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| Adam, Emma
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| Associate Professor, Education and Social Policy |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Identifying social influences on emotional and physiological stress in children and adolescents and their parents; effects of acute and chronic physiological stress on emotional and physical health, in particular the role of HPA axis activity in the emergence of early health disparities and the development of emotional disorders over the transition to adulthood. |
BS, Psychology , University of Toronto , 1990
MA, Applied Developmental Psychology , University of Toronto , 1992
MA, Public Policy , University of Chicago , 1998
PhD, Child Psychology , University of Minnesota , 1998
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| Birnbaum, Lawrence
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| Associate Professor , Computer Science |
| Director , Intellectual Property Management |
| Natural language understanding, opportunistic planning, machine learning. |
PhD , Yale University , 1986
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| Cassell, Justine
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| Professor, Education |
| Professor, Communications Studies |
DEUG , Université de Besançon , 1981
BA , Dartmouth College , 1982
MLitt , University of Edinburgh , 1986
PhD , University of Chicago , 1991
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| Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay
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| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy PhD Program |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Public policy and child and adolescent development; family functioning; consequences of poverty and welfare reform on children and families |
BA, Social Relations , Harvard University, Radcliffe College , 1974
PhD, Developmental Psychology , The University of Michigan , 1981
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| Collins, Allan
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| Professor Emeritus, Learning Sciences |
| Technology and education, teaching and learning, scientific inquiry |
MA, Communication Sciences , University of Michigan , 1961
PhD, Cognitive Psychology , University of Michigan , 1970
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| Colyvas, Jeannette
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| Organizations and entrepreneurship, comparing public, private, and non-profit forms of organizing, and the study of networks |
Ph.D. , Stanford University , 2007
M.A., Sociology, M.A., East Asian Studies , Stanford University
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| Cook, Fay
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| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy PhD Program |
| Director and Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| The interrelationships between public opinion and social policy; the politics of public policy; the effects of public deliberation on political knowledge and participation; and the dynamics of public support for older Americans |
BA, English , Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi , 1965
MA, English Literature , University of North Carolina , 1968
MA, Social Welfare Policy , University of Chicago , 1972
PhD, Social Welfare Policy , University of Chicago , 1977
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| Cook, Thomas
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| Joan and Serepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice |
| Professor , Psychology |
| Professor , Sociology |
| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy PhD Program |
| Fellow , American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Social science methodology, evaluation, educational policy |
Ph.D. , Stanford , 1967
B.A. , Oxford , 1963
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| Cytrynbaum, Solomon
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| Professor, Education |
| Professor , Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
| Associate Director for Education, The Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies , Psychology Graduate Program |
| Evaluation of school reform; gender and authority in groups and organizations; organizational consultation; application of group and systems theory and research to school change. |
BA, Arts and Sciences , McGill University, Montreal, Canada , 1959
MA, Child Development and Family Relations , Cornell University, Ithaca, New York , 1962
PhD, Psychology , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan , 1971
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| Duncan, Greg
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| Edwina S. Tarry Professor , Education |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Impacts of poverty, neighborhood conditions and welfare reform on children's development; program evaluation |
BA, Economics , Grinnell College , 1970
PhD, Economics , University of Michigan , 1974
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| Forbus, Kenneth
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| Professor , Computer Science |
| Professor , Education |
| In artificial intelligence, specifically qualitative reasoning, spatial reasoning, analogical reasoning and learning, and inference engine design.
In cognitive science, understanding how analogy and similarity work, including the roles they play in cognitive and perceptual processes.
In education, using AI techniques to create new types of educational software and activities.
In human-computer interaction, the use of sketching as an interface modality to knowledge-rich systems.
In computer game design, the roles AI, and especially articulate software, can play in creating better game engines and synthetic characters.
