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Dor Abrahamson - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 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 & PsychologyPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Open 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 & HumanitiesTravis Bristol - Professor, Education
Status: Open 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: Open 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: Open 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: Open 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 SciencesTolani Britton - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Given the limited work opportunities available to persons who have been incarcerated, a college degree could serve as one means to improve both educational and job market outcomes. A number of states have expanded access to college classes for incarcerated persons. In 2014, California passed SB 1391, a law that...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMaggie Chan - Professor, Education
Status: Open 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...
Maggie Chan - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Social-emotional learning (SEL) frameworks guide policy, assessment, and intervention in education systems, yet the field faces a major challenge. That is, dominant frameworks reflect Eurocentric, middle-class cultural norms, and competencies are derived from expert-driven processes rather than from engagement with the communities whose children are most affected...
Kourtney Kawano - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project is a systematic review of AA&PI 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 AA&PI K–12 educators by identifying peer-reviewed sources published to date, 2) examine thematic trends...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesKourtney Kawano - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
The purpose of this project is to uplift the unique contributions of AA&PI teacher-content creators in relation to perceptions about AA&PI communities and broader educational discourse on equity-focused and race-conscious policies and programs. We aim to identify thematic trends in AA&PI teacher-content creators...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesKourtney Kawano - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project explores California-based Pacific Islander (PI) college students' experiences with identity formation, familial socialization, intergroup relations, and education for social change. Through qualitative research methods, this project aims to uplift collective sensemaking about the decisions that PI families make to perpetuate their linguistic and cultural ways of knowing...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesKourtney Kawano - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Although California school districts have been successful in defending students and teachers’ legal right to engage with complex issues and ideas in Ethnic Studies courses, these attacks have implications for educators’ capacities to teach without fear of surveillance and retaliation and potential consequences for Berkeley’s vision of a community in...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDana Miller-Cotto - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Community Practice Partnerships project seeks to build sustained relationships between the research team and organizations serving children and families throughout the Bay Area, including preschools, children’s museums, community organizations, and other informal learning spaces. These partnerships will create opportunities for researchers and community practitioners to learn from one another...
Education, Cognition & PsychologyDana Miller-Cotto - Professor, Education
Status: Open 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 & PsychologyDana Miller-Cotto - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
This online study examines how children ages 8–10 use external supports to manage the demands of learning and problem solving. “Cognitive offloading” occurs when people reduce demands on memory or attention by using tools or actions outside the mind—for example, writing information down, drawing a representation, using fingers...
Education, Cognition & PsychologyZachary Pardos - Professor, Education
Status: Open 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: Open 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: Open Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This research will help develop a national database of K-12 state mid-level education agencies across the US. It aims to inform new research on the role of mid-level agencies in supporting education across different states. This will advance our thinking on how education can improve in a...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyEos Trinidad - Professor , Education
Status: Open 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 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 choice, human capital development...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyEos Trinidad - Professor , Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project aims to create a systematic accounting of sociological studies of education, and create a framework to understand how different studies are connected with each other. The team will create an archive of publications, scholars, and awards connected to sociology of education during a 23-year period with the...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMichelle Wilkerson - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
While computer science (CS) has historically been framed as technical and value-free, emerging scholarship in the Learning Sciences and Science & Technology Studies (STS) highlights how computing intersects deeply with power, politics, and social equity. In response, frameworks have emerged to encourage educators and students to interrogate the societal and...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMark Wilson - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The UC Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Center (https://bearcenter.berkeley.edu/) is looking for several students interested in developing and validating assessments in STEM and literacy fields. We are exploring ways to leverage multi-agent AI systems across the full cycle of assessment development and deployment (i.e., construct definition, item design, scoring...
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