Resources

Some optional resources that attendees may want to review before attending the tutorials or hackathon.

R/Rstudio

• How to download R/Rstudio
• Introduction to R
• Introduction to Quarto and Rmarkdown
• Introduction to tidyverse, another good resource to learn tidyverse
• Introduction to ggplot2

Git and GitHub

• For version control and collaboration
• For project management

Basic terminal commands

• A very abbreviated summary of basic terminal commands

Recommended reference papers

• Frank, M. C., Baumgartner, H. A., Braginsky, M., Kachergis, G., Lightbody, A. A., Sparks, R. Z., Zhu, R., Carlson, S. M., Graham, S., Lipina, S. J., Newcombe, N. S., Odgers, C. L., Pianta, R. C., Siegler, R. S., Snowling, M., Yoshikawa, H., Cubillo, A., & Dodge, K. A. (2025). Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children’s Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.70011
• Kachergis, G., O’Reilly, F., Braginsky, M., Xiao, X., Lightbody, A. A., Shannon, K. A., Watson, Z., Zhang, L., Zhu, R., Abutto, A.B., Wanjing A.M., Long, B., Murray, T., Yeatman, J.D., Sulik, M.J., Obradovic, J., Jenkins, N., Ansari, D., Perfetti, M.C., … Frank, M. C. (2025, December 17). Creation and validation of the LEVANTE core tasks: Internationalized measures of learning and development for children ages 5-12 years. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/r4dhw_v1
• Domingue, B.W. (2026). Psychometric Rigor for the Real World: Item Banking in Developmental Research. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-111124-041520