For more information, including descriptions of ongoing projects, please see our group's web page. |
PhD , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1984
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| Gentner, Dedre
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| Professor , Psychology |
| Professor , Education |
| Learning, reasoning, and conceptual change in adults and children, especially processes of similarity; metaphor, and analogy; mental models; acquisition of meaning. |
PhD , University of California, Berkeley , 1974
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| Gomez, Louis
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| Aon Professor of Learning Sciences |
| Professor , Computer Science |
| Coordinator, Learning Sciences PhD Program |
| Curriculum design and systemic school reform; school and classroom organization support through technology; application of computing and networking technology to teaching and learning; applied cognitive science; human-computer interaction. |
BA, Psychology , State University of New York at Stony Brook , 1974
PhD, Cognitive Psychology , University of California at Berkeley , 1979
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| Associate Director , Office of STEM and Education Partnerships (OSEP) |
| Research Assistant Professor |
| Education outreach and faculty partnerships with schools and other educational institutions, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); after-school and out-of-school learning and programs; design-based STEM learning environments research and evaluation |
B.A. , University of Chicago , 1985
M.S.T. , University of Chicago , 1992
Ph.D. , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 2004
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| Hammond, Kristian
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| Director , Intelligent Information Laboratory, Department of Computer Science |
| Associate Professor, Learning Sciences |
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy , Yale University , 1979
Master of Science in Computer Science , Yale University , 1982
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science , Yale University , 1986
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| Haroutunian-Gordon, Sophie
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| Professor , Education and Social Policy |
| Director , Master of Science in Education |
| Philosophy of education, teacher education, interpretive discussion, philosophy of psychology. |
BA, Music, Religion/Philosophy , Cornell College , 1965
MA, Curriculum and Instruction , University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1966
PhD, Philosophy of Education , University of Chicago , 1976
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| Hedges, Larry
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| Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Development and application of statistical methods for the social, medical, and biological sciences. |
B.A., Mathematics , University of California at San Diego
M.A., Statistics , Stanford University
Ph.D., Mathematical Methods in Educational Research , Stanford University , 1980
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| Herman, Phillip
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| Research Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Research Director , Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools |
| Science education reform, teacher and student efficacy, motivation, learner-centered teaching and learning. |
BS, Russian Language and Literature , Georgetown University , 1985
MAT, Applied Linguistics , Georgetown University , 1987
PhD, Educational Psychology , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , 2000
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| Hirsch, Barton
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| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| After-school programs; program development, implementation, and evaluation; social relations during adolescence, with an emphasis on gender, race and social system influences; social networks. |
BA, Philosophy , University of Wisconsin , 1971
PhD, Psychology , University of Oregon , 1979
Postdoctorate, Social Ecology , Stanford University , 1981
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| Jona, Kemi
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| Learning Strategist , School of Continuing Studies |
| Research Associate Professor , Computer Science |
| Online learning, virtual schools, technologies to support online learning and collaboration, online laboratory science course design, corporate e-learning strategy and design |
BS (Honors), Computer Science and Psychology , University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1988
PhD, Computer Science , Northwestern University , 1995
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| Konstantopoulos, Spyros
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| Assistant Professor |
| Multilevel Models; Statistical Power; Teacher and School Effects; Class Size Effects; Meta-Analysis; Group Differences in Achievement. |
BA, Primary Education and Educational Psychology , University of Athens Greece , 1992
MS, Educational Psychology and Research Methodology , Purdue University , 1995
MS, Statistics , University of Chicago , 1999
PhD., Research Methodology , University of Chicago , 2003
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| Kwon, Samuel
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| Research Assistant Professor |
| Design of learning environments, urban school reform, science curriculum development, technology to support teaching and learning, educational software design |
BS, Electrical Science and Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1994
MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1994
PhD, Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, 2003
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| Lam, Eva
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| Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences, Asian American Studies |
