Research Areas
Explore the research areas that our faculty study in the Graduate School of Education.
Digital Media and Learning
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: My research primarily explores how teachers and students learn with and use multimodal literacies—especially digital video—as teaching and learning tools in classroom settings.
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
361A Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: (716) 645-4076
Email: ychang28@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Engineering Education; Cognition; Curriculum and Instruction; Diversity; Digital Media and Learning; Digital literacy; Cognitive Psychology; Cultural Competence; Educational technology; Educator Preparation; Higher Education; Learning Communities; STEM education; Learning Design; Learning Sciences; Problem Based Learning; Online and Distance Learning; Universal Design; Professional / Staff Development
Associate Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Learning and Instruction
253 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214
Phone: (716) 645-1127
Email: sunhakim@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Big Data; Access and Equity; Achievement; Assessment; Digital Innovations; Digital Media and Learning; Diversity; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; Design Experiments; Mathematics Education; Educational Policy; Immigrant Issues; Evaluation; Gamification; Large-Scale Assessment and Research; Race, Inequality, and Education; Psychometrics; Online and Distance Learning; Professional / Staff Development; Quantitative Research Methods; Research Design; Research Methods; Statistical Methods and Applications in Statistical Issues; School and District Reform
Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Engineering Education; Digital Media and Learning; Diversity; Literacy; Discourse analysis; Ethnography; Race, Inequality, and Education; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Qualitative Research Methods; Research Methods
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Adolescent Literacies; Literacy Studies; Placemaking; Spatial Justice; ELA Teacher Education; Ethnography; Critical Digital Media; Young Adult Literature; Youth Identities
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Access and Equity; Assessment; Cognition; Digital Innovations; Digital Media and Learning; Curriculum and Instruction; Diversity; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Global Issues; Science Education; Leadership; Learning Design; Race, Inequality, and Education; Problem Based Learning; Qualitative Research Methods; Urban Education
Professor
Learning and Instruction
Dean's Office
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Child and Adolescent Development; Cognition; Digital Innