Assessing students in their learning environment continues to be an important avenue for understanding the developing brain. One of the many changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is a shift to virtual and remote learning opportunities. Just as parents, students, and teachers had to adjust to the virtual and hybrid classrooms, so too must researchers adapt their methods and research strategies to work in this new context. Here, we present our experiences conducting behavioral assessments in remote environments. We discuss the challenges presented in a fully virtual environment when neither the teachers nor researchers can physically interact with students, and contrast that with a hybrid environment in which researchers were remote, but teachers and students were together in their physical classroom. By sharing our experiences and insights into how to conduct research with students remotely, we aim to encourage more researchers to take advantage of this new avenue of research that has the potential to increase participation for populations geographically farther from the research team at a lower cost of effort for the research team, which can particularly help increase participation from underrepresented groups.
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