My Current Research
COMPUTATIONAL LITERACY PROJECT
Defining Computational Literacy:
STEM/STATISTICS EDUCATION PROJECTS
S-SOMAS Survey:
S-STEM Survey:
PSYCHOLOGY PROJECTS
Eyewitness Memory:
Eyewitness Identification:
Defining Computational Literacy:
- Developed a codebook for Computational Literacy in physics and mathematics/statistics using qualitative data.
- Conducted student interviews and analyzed student artifacts to gain deeper insights into student thinking and identify components of Computational Literacy.
- Expanded on a previous framework for computational literacy by making additional connections between relationships of components in the current Computational Literacy framework.
- Determined functionality of student interviews and artifacts in measuring computational literacy in students.
STEM/STATISTICS EDUCATION PROJECTS
S-SOMAS Survey:
- Conducted data analysis on over 1500 students in R using linear regression methods to quantify the importance of various attitudes on students’ perception of statistics.
- Assisted in development of an educational survey in order to measure undergraduate students’ perceptions of statistics and educational inequities in attitudes.
- Performed Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Item-Response Theory (IRT) to compare the new factor model with measurement’s theoretical framework in order to determine necessary changes to survey items.
- Developed reproducible code and documents for more efficient psychometric analyses on future instruments.
S-STEM Survey:
- Performed Confirmatory Factor Analysis on over 1000 responses in R in order to test validity and reliability of a STEM attitudes measurement.
- Validated a developed instrument used to measure students’ (3rd - 5th grade) attitudes towards STEM and 21st century skills in order to determine potential differences in demographics that increase education inequity.
- Created visualizations of CFAs and survey responses in order to present findings at a conference.
PSYCHOLOGY PROJECTS
Eyewitness Memory:
- Determined the association between an individual's working memory and their ability to recall details of a crime.
- Conducted qualitative coding in order to perform both qualitative and quantitative analysis in SPSS.
- Wrote a full proposal for IRB approval (approved).
Eyewitness Identification:
- Investigated the association between the experiments’ gender on forced response in eyewitnesses and response intimidation.
- Compared eyewitness identification accuracy from a lineup and determined potential differences in accuracy between male and female researchers.