Learning Sciences and Technology Ph.D.
I am working with a very talented group of doctoral students. My doctoral students and I present nationally and internationally each year and before they finish, each of them should have published at least two or three refereed articles in highly respected national or international journals.
Below I talk a bit about what they are doing and link you to documents where appropriate.
Violet Kulo. Violet is investigating how geographical information systems can be used to teach Web-based scientific inquiry in middle schools. She is a full-time doctoral student from Kenya. Violet has finished her data collection and is now analyzing her data. Already she has discovered some really interesting patterns in implementation fidelity for new technology adoptions. We're looking forward now to an exciting fall defense.
Andrew Levin. Andy has just completed his second year of doctoral study as a part-time doctoral student. He's beginning work on his qualifying project. We're looking at investigating how a Website might be designed to facilitate differing pedagogical approaches. We are looking at American history content and thinking his Qualifying project will be the needs assessment and market analysis he'll need to design that Website.
Paige Hawkins Mattke. Paige has completed her instructional technology master's degree and was admitted last spring to the doctoral program. Paige has been my grad assistant for the past two years. She and I are finishing up our second study on informal education sites and the Web. Last year we researched public history sites (and published our results in Educational Technology this January). This year we are researching science museums and expect to write up our results for publication this summer. Paige had her first child last summer and that anthropological participant/observer research project has consumed much of her time since. She is interested in Japanese instruction, having lived in Japan, but we have not yet finalized her research agenda.
Yuanyuan Zhang. "Y2" was admitted to our doctoral program last fall. She came to us from Clemson University. Y2 and I have begun this spring to explore possible research topics and expect to present her Qualifying Project prospectus to her committee sometime in the near future.
The application deadline for applying to the LST doctoral program is February 1.
To learn more, visit: http://www.lehigh.edu/education/tlt/doctor.html