
Dr. Jelena Obradović is a developmental psychologist and a professor at Stanford University in the Graduate School of Education, the director of the SPARK Lab, and the associate director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood. Her research examines how the interplay of children’s physiological stress arousal, executive functions, self-regulatory behaviors, and quality of caregiving and educational environments contributes to their health, learning, and well-being over time. She is leading the Global Executive Function Initiative to develop multi-method, multi-informant assessment tools and guidelines to study how executive function skills and behaviors are expressed and leveraged in different settings to support culturally relevant learning outcomes. She is currently developing and validating new performance-based measures of young learners’ curiosity, creativity thinking, problem-solving, and scientific inquiry.
Presentation Video Link: Children's Executive Functions Universal & Cultural Relevance