to Test Cognitive Flexibility in Preschoolers
Journal of Cognition and Development
2010
Inhibitory control interacts with core knowledge in toddlers’ manual search for an occluded object
Developmental Science
2011
Culture‐specific links between maternal executive function, parenting, and preschool children's executive function in South Korea
British Journal of Educational Psychology
2018
Processing of gaze direction within the N170/M170 time window: A combined EEG/MEG study
Neuropsychologia
2017
A synthesis of the quantitative literature on autistic pupils' experience of barriers to inclusion in mainstream schools
Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs
2020
Bayesian change-point analysis reveals developmental change in a classic theory of mind task
Cognitive Psychology
2016
The role of play in children’s learning: the perspective of Ghanaian early years stakeholders
Early Years
2018
Lessons for Successful Cognitive Developmental Science in Educational Settings: The Case of Executive Functions
Journal of Cognition and Development
2018
Advancing Educational Research on Children’s Self-Regulation With Observational Measures
Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment
2022
Agency, children’s voice and adults’ responsibility
Education 3-13
2022
Subject Comprehension and Critical Thinking: An Intervention for Subject Comprehension and Critical Thinking in Mixed-Academic-Ability University Students
The Journal of General Education
2016
Principles for Adapting Assessments of Executive Function across Cultural Contexts
Brain Sciences
2024
Participant engagement with play research – examples and lessons learned from the Centre for Play in Education, Development and Learning
International Journal of Play
2020
Introducing the Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL) Research Centre
International Journal of Play
2019
‘He will play because it is play’. Exploring Ghanaian early years parents’ ethno-theories about play and learning
Early Years
2022
Rethinking engagement with learning for neurodiverse students
Psychology of Education Review
2022
Water, sanitation, hygiene and enteric infections in children
Archives of Disease in Childhood
2013
New Variant of Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Associated with Invasive Disease in Immunocompromised Patients in Vietnam
mBio
2018
Multiple Influences on Parental Scaffolding for Young Children's Self-Regulation
Multiple Influences on Parental Scaffolding for Young Children's Self-Regulation
2022
Actuality bias in verb learning: The case of sublexically modal transfer verbs
Linguistics
2020
A data mining and item response mixture modeling method to retrospectively measure Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‐5 attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in the 1970 British Cohort Study
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
2018
Staying self‐regulated in the classroom: The role of children's executive functions and situational factors
British Journal of Educational Psychology
2024
Staying self-regulated in the classroom: The role of children’s executive functions and situational factors
Unknown Venue
2023
The Effects of Self-Esteem and Dispositional Defensive Pessimism on Self-Regulated Learning Ability among Pre-Service Early Childhood Teachers
Korean Journal of Early Childhood Education
2018
Empowering Play in Primary Education
Unknown Venue
2024
The state of play: (primary education) introduction
Empowering Play in Primary Education
2024
Playing with change: insights and lessons from researching play during the COVID-19 pandemic
International Journal of Play
2023
Development
Unknown Venue
2018
Playful enquiry: between academic research and practitioner wisdom
Empowering Play in Primary Education
2024
Developing a Culturally Relevant Executive Function Observation Scale Based on Interviews with Nigerian Preschool Teachers
Unknown Venue
2024
Learning through play in Global Majority countries: reflections from the PEDAL centre on understanding and adapting the concept in four different contexts
International Journal of Play
2024
Multidrug resistance plasmids underlie clonal expansions and international spread ofSalmonella entericaserotype 4,[5],12,i:- ST34 in Southeast Asia
Unknown Venue
2023
Evolutionary histories and antimicrobial resistance in Shigella flexneri and Shigella sonnei in Southeast Asia
Communications Biology
2021
A59 A strategy to studying zoonotic infectious diseases
Virus Evolution
2019
Genomics ofCryptococcus neoformans
Unknown Venue
2018
Quantifying antimicrobial access and practices for paediatric diarrheal disease in an urban community setting in Southeast Asia
Unknown Venue
2017
A28 Frequent co-infection among human group a rotaviruses in Thailand
Virus Evolution
2017
The Vietnam Initiative on Zoonotic Infections (VIZIONs): An interim analysis of the epidemiology and aetiology of central nervous system infections
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2016
Modeling the potential impact of typhoid conjugate vaccines
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2014
Solving the typhoid diagnostics conundrum
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2012
Risk factors of norovirus infection and the spatiotemporal dynamics of GII.4 strain replacement in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2012
Emergence of a Globally Dominant IncHI1 Plasmid Type Associated with Multiple Drug Resistant Typhoid
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2011
Traditions in implementation: case study of falls prevention in a rural health authority
Injury Prevention
2010
Acute acalculous cholecystitis and gall bladder perforation induced by <i>Salmonella enterica</i> serovar typhi
Journal of Institute of Medicine Nepal
1970
Jackson, Jesse, Jr.
African American Studies Center
2009
Prevalence of qnr and aac(6′)-Ib-cr Genes in Community-Acquired Enterobacteriaceae Isolated in Healthy Volunteers in Hochiminh City
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2008
Can opposites attract? Predicting subordinate outcomes based upon personality heterogeneity
PsycEXTRA Dataset
2004
Symptoms, diagnosis and prognosis
Primary Care Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia
2011
The sinusoidal probe: a new approach to improve electrode longevity
Frontiers in Neuroengineering
2014
The Other “Authoritarian Personality”
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
1998

Education

PhD, Cognitive Psychology / October, 2007

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