| Multilingualism and cultural diversity in education, second language and literacy development, digital literacy and learning, language and identity, language socialization |
PhD, Education in Language, Literacy, and Culture , University of California, Berkeley , 2003
MA, Education in Language and Literacy , University of California, Berkeley , 1993
BA, Biological Science , San Jose State University , 1991
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| Lee, Carol
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| Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Professor , African American Studies |
| Co-Cordinator , SESP Spencer Research Training Program |
| Cultural contexts affecting learning broadly and literacy specifically; teacher preparation and development; classroom discourse; urban education. |
BA, The Teaching of Secondary School English , University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana , 1966
MA, English , University of Chicago , 1969
PhD, Education (Curriculum and Instruction) , University of Chicago , 1991
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| Lee, Seon-Young
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| Research Assistant Professor |
| Academic talent development, Psychosocial development of gifted students, Educational programs, Family and peer roles in talent development |
BA , Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea , 1995
MEd , Educational Psychology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea , 1997
PhD , Educational Psychology (Gifted and Creative Education), The University of Georgia, Athens , 2002
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| Lewis, Dan
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| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Lewis currently heads a large-scale university consortium that will study welfare reform efforts in Illinois. In another current project he is developing a new Suburban Action research Project that will deliver technical assistance to suburbs struggling with social problems. It will concentrate on issues of homelessness and crime prevention in its initial phase. |
BA, Political Science , Stanford University , 1968
PhD, History of Consciousness , University of California at Santa Cruz , 1980
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| Logan, Regina
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| Research Assistant Professor , Foley Center for the Study of Lives |
A.B. French Language and Literature , University of Michigan , 1970
M.A. French Language and Literature , University of Wisconsin , 1971
PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol, Northwestern University, 1993
MA, Teaching & Learning Processes, Northwestern University, 1984
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| Mandara, Jelani
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| Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Effects of parenting, fathers, and other home factors on child and adolescent academic and social development. Further interests include cultural differences between teachers and parents and mothers and fathers, the achievement gap, and person-centered research methods. |
BS, Psychology , California State University, Long Beach , 1997
PhD, Social/Personality Psychology , University of California, Riverside , 2002
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| McAdams, Dan
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| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Professor , Psychology |
| Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence |
| Director , The Foley Center for the Study of Lives |
| Chair, Human Development and Social Policy Program |
| Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) in Psychology |
| Narrative psychology. The development of a life-story model of human identity. Generativity and adult development. Themes of power, intimacy, and redemption in human lives. Modernity and the self. Autobiographical memory. Psychological biography. |
BS, Psychology and Humanities , Valparaiso University , 1976
PhD, Psychology and Social Relations , Harvard University , 1979
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| McDade, Thomas
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| Associate Professor |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Director , Laboratory for Human Biology Research |
| Human Biology; Biocultural Perspectives on Health and Human Development; Medical Anthropology and Global Health; Ecological immunology; Stress; Health Disparities; Laboratory Methods |
Ph.D. , Emory , 1999
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| McGee, Steven
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| Research Associate Professor, Learning Sciences |
M.B.A. , Wheeling Jesuit University , 2000
PhD, Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, 1995
BS, Human Dev & Social Pol, Northwestern University, 1988
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| McKenna, Ann
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| Research Associate Professor , Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Director of Education Improvement |
| Research Associate Professor (co-terminus), Learning Sciences |
| Learning through design and complex problem solving; design and implementation of innovative learning environments; adaptive expertise; engineering faculty pedagogy and conceptions of teaching and learning;assessment of engineering design competency. |
BS, Mechanical Engineering , Drexel University, Philadelphia , 1988
MS, Mechanical Engineering , Drexel University, Philadelphia , 1991
PhD, Science and Mathematics Education , University of California, Berkeley , 2001
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| Medin, Douglas
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| Professor , Psychology |
| Professor , Education |
| Director , Program in Culture, Language and Cognition |
| Co-Director , Program in Cognitive Studies of the Environment |
| Learning, reasoning, and conceptual change in adults and children, mental models; acquisition of meaning, culture and education. |
PhD , University of South Dakota , 1968
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| Olson, Brad
