I seek to identify student’s potential to learn that may otherwise be underestimated.
Associate Professor
I am fascinated by the way humans learn. As a psychologist of creative education, I work to deepen the evidence available for scientifically understanding learning and creativity, while also supporting the needs of educational stakeholders to make informed, data-driven decisions.
To accomplish this, my collaborators and I have built new tests and measures, tracked nonlinear learning trajectories over the course of schooling, and modeled the cognitive processes involved in expert performance, among many other projects. As an overarching goal, I seek to identify student’s potential to learn that may otherwise be underestimated.
My work has been funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, the Naval Research Lab, and the National Academy of Education, and I have published approximately 80 peer-reviewed works in the scholarly literature. I am currently an Associate Editor at Thinking Skills and Creativity, and serve on the editorial boards of Journal of Educational Psychology, Review of Educational Research, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and Journal of Creative Behavior.
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