Mengguo Jing

Mengguo Jing
The Ohio State University | OSU

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
I study children’s learning and cognitive development in the context of screen media. My research focuses on symbolic development, learning from narratives, and visual attention and information processing during screen media activities. My work emphasizes the cognitive mechanisms underlying the impacts of screen media on learning and transfer. I have been investigating these topics using experiments, psychometrics, and eye-tracking.
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October 2015 - July 2016
The University of Hong Kong
Position
  • Research Assistant

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The pervasiveness of digital media and the importance of language skills underscore a pressing need to understand the role of media in language development. Historically, research has focused on the quantity of children’s media use but there has been a recent focus on content (i.e., the kinds of media that children use), context (i.e., who children...
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AI-enabled technology possesses substantial potential to bolster childhood development and education. Human-like social robots, in particular, are believed to benefit young children. However, coupled with their merit features is robots’ digital nature that makes it difficult for young children to transfer what they learn from digital media to real...
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There is no doubt that children today are increasingly immersed in a digital world. Headlines often proclaim the number of hours children are spending on screens and the pandemic only increased awareness and concern about the implications for children’s development and well-being in this digital world. In this special issue of Translational Issues...
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This meta-analysis synthesizes research on media use in early childhood (0-6 years), word-learning, and vocabulary size. Multi-level analyses included 266 effect sizes from 63 studies (Ntotal = 11,413) published between 1988-2022. Among samples with information about race/ethnicity (51%) and sex/gender (73%), most were majority White/Non-Hispanic a...
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Low-level visual features (e.g., motion, contrast) predict eye gaze during video viewing. The current study investigated the effect of narrative coherence on the extent to which low-level visual salience predicts eye gaze. Eye movements were recorded as 4-year-olds (n = 20) and adults (n = 20) watched a cohesive versus random sequence of video shot...
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Though increasing attention is being paid to adolescents’ social media use, racially/ethnically-marginalized youth remain under-represented in that literature, and the effect of social media and its mechanism on these youth remain unclear. This study examined the effects of social media use on Black and Hispanic youth’s psychological and academic f...
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This study elicited and analyzed all the Chinese and English interrogatives from the Singapore Early Child Mandarin Corpus (132 children aged 2;6, 3;6, 4;6, and 5;6) to examine the effects and predictors of early bilingual development in Singapore preschoolers. The results indicated that: (1) there was significant age (but not gender) effect in the...
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Prior findings on the effects of active learning environments were limited by both research design and data-analysis techniques, such as lack of controls over confounding factors and misuse of statistical modeling. We (1) investigated the effects of active learning environments on student achievement and motivation and (2) overcame the limitations...
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The video deficit is sometimes observed in young children during video‐mediated learning. It is related to several critical development processes, such as mental representation and social interaction. Research on the video deficit demonstrates that infants and young children typically learn more from real‐life demonstrations than from video‐mediate...
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Researchers examined the effects of previewing on preschoolers' comprehension of narrative and educational content in a television program. Children (3-5 years, N = 107) watched an educational math episode in one of three conditions: no-preview control, education-focused expository preview, or story-focused narrative preview. A main effect of previ...
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Researchers examined the effects of previewing on preschoolers’ comprehension of narrative and educational content in a television program. Children (3-5 years, N = 107) watched an educational math episode in one of three conditions: no-preview control, education-focused expository preview, or story-focused narrative preview. A main effect of previ...
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This replication study aims at both quantifying the effects of active learning classrooms in introductory programming courses (CS1) and overcoming some design and methodological limits of prior studies on this topic. 156 students enrolled in three different sections of the same CS1 participated in this study. The three sections differed from each o...
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This study develops two scales, namely, the outside school social media behavior (OSSMB) scale and inside school social media behavior (ISSMB) scale, to measure the types of behavior that adolescent students engage in on social media in two separate contexts: outside school and inside school. Data collected from 814 students in four Hong Kong secon...
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Singapore has placed an unprecedented emphasis on early childhood education (ECE) in order to achieve the “top-rated education” aim proposed by the government at the beginning of the postmillennium. The major endeavors on ECE thus move from the local traditions of efficiency- and standardized-oriented education to a cosmopolitan outlook for the fut...
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This survey study investigated 186 secondary 2–5 school students from two schools to understand how and why they used new social media both in and outside of school to consume, share, and create content. It found that whereas students tend to consume and share more social media content outside of school they create more in school. Perceived importa...
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This study examined the development of and possible predictors of interrogative forms and functions in early childhood Mandarin. All the interrogatives drawn from the Early Child Mandarin Corpus (168 children 2;6, 3;6, 4;6, and 5;6) were analyzed. The main results indicated that (i) there were significant age effects in interrogative forms and func...
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This study examined the developmental trend of pretend play behaviour and the effect of partner's gender in Singaporean preschoolers. Peer dyadic play among 70 children, ranging in age from three to five years, was observed in a standardised toy play context. Videotaped recordings of the play were analysed using two scales – the Smilansky Scale for...

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