| Name | Photo | Year entered PIER | Home Department | Ed Experience | Research Focus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norma Chang (Graduated 5/06) |  |
2004 | PSY | Psych., 5 yrs as high school teacher | Analogical mapping in statistics problems. New Job: UC Berkeley. more | |
| Matt Easterday |  |
2004 | HCII | Peace core (Mongolia). Taught robotics in high school | Development of computer tutors for causality lab. more | |
| Elsa Golden |  |
2004 | HCII | CS. Software development | Training programs for human factors in software engineering more | |
| Yvonne Kao |  |
2004 | PSY | Cognitive development. Science projects | Cognitive and cogneuro aspects of learning geometry more | |
| Elida Laski |  |
2004 | PSY | 5 yrs elem school teacher | Early number concepts, estimation skills more | |
| Amy Ogan |  |
2004 | HCII | Science and math camps, and projects | Cultural factors in 2nd language acquisition tutoring in multimedia context. more | |
| Ido Roll (PIER Associate) |  |
2004 | HCII | Math, Physics, and Human factors | Help-seeking cognitive tutors more | |
| Jamie Jirout |  |
2005 | PSY | 3 & 1/2 yrs Psych research assistant on Head Start evaluation. | Impact of pre-school instruction on at-risk children more | |
| Ruth Wylie |  |
2005 | HCII | Taught high school English (rural Japan) | Educational technology and instructional learning systems. more | |
| Ben Shih |  |
2005 | MLD | Applied data mining techniques | Learning contexts outside traditional institutional forms more | |
| Tom Lauwers |  |
2005 | RI | Worked with high school students, robot competition. | Educational robotics more | |
| Turadg Aleahmad |  |
2006 | HCII | 8 yrs in secondary schools and in higher education developing UC-WISE, the semester-based adaptation for Berkeley CS courses. |
Use digital communication to improve education and to explore the potential of technology to expand learning out of its traditional formal structures and into people's daily lives.more | |
| Beth Ayers |  |
2006 | STAT | Supplemen-tal instructor, and math tutor | To contribute to evidence based educational research. To make accurate predictions of student perform- ance on end of year tests based on work with computer base tutors.more | |
| Nora Presson |  |
2006 | PSY | Teaching and tutoring Spanish | Integrating the principles of cognitive psychology, and what is known about learning, memory, and the structure of language, to a base of educational knowledge in order to change language education. more | |
| AprilGalyardt |  |
2007 | STATS | BA from Texas Tech, and an MS from Northern Illinois University , both in mathematics. . |
interest in designing educational experiences in mathematics at the secondary and collegiate levels. more |
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| Michael Heilman |  |
2007 | LTI | REAP tutoring system for English as a Second Language vocabulary --Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. |
apply empirical methods for natural language processing to intelligent tutoring systemsm-- create better education technologies by using language technologies. more | |
| Bryan Matlen |  |
2007 | PSY | the role of perceptual similarity and relational complexity on young children's ability to reason by analogy. | investigate what drives analogical transfer in children and how to apply this research to facilitate children's learning and thinking in the classroom more | |
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