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| Research Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
Ph.D. Psychology , University of Iowa , 2001
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| Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula
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| Director, Center for Talent Development |
| Professor, Education and Social Policy |
| Talent development, accelerated educational programs, needs of special populations of gifted children |
BA, elementary education , St. Xavier University , 1977
MA, educational psychology , Northwestern University , 1981
PhD, educational psychology , Northwestern University , 1983
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Ortony, Andrew
*ON LEAVE
1/ 2008 - 12/ 2008 *
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| Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Professor , Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences |
| Professor , Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science |
| Coordinator, Master's Program in Learning Sciences |
| Emotion and cognition; Knowledge representation and figurative language comprehension; Human-computer interaction and interface design. |
MA, Philosophy , University of Edinburgh , 1966
PhD, Computer Science , University of London , 1972
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| Peterson, Penelope
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| Dean , School of Education and Social Policy |
| Eleanor R. Baldwin Professor , Education |
| Learning and teaching in schools and classrooms, particularly in literacy and mathematics; student and teacher learning in reform contexts; relations among educational research, policy and practice. |
BS, Psychology and Philosophy , Iowa State University , 1971
MA, Psychological Studies in Education , Stanford University , 1976
PhD, Psychological Studies in Education , Stanford University , 1976
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| Pugh, Carla
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| Assistant Professor , Feinberg School of Medicine |
Bachelor of Arts (BA) , University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Medicine (MD) , Howard University College of Medicine
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) , Stanford University School of Education
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| Rapp, David
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| Assistant Professor , Learning Sciences |
| Assistant Professor , Department of Psychology |
| Reading comprehension; narrative and expository experiences; updating prior knowledge; mental and situation models; translation of cognitive science research to educational settings; multimedia learning; visualizations as learning tools |
PhD, Experimental Psychology , State University of New York, Stony Brook , 2000
MA, General Psychology , New York University , 1996
BA, Psychology , State University of New York, Albany , 1994
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| Reininger, Michelle
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| Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
PhD, Social Sciences, Policy and Educational Practice , Stanford University , 2006
MA, Economics , Stanford University , 2004
MA, Leadership, Foundations and Policy , University of Virginia , 2001
BA, Biochemistry , University of Colorado , 1996
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| Reiser, Brian
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| Professor, Learning Sciences |
| The design of learning environments and curriculum materials for science that support authentic practices including explanation, argumentation, and designing investigations. His research examines the cognitive and social interaction aspects of scientific inquiry, principles for scaffolding practices in software and curriculum materials, teaching pratices, and curriculum design frameworks. |
BA, Psychology , University of Pennsylvania , 1977
MA, Psychology , New York University , 1979
PhD, Cognitive Science , Yale University , 1983
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| Riesbeck, Christopher
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| Associate Professor , Computer Science |
| Associate Professor , Education |
| Natural-language understanding, case-based reasoning, authorable learning-by-doing environments, critiquing tools for education. |
PhD , Stanford University , 1983
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| Rosenbaum, James
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| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Professor , Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Coordinator, Human Development and Social Policy Program |
| Poverty and housing; welfare reform; high school to work transition. |
BA, Culture and Behavior , Yale University , 1966
MA, Sociology , Harvard University , 1968
PhD, Sociology , Harvard University , 1973
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| Scott, Kimberly
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| Director, Master's Program Learning & Organizational Change |
| Assistant Professor, Master's Program in Learning and Organizational Change |
| Organizational effectiveness and change; Dysfunctional organizational behaviors; Job satisfaction, commitment, and performance; Organizational learning |
PhD, Business Administration, Organizational Behavior , The Ohio State University , 1995
MA, Business Administration , The Ohio State University , 1994
BA, Psychology , University of Cincinnati , 1991
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Sherin, Bruce
*ON LEAVE
9/ 2007 - 8/ 2008 *
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| Associate Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Conceptual change in science; programming environments for learning; external representations in science and mathematics. |
BA, Physics , Princeton University , 1985
MA, Physics , University of California, Berkeley , 1989
PhD, Science and Mathematics Education , University of California, Berkeley , 1996
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Sherin, Miriam
