Research & Analysis
Featured
Building to Understand
A two-page research memo from the reading study: question, method, what held, what surprised, and limits. The finding is that engagement did not track prior interest as cleanly as the theory predicted, which is the more honest and more useful result.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers:
"Build in Progress": Towards Iteration, Ideation, and Critique. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2016.
Learning in the Making: Leveraging Technologies for Impact. FABLearn 2015, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, September 2015.
"Stonewall Jackson is a Unicorn" and "Dixieland DubStep": Creating Middle School Communities That Foster Multimodal Artistic Expressions Based on the American Civil War. Georgia Southern University Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative, Statesboro, GA, 2016.
White Papers and Working Papers
A cognitive clinical interview study of literary comprehension and project-based engagement in adolescent readers [WCER/NEH working paper]. University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Gender and tabletops: Gender, identity, expression, and group dynamics while playing board games [WCER/NEH working paper, GLS 2014]. University of Wisconsin–Madison.
“Our man, Hugh:” Narrative and distributed cognition via comedy and text [WCER/NEH working paper]. University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Interactive Analysis
Cognitive Interview - Branching Analysis
One instrument reading four very different young minds. It foregrounds interview and instrument design, with each reader's own words traced through the protocol and the points where their paths diverge flagged.
Gender and Tabletops, Branching Analysis
Qualitative coding across three cases, and the careful handling of a sensitive identity topic. Three women move through the same protocol, and the tool catches where they agree and where they part.
The Semi-Structured Interview, a Training Module
A role-play that teaches interviewing under pressure. You play the interviewer, every choice moves the room, and a trust meter and coaching show the cost of pushing too hard. This is the piece closest to what a simulation or learning team builds.
Media Format Lab, One Story Two Registers
The same history told as a dry textbook and as a comedy podcast, side by side, so you feel what changes when the medium changes. Content and register design, made hands-on.