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| Norma Chang (Graduated 5/06) norming@berkeley.edu |  |
2004 | PSY | Psych., 5 yrs as high school teacher | Analogical mapping in statistics problems. New Job: UC Berkeley. more | |
| Matt Easterday mwe@andrew.cmu.edu |  |
2004 | HCII | Peace core (Mongolia). Taught robotics in high school | Development of computer tutors for causality lab. more | |
| Elsa Golden egolden@andrew.cmu.edu |  |
2004 | HCII | CS. Software development | Training programs for human factors in software engineering more | |
| Yvonne Kao ykao@andrew.cmu.edu |  |
2004 | PSY | Cognitive development. Science projects | Cognitive and cogneuro aspects of learning geometry more | |
| Elida Laski laski@bc.edu |  |
2004 | PSY | 5 yrs elem school teacher | Early number concepts, estimation skills more | |
| Amy Ogan aeo@andrew.cmu.edu |  |
2004 | HCII | 4 yrs teaching at science summer camps, mentoring | Motivational issues in using educational games for learning of social skills more |
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| Ido Roll (PIER Associate) idoroll@cmu.edu |  |
2004 | HCII | Math, Physics, and Human factors | Help-seeking cognitive tutors more | |
| Jamie Jirout jjirout@andrew.cmu.edu |  |
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 rwylie@andrew.cmu.edu |  |
2005 | HCII | Taught high school English (rural Japan) | Educational technology and instructional learning systems. more | |
| Ben Shih bshih@andrew.cmu.edu |  |
2005 | MLD | Applied data mining techniques | Learning contexts outside traditional institutional forms more | |
| Tom Lauwers tlauwers@andrew.cmu.edu |  |
2005 | RI | Worked with high school students, robot competition. | Educational robotics more | |
| Turadg Aleahmad turadg@cmu.edu |  |
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 eayers@stat.cmu.edu |  |
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 Presson@cmu.edu |  |
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 galyardt@stat.cmu.edu |  |
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 mheilman@cmu.edu |  |
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 bmatlen@andrew.cmu.edu |  |
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 | |
| Collen Davy cdavy1@andrew.cmu.edu |  |
2008 | PSY | research assistant on two projects with the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. The one she worked on primarily is Nel de Jong's study on fostering fluency in the ESL classroom | improve second language learning acquisition in the classroom. to create tutors and activities to foster a more effective learning environment. more |
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| Iris Howley iris@cmu.edu |  |
2008 | HCII | Semantic Web technologies to various domains such as applications for first responders on unpredictable wireless networks, a robot classification system for urban search and rescue, and interpreting log data from robot creation software for children | to reduce math anxiety in school-aged children via a technological approach |
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| Martina Rau (PIER Associate) mrau@cmu.edu |  |
2008 | HCII | research assistant on projects with intelligent tutoring systems in the domains of chemistry and algebra | learning with multiple graphical representations in the domain of fractions and she will pursue this line of research further in order to gain insights in how learners abstract concepts from experience with multifold instances |
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| Leigh Ann Sudol lsudol@andrew.cmu.edu |  |
2008 | CS | high school math and computers at an inner city school in Fort Lauderdale Florida plus additional extensive teaching more | how people learn computer science. Her current focus is on mental models of data and instructional methods that make use of student's prior knowledge and abstract data type libraries to improve introductory computer science education. |
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| Tracy Sweet tsweet@andrew.cmu.edu |  |
2008 | Stat | high school math for five years followed by a year working with at the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University in high school reform | education problems. She is particularly interested in assessment data and educating at-risk students. |
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Karrie Godwin
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2009 | Psych | Licensure in Elementary Education from the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the University of Colorado, Karrie conducted research with Dr. Eliana Colunga on children’s early word learning and categorization. |
Language acquisition in monolingual and bilingual populations, attention, and categorization. |
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| Derek Lomas jlomas@andrew.cmu.edu |
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2009 | HCII | co-founded the Social Movement Laboratory (socialmovement.org), a hybrid science/art laboratory for the investigation of the aesthetics and dynamics of social interaction. | seeks to develop new design processes for creating games that target nationwide curriculum goals. more |
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| Casey Studer cstuder@cmu.edu |
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2009 | Stat | interested in education statistics | cognitive assessment models to include the effects of students learning over time more |
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| Nathan VanHoudnos nathanvan@gmail.com |
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2009 | Stat & Public Policy | Teach for America program in rural Arkansas crystallized his interest in educational research that can be applied at the whole-school, whole-district, or whole-state levels | development of novel statistical tools to be applied to educational policy problems more |
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