*ON LEAVE
9/ 2007 - 8/ 2008 *
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| Associate Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Mathematics teaching and learning; teacher cognition and teacher education. |
BA, Mathematics , University of Chicago , 1985
MA, Mathematics , University of California, San Diego , 1987
PhD, Science and Mathematics Education , University of California, Berkeley , 1996
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| Smith-Demuth, Sylvia
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| Director, Alternative Certification Program |
| Assistant Professor, SESP |
| Mathematics Achievement; Mathematics Teaching and Learning - cognition; Social contxt of Education; Opportunity to Learn |
Ph.D. , The University of Chicago, Curr. & Intruc. Mathematics Achieve. , 2005
M. Ed. , Loyola University C&I - Mathematics Prog. Design & Cognition , 1979
B. A. , Loyola University - Chicago , 1976
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| Spencer, Bruce
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| Professor , Statistics |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Statistics and public policy with a special focus on the design and evaluation of large-scale statistical data programs. |
PhD , Yale University , 1979
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| Spillane, James
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| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Principal Investigator, Distributed Leadership Study |
| Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change |
| Policy implementation; educational policy; organizational change; school leadership; relations between policy and teachers' and administrators' practice. |
BA, Education and Geography , St. Patrick's College, National University of Ireland , 1984
PhD, Curriculum, Teaching and Education Policy , Michigan State University , 1993
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| Taylor, Edd
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| Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Culture and mathematical thinking, informal learning/out-of-school practices, elementary and middle school mathematics instruction, early childhood education, teacher development, mathematical representation |
Ph.D. , University of California-Berkeley , 2005
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| Teplin, Linda
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| Owen L. Coon Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences , Clinical Psychology |
| Director of the Psycho-Legal Studies Program , Northwestern University Medical School |
| She is currently conducting : The Northwestern Juvenile Project:a longitudinal study of a sample of 1800 youth who previously were subjects in her baseline study of juvenile detainees. She and her staff are examining the changing alcohol, drug and mental health service needs of these high-risk youth, their use of services and behaviors that put them at increased risk for violence, drug use and HIV/AIDS. |
PhD , Northwestern University , 1975
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| Trautvetter, Lois
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| Assistant Professor, Education |
| Associate Director , Higher Education Administration and Policy Program |
| Faculty research that includes productivity, enhancing research and teaching, motivation, new and junior faculty issues, professional development for K-12 teachers to improve math and science teaching, gender issues, and females in science. |
BA, Chemistry , College of Wooster , 1982
MS, Polymer Chemistry , Carnegie Mellon University , 1986
PhD, Higher Education Administration , University of Michigan , 1991
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| Urzua, Sergio
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| Assistant Professor, Economics |
| Labor economic, microeconometrics, the role of cognitive and noncognitive abilities, and uncertainty as determinants of schooling decisions, labor market outcomes and social behavior. |
PhD in Economics , The University of Chicago , 2005
Master of Arts in Economics , The University of Chicago , 2003
Master of Arts in Economics , Universidad de Chile , 2001
B.A. in Economics , Universidad de Chile , 2000
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| Uttal, David
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| Associate Professor , Psychology |
| Associate Professor , Education |
| Mental representation, cognitive development, spatial cognition, early symbolization. |
PhD , University of Michigan , 1989
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| Waxman, Sandra
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| Professor , Psychology |
| Professor , Education |
| Language and conceptual development, early cognitive development, language and thought. |
PhD , University of Pennsylvania , 1985
MA , Johns Hopkins University , 1981
BS , University of Pennsylvania , 1976
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| Wilensky, Uri
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| Associate Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Associate Professor , Computer Science |
| Director , Center for Connected Learning & Computer-Based Modeling |
| Mathematics and science education in the context of computation, connected learning, constructionism, computer-based modeling, agent-based modeling and complex systems and education. |
BA, Mathematics and Philosophy , Brandeis University , 1977
MA, Mathematics and Philosophy , Brandeis University , 1977
PhD, Media Arts and Sciences , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1993
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Annual Summer Picnic for SESP Undergraduates
Wednesday, July 30
5 p.m., Garrett Patio
MS in Learning & Organizational Change Information Session
Wednesday, August 20
6:15–8:15 p.m., 132 Annenberg Hall
Master of Science in Education Information Session
Thursday, September 4
5:30–7 p.m., G22 Annenberg Hall
Wildcat Welcome for New Students
Wednesday, September 17
9 a.m. September 17–5 p.m. September 26, Annenberg Hall
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