I am an Assistant Professor of Teaching at UC Irvine’s School of Education and the Co-Director for the IES funded program, Career Pathways for Researching Learning and Education, Analytics and Data Science (CP-LEADS).
As an Educational Psychologist, I utilize cognitive theories to understand and improve student learning. My primary line of work is in the field of learning analytics, which uses the data collected from online platforms to understand learning behaviors. Using this data, I observe students’ self-regulated learning and correlate these behaviors to learning outcomes. I also apply social learning theories to understand how students learn from their peers in online platforms (e.g., Flip, YouTube, Perusall). Finally, I apply dual-process theories of cognition to understand how persuasive texts influence student critical thinking strategies.
I received my master’s degree in Developmental Psychology and my Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Michigan. I was also a fellow at the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course while at Michigan.
I received my B.A. in psychology from California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and I owe much of where I am today to the great faculty there and to the NIMH-COR training program that helped support my development as a scholar.