Learning Sciences Academics

Explore our academics in Learning Sciences and their areas of research expertise

Kim Koh

Kim Koh - Specialization Chair

  • Classroom assessment and student learning
  • Quantitative research methods
  • Educational and psychological measurement
  • Technology and teacher education
  • Teacher learning and professional development

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Barbara Brown

Barbara Brown

  • Teacher education
  • Qualitative research
  • Collaborative, school-based research
  • Technology-enhanced learning environments
  • Leadership 

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Man-Wai Chu

Man-Wai Chu

  • Classroom assessment and student learning
  • Science education
  • Educational technology
  • Quantitative research methods
  • Applied statistical methods

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Douglas Clark

Douglas Clark

  • Game-based learning
  • Complexity
  • Science education
  • Agent-based computation
  • Educational technology

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Brent Davis

Brent Davis

  • Mathematics education
  • Mathematics teachers' disciplinary knowledge
  • Teacher education
  • Complexity research in education
  • Cognitive science

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Krista Francis

Krista Francis

  • Collaborative design of rich mathematical tasks
  • Learning sciences
  • Mathematical problem solving
  • Mathematics education
  • Mathematics teaching and learning

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Michele Jacobsen

Michele Jacobsen

  • Design Based Research
  • Educational Technology
  • Learning Sciences
  • Online and Blended Learning
  • Supervision and Graduate Education

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Beaumie Kim

Beaumie Kim

  • Collaborative, school-based research
  • Integrating technology in education
  • Learners' ideas in science
  • Qualitative research using video
  • User-centered design

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Jennifer Lock

Jennifer Lock

  • E-learning
  • Integrating technology in education
  • Leadership of educational technology 
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Makerspaces

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Matthew Makel

Matthew Makel

  • Academic talent identification
  • Gifted education
  • Open science
  • Replication 
  • Research practices

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Armando Preciado Babb

Armando Preciado Babb

  • Collaborative, school-based research
  • Complexity research in education
  • Mathematics education
  • Mathematics teachers' disciplinary knowledge
  • Mathematical problem solving

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Pratim Sengupta

Pratim Sengupta

  • Educational technology
  • Complexity
  • Science education
  • Theory/philosophy of science
  • Design based research

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Marie-Claire Shanahan

Marie-Claire Shanahan

  • Science education
  • Identity development
  • Conversation and discourse analysis
  • Theory/philosophy of science
  • Sociology of science 

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Miwa Aoki Takeuchi

Miwa Aoki Takeuchi

  • Sociocultural and geopolitical perspectives on learning
  • STEM pedagogy toward justice (environmental, food, and social justice)
  • Equity and justice in mathematics education
  • Language, arts, and society
  • Critical childhood studies

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