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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 & PsychologyPatricia 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: Current Term Now Closed 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: Check back for status 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 SciencesTolani Britton - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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 & PsychologyKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project seeks undergraduates that 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 & PsychologyDana 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
This project seeks to fill technical new researcher positions in the AskOski and OATutor research and development teams. The AskOski project (https://askoski.berkeley.edu/about) is a research and development effort lead by Professor Pardos to transfer the latest in big data and machine learning research to the domain of course...
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 given 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: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
HOW CAN WE IMPROVE EDUCATION through organizations outside schools? This research is a mixed-methods research project, understanding the role of “outside school” organizations (research, philanthropic, nonprofit orgs) on education systems and school improvement. This semester we will focus on "IMPROVING INSTRUCTIONAL IMPROVEMENT IN CALIFORNIA" by looking at how the...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyEos Trinidad - Professor , Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project aims to analyze over 10,000 public comments submitted to the California Department of Education regarding the K-12 Ethnic Studies Curriculum. We will use advanced natural language processing and machine learning techniques, specifically topic modeling, to uncover patterns and themes in this large text dataset. The comments themselves...
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 Certificate Program, advanced professionals are learning how to safely, effectively, and equitably support clients, patients, and study participants in psychedelic-assisted healing and research settings. In the 2024-25 academic year, the Program will welcome its third cohort of learners to participate in a 200-hour...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMichelle Wilkerson - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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 & TechnologiesMichelle Wilkerson - Professor, Education
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
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Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMark Wilson - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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