2025
Miller-Cotto, D., Ribner, A., Ahmed, S. F., Ellis, A., & Czerwiński, S. (in press). Examining ethnic/racial measurement invariance in fourth grade executive function: A registered report of data from the ECLS-K. Journal of Educational Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000985
Ellis, A., Connor, D. O., Cosso, J., & Purpura, D. J. (2025). Examining the factor structure of the home learning environment. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 252, 106186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106186
Cosso, J., Ellis, A., Camargo Salamanca, S. L., Susperreguy, M. I. (2025). Variation in Mathematical Performance: A Multilevel Analysis Exploring Students’ and Schools’ Characteristics. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 11, e14087. https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.14087
Varnell, S.,* Ehrman, P., Kumar, S. C., Sandel, J., Ellis, A., & Purpura, D. J. (2025). What I say is not what I do: Gender differences in the home mathematics environment. Developmental Psychology, 61(3), 482–494. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001901
2024
Ellis, A., & Davis-Kean, P. E. (2024). Analyzing teacher audio: The contribution of classroom mathematics instruction to early numeracy. The Journal of Educational Research, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220671.2024.2393607
Davis-Kean, P. E., Ellis, A., & Syed, M. (2024). Editorial: Registered Reports with secondary developmental data: Introduction to the special issue. Infant and Child Development, 33: e2506. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2506
Devlin, B. L., Ellis, A., Zehner, T. M., Duncan, R. J., Elicker, J., Purpura, D. J., & Schmitt, S. A. (2024). Contributions of preschool behavioral self-regulation and social skills to growth in different domains of early math knowledge. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 241, 105867. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105867
2023
Kim, M. H., Buford, K., Ellis, A., Davis-Kean, P. E., Antony, C., Braun, C., Hurst, T., & Todd, J. (2023). A Metascience Investigation of Inclusive, Open, and Reproducible Science Practices in Research Posters at the 2021 SRCD Biennial Meeting. Child Development. https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.14059
Ellis, A., Cosso, J., Duncan, R. J., Susperreguy, M. I., Simms, V., & Purpura, D. J. (2023). International Comparisons of the Home Mathematics Environment and Academic Achievement. British Journal of Educational Psychology, e12625. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12625
Purpura, D. J., O’Rear, C. D., Ellis, A., Logan, J. A. R., Westerberg, L., Ehrman, P., King, Y. A., Vander Tuin, M., Nordgren, I., Anderson, K., Cosso, J., Zippert, E., Napoli, A. R., Hornburg, C. B., Schmitt, S. A., & Dobbs-Oates, J. (2023). Unique and Combined Effects of Quantitative Mathematical Language and Numeracy Instruction Within a Picture Book Intervention: A Registered Report. Journal of Educational Psychology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0000820
Ehrman, P.*, Ellis, A., & Purpura, D. J. (2023). Goldilocks and the Home Math Environment: Parents’ Rate Activities ‘too easy,’ ‘just right,’ or ‘too hard’ Across Early Development. Infant and Child Development. http://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2458
Ribner, A., Ahmed, S. F., Miller-Cotto, D., Ellis, A. (2023). The role of executive function in shaping the longitudinal stability of math achievement during early elementary grades. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 64, 84-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2023.02.004
BOOK CHAPTER
Ahmed, S. F, Chaku, N., Waters, N. E., Ellis, A., & Davis-Kean, P. E. (2023). Developmental cascades and educational attainment. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 171. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.acdb.2022.10.006
2022
Ahmed, S.F., Ellis, A., Ward, K.P., Chaku, N., & Davis-Kean, P.E. (2022) Working memory development from early childhood to adolescence using two nationally representative samples. Developmental Psychology, 58(10), 1962–1973.https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001396
Cosso, J.*, Ellis, A., O’Rear, C. D., Zippert, E. L., Schmitt, S. A., & Purpura, D. J. (2022). Conceptualizing the factor structure of parents’ math anxiety and associations with children’s mathematics skills. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1511(1), 119-132 https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14736
Davis-Kean, P. E., Domina, T., Kuhfeld, M., Ellis, A., & Gershoff, E. T. (2021). It Matters How You Start: Early Numeracy Mastery Predicts High School Math Course-Taking and College Attendance. Infant and Child Development, 31(2), e2281. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2281
BOOK CHAPTERS
O’Rear, C. D., Zippert, E. L., Ehrman, P., Ellis, A., Purpura, D. J. (2022). Based Design and Use of Picture Books to Promote Children’s Early Mathematical Learning: A Conceptual Model. In Handbook of Research on Innovative Approaches to Early Childhood Development and School Readiness (pp. 602-636). IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8649-5.ch025
Ellis, A., Westerberg, L., King, Y. A., Eason, S. H., Connor, D. O., & Purpura, D. J. (2022). To Home Literacy and Beyond: Discussing Subdomains of the Home Learning Environment. In Handbook of Research on Innovative Approaches to Early Childhood Development and School Readiness (pp. 212-241). IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8649-5.ch010
2021
Ellis, A., Susperreguy, M. I., Purpura, D. J., & Davis-Kean, P. E. (2021). Conceptual Replication and Extension of the Relation Between the Number Line Estimation Task and Mathematical Competence Across Seven Studies. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 7(3), 435-452. https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.7033
Ellis, A., Ahmed, S. F., Zeytinoglu, S., Isbell, E., Grammer, J.K., Gehring, W. J., Calkins, S. D., Leerkes, E. M., Morrison, F. J. & Davis-Kean, P. E. (2021). Reciprocal associations between executive function and academic achievement: A conceptual replication of Schmitt et al. (2017). Journal of Numerical Cognition, 7(3), 453-472. https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.7047
Hornburg, C. B., Borriello, G. A., Kung, M., Lin, J., Litkowski, E., Cosso, J., Ellis, A., King, Y. A., Zippert, E., Cabrera, N. J., Davis-Kean, P., Eason, S. H., Hart, S. A., Iruka, I. U., LeFevre, J.-A., Simms, V., Susperreguy, M. I., Cahoon, A., Chan, W. W. L., … 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. https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.6143
2020
Ellis, A. (2020). The Role of Classroom Instruction in the Development of Early Number Skills (Doctoral Dissertation). https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/163229
2019
Davis-Kean, P. E., & Ellis, A. (2019) An overview of issues in infant and developmental research for the creation of robust and replicable science. Infant Behavior and Development, 57, 101339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2019.101339
2018
Ellis, A., Hu, X., Smith, C., Davis-Kean, P. E., & Kovelman, I. (2018). Sharing as a model for understanding division. Neuroreport, 29(11), 889- 893. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0000000000001050
2016
BOOK CHAPTER
Miller, A., Ellis, A., & Domoff, S. (2016). Food Talk in Families. In Socializing Children Through Language (pp. 147-176). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803624-2.00006-0
Alexa Ellis, PhD 