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Dor Abrahamson - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
We present an innovative educational design for basic arithmetic that responds to students’ documented difficulties with adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers. The design utilizes MOVES, a technological architecture that combines floor- and screen-projected interactive interfaces. Students enact arithmetic operations, e.g., “3 - (-2)” by walking along a projected...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyDor Abrahamson - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
What do dancing and geometrical proof have in common? Turns out that in both of these disparate practices, we imagine lines to solve the common problem of perceptually engaging the environment to perform sensorimotor tasks. In dance, these lines have been called “attentional anchors.” In geometry, these lines are called...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyKatie Albright, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
E3C is building a public-impact alliance to strengthen early childhood systems in California. This URAP role will help E3C grow and connect three networks that help make systems change possible: (1) our alumni network, (2) internal interdisciplinary connections across UC Berkeley centers and programs, and (3) community and public...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: In 2016, voters in the state of California passed Assembly Bill (AB) 2016 which now requires an ethnic studies curriculum for grades 7-12. In a state where the Latinx student population is 3,284,788 or 56.1% of all students in the state, the new ethnic studies requirement invites a deeper...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: Mam is one of the Mayan languages whose ancestral community spans southern Mexico and western Guatemala. According to the Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VII de Vivienda (2018), there are 842, 252 Mam speakers living in Guatemala, with the largest communities in Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Quetzaltenango. This project...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims to understand the impact of current immigration policies on undocumented students' pursuit of higher education. Its goals are twofold: (1) to identify which immigration policies in the United States support higher education for undocumented students, and (2) to determine whether Higher Education Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Emerging...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesTravis Bristol - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: The Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity (CREEO), launched by Faculty Director Travis J. Bristol, at UC Berkeley School of Education, uses research to shape policy and practice in service of creating opportunities for students and adults historically at the margins to move closer to the center in...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesTravis Bristol - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: The Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity (CREEO), launched by Faculty Director Travis J. Bristol, at UC Berkeley School of Education, uses research to shape policy and practice in service of creating opportunities for students and adults historically at the margins to move closer to the center in...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesTravis Bristol - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: The Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity (CREEO), launched by Faculty Director Travis J. Bristol, at UC Berkeley School of Education, uses research to shape policy and practice in service of creating opportunities for students and adults historically at the margins to move closer to the center in...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMaggie Chan - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Universal social-emotional and behavioral (SEB) screening in school is a recognized solution to the mental health crisis among children and youth. However, the effectiveness of school-based SEB screening to address this public health concern is contingent on the fairness and validity of the assessments. Most SEB screeners are...
Bruce Fuller - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
California is spending billions to widen children's access to affordable preschool. But the growth of the governor's favored program appears to be killing-off existing pre-K centers. This project delves into this unanticipated dynamic and how to prevent greater erosion of preschool supply. The affordability of families (or lack...
Kris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project seeks undergraduates who are interested in learning about how to design learning environments that center equity, sustainability, and the radical transformation of systems of inequality that emerge in educational contexts. Specifically, undergraduates will engage readings, data, and collaborate with other undergraduates and graduate students to develop analyses for...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The anti-testing opt-out movement is a grassroots movement in which parents/guardians choose not to have their children participate in their school’s statewide testing. This research is a social media ethnography in which we critically examine the discourse used in posts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit to...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Writing Data Stories is a new project that seeks to reorganize how young people, especially linguistically and ethnoracially minoritized students, learn about and interact with data. A partnership including Bay Area schools, UC Berkeley, the Concord Consortium, North Carolina State University and the University of Texas at Austin, the project...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This research project originated from a longstanding relationship between the Pinoleville Pomo Nation from Northern California and an interdisciplinary research group from UC Berkeley. After conversations with the Tribal Council and researchers’ participation in tribal gatherings, issues around well-being, and education were identified as areas of common interest. One...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyÖzge Hacifazlioglu - Professor , Berkeley School of Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The paradox of progress in educational technology is that, while it aims to enhance student engagement and facilitate personalized learning paths, it often overlooks the diverse personal and sociocultural realities of students’ lives. The challenge lies in balancing the allure of technological solutions with the complex socio-cultural contexts that...
Özge Hacifazlioglu - Professor , Berkeley School of Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Location: On Campus
Over the past two decades research on leadership preparation has focused on exploring signature pedagogies to cater for the needs of leaders who serve students from diverse backgrounds. This led scholars to design and enact equity-centered culturally responsive approaches in alignment with their context (Painter and Clark, 2015; Hacıfazlıoğlu...
Kourtney Kawano - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project is a systematic review of AANHPI teachers and how they are discussed across peer-reviewed scholarship to date. The project's goals are to 1) map the field of research on AANHPI K–12 educators by identifying peer-reviewed sources published to date, 2) examine thematic trends in how...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDana Miller-Cotto - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This research is a mixed methods research project which aims to understand the predictors of executive function, a cognitive resource that controls our thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, and its performance in early schooling. In particular, we study the 1) role of how context may play a role in executive function...
Education, Cognition & PsychologyDana Miller-Cotto - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Executive function, or our ability to hold information in mind, ignore distractions, and shift between goals, predicts many important outcomes in life, including educational outcomes and social development. Research indicates that there are differences in how children display executive function skills across race/ethnicity and socio-economic status. There is...
Education, Cognition & PsychologyZachary Pardos - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The AskOski project (https://askoski.berkeley.edu/about) is a research and development effort led by Professor Pardos to transfer the latest in big data and machine learning research to the domain of course guidance in higher ed. The recommender system is live in-production at Berkeley, with partial deployments at several...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyZachary Pardos - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Adaptive tutoring systems are designed to provide students in K-12 and intro college courses a personalized homework experience. This means giving the right problem to a student at the right time based on a continuous assessment of their mastery of a skill. At Berkeley, the ALEKS system is used...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyEos Trinidad - Professor , Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This research focuses on how Generative AI, predictive algorithms, and school accountability (i.e., AAA) are transforming instruction, student engagement, and interpersonal relationships in higher education. Using in-depth longitudinal interviews of undergraduate and graduate students, the study attempts to understand not just how technologies affect humans, but also how technologies...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyEos Trinidad - Professor , Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Among the most interesting, controversial, and consequential decisions in education policies have emerged from social scientists in Chicago. The likes of John Dewey, Jane Adams, Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, Dan Lortie, James Coleman, Anthony Bryk, James Heckman, and Eve Ewing have contributed to important research that influenced democratic schooling, school...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyTina Trujillo - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
At the Berkeley Psychedelic Facilitation Program, three cohorts of advanced professionals (110 in total) learned how to safely, effectively, and equitably support clients, patients, and study participants in psychedelic-assisted healing and research settings. For the past three academic years, the Program welcomed cohorts of learners to participate in a...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMichelle Wilkerson - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
My research so far has focused on how teacher education programs incorporate justice and critical consciousness into K-12 computer science curricula. By investigating both their theoretical foundations and the lived experiences of CS pre-service teachers (PSTs), I have found significant variance in how these programs prepare educators to...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMark Wilson - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Critical Reasoning for College Readiness (CR4CR) is a project that seeks to develop psychometrically sound assessments that can be used by teachers in the classrooms at the high school and early college levels. Our goal is to develop, revise, and validate a suite of assessments, including unique assessment tasks and...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science