Researchers at the iSchool involved in the learning sciences advance knowledge of the learning process and the design of innovative learning environments and technologies. 

Through an interdisciplinary connection between human-computer interaction, education, and library and information sciences, our work focuses on how technologies shape, and are being shaped, by learning and collaboration in a variety of real-world settings, such as classrooms, libraries and museums, peer and family contexts, and online communities. 

Researchers

• Mike Caulfield
• Katie Davis
• Lane Eagles
• Madeline Jalbert
• Amy Ko
• Jessica Luke
• Temi Odumosu
• Jean Salac
• Meena Selvakumar
• Jason Yip

Current Projects and Grants

Broadening Participation with CS Counternarratives

PI: Amy Ko
Funding: Google; $70,000
Dates: 2021-2022

Developing Valid and Equitable Tasks for Assessing Programming Proficiency: Linking Process Data to Assessment Characteristics

PI: Amy Ko
Funding: National Science Foundation; $877,449
Dates: 2021

Justice-Focused Secondary CS Teacher Education

PI: Amy Ko
Funding: National Science Foundation; $999,723
Dates: 2020-2023

Misinformation Escape Room

PIs: Chris Coward, Jin Ha Lee
Funding: CIP Innovation Fund; $24,737
Dates: 2020-2022

Standards Database

PI: Amy Ko
Funding: Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction; $13,002
Dates: 2020

Supporting Intergenerational Participatory Design Groups for Librarians and Youth for Design Thinking Around Digital Learning

PI: Jason Yip
Funding: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS); $353,070
Dates: 2018-2021

Children’s Museum Research Network

PI: Jessica Luke
Funding: Association of Children's Museums; $6,500
Dates: 2018-2019

Automatically Synthesizing Valid, Personalized, Formative Assessments of CS1 Concepts

PI: Amy Ko
Funding: National Science Foundation (NSF); $604,027
Dates: 2017-2021