Areas of Interest

• Discovering what teaching methods in math will best promote conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.
• Learning how children transfer knowledge within and between domains and how they develop problem-solving skills.
• Bridging the gap between research and the classroom by making classroom-friendly educational research available to educators in schools.

Keyword Interests.

• Conceptual Understanding and Procedural Fluency
• Transfer and Problem-Solving
• Classroom-Friendly Educational Research

Current Research Topic/Field-Based Project

Project:
Examine how the use of contrasting solutions in middle-school mathematics classes affects procedural knowledge, procedural flexibility, and conceptual understanding.

Former Experience

• Research Assistant, Center for Educational Outcomes, Dartmouth College.
• Research Assistant, Brain Imaging Lab, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
• Programs Intern, National Center for Learning Disabilities.
• Academic Intern in Psychology, Dartmouth College.

Education

• B.A.(2007): Psychological and Brain Sciences with an Education Minor, Dartmouth College