Research Proposal:
Collaborative inquiry and critical thinking in a history classroom
I created this research proposal as an assignment in the Foundations of LDT course. This work introduced me to the concept of "historical thinking" and led me to dig deeper into concepts of personal epistemology, inquiry learning, and collaboration. The scholar and theories section of this paper was particularly helpful in developing my thinking. I was also introduced to UGA's IRB proposal process.
Assessment Project:
Assessing Perspective-taking
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This paper is the summary of a group project completed for the Assessing Real-World Problem-Solving course. We created an activity to assess perspective-taking and implemented it in an EDIT 2000 course for formative assessment. This paper includes our results and next steps.
Research Paper:
Improving Students’ Historical Thinking: Understanding, Evaluating, and Using Evidence
I wrote this paper as my final product in the Psychology of Learning and Instruction course. This was my second course in cognitive psychology with Dr. Fiorella. Learning how we process and organize information helps us match learning goals to instructional methods. For this paper, I looked at what is required from students engaging with historical evidence, why they have difficulty, and potential instructional strategies to address these difficulties.
Samples of Research Work
Course work
Independent study
AECT Conference Proposal:
The Socially Responsible Problem Solving (SRPS) Model: Implications of Historical Thinking on Problem Solving
Writing the AECT conference proposal allowed me to explore historical thinking as a problem solving model and think about how it could be applied in contexts outside of the social sciences. I also thought about the concept of "socially-responsible" and looked at how it has been defined in the design-thinking literature and design movements. The focus of my future research will be developing this model and applying it to real-world problems in STEM domains. I am particularly interested in engineering and medicine as potential sites for this research.