Research
Here’s what I’ve been up to at the University of Minnesota!
Lab Member | Lab Advancing Statistics Education Research (LASER)
- Collaborative research with statistics education researchers at the University of Minnesota
- Curriculum development: Algorithmic Modeling
- Building on past research teaching CART algorithms, LASER is currently designing activities focusing on the kNN algorithm
- I’ve been helping to develop educational materials to teach classification methods and introductory machine learning techniques
- Putting my love of powerpoint templates to good use, I was responsible for formatting and styling templates to design high-quality presentations
- See our workshop materials from MCTM ’24!
- Curriculum development: Data Visualization
- I worked to help reorganize and update the course activities for EPSY 1261: Understanding Data Stories through Visualization & Computing
- This is partially in preparation for my Ph.D. milestone/dissertation work on the comprehension and creation of data visualization
- I worked to help reorganize and update the course activities for EPSY 1261: Understanding Data Stories through Visualization & Computing
- Service to the field
- We presented at MCTM ’25 this year to give math instructors ways to incorporate:
- statistics and data science activities in their classrooms to meet upcoming Minnesota state standards
- statistics education research in their teaching
- We presented at MCTM ’25 this year to give math instructors ways to incorporate:
Graduate Assistant | College in the Schools (CIS): Statistics Cohort
Faculty Coordinator
- I help plan and implement day-long professional development training sessions three times each year for the statistics cohort of CIS high school teachers
- Professional development topics include: data wrangling pseudo code, item writing, inter-rater reliability, and item analysis
- Part of this position means I get to observe instructors to provide feedback on classroom engagement strategies two to three times each semester
- See our workshop materials from MCTM ’24 to learn more about the course!
Research Assistant | DataX: Exploring Justice-Oriented Data Science with Secondary School Students
Data Analysis
- I’ve been getting to explore qualitative coding of video through this NSF-funded project
- Video is obtained from a secondary school social studies class learning data science topics
- As part of this position, I am responsible for preparing reports and presentations on co-designed curriculum and research findings
- Check out our workshop materials from DSE K-12 ’25 for more information on the curriculum
- I’ll also be presenting an 8 page paper on this work at ISLS ’25 in Helsinki this summer
Research Assistant | Data Science-Wrangle Analyze Visualize (DSC-WAV): Code Review
Evaluation Team
- I created educational resources for data science students learning how to review code (code review checklist, style guide considerations, etc.) and surveyed students on their code review processes
- Learn more about my MA Thesis work here!
Other Projects
Attitudes Towards Statistics
- My first project as an MA student was looking into student attitudes towards statistics through a qualitative lens
- I might return to this at a later date once I have a chance to collect fresh data and implement the lessons I’ve learned since my first semester of grad school
- Check out this page to see my first research poster