Nicole McNeil
Psychology
Sweeney Family Director of the Center for Educational Research and Action; Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) College Professor of Psychology; director of the Cognition, Learning, and Development (CLAD) Lab
- Cognitive development
- Mathematics cognition
- Early childhood education
- Developmental psychology
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The Daily Courier
Opinion: Why science belongs to all of us
August 06, 2025
By Nicole McNeil and Clarissa Thompson. McNeil is Professor of Psychology and ACE College Professor at the University of Notre Dame where she directs the Cognition Learning and Development Lab. She also currently serves as the inaugural Sweeney Family Director of the Center for Educational Research and Action (ERA).
The Conversation
Helping teachers learn what works in the classroom − and what doesn’t − will get a lot harder without the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences
February 12, 2025
By Nicole McNeil, Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame and Robert Stuart Siegler, Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University
WNDU
Advocacy group seeks tutors to combat ‘3rd grade reading crisis’ in South Bend
Video
February 04, 2025
“I mean, that’s not just because of the pandemic, it’s historically true,” said Nicole McNeil, a professor at Notre Dame and a founder of Tutor ND. “The pandemic made it much worse, and the pandemic made it much worse for our most vulnerable children.”