My current research involves collection and analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data regarding student experiences, performance and engagement in science education from elementary school through graduate school.
Skills and Expertise:
- STEM Education
- Science Education
- STEM
- Teaching and Learning
Research Areas:
- STEM Education, Making in education
Active Research
- Online Practice Suite: Practice Spaces, Simulations and Virtual Reality Environments for Preservice Teachers to Learn to Facilitate Argumentation Discussions in Math and Science
- Collaborative Research: The Notion of Failure and Maker Programming for Youth: Supporting the Professional Development, Reflection, and Learning of Informal Educators
- RAPID: Rapidly building a collaborative network of informal educators to address extended school closures related to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
- Engineering a Community-Family Partnership: Developing a Program Aimed at Making and Design Practices in Home Environments
- Role Models in Engineering Education
- MakEval.
Older Projects:
- MakEngineering Kits
- Studying the Role of Failure in Design and Making
- Assessing Multinational Interest in STEM
- Student Interest in Science
- Undergraduate Scientists: Measuring the Outcomes of Research Experiences from multiple perspectives (US-MORE)
- Data Interpretation along the Novice – Expert Continuum
- Learning from the Learner’s Point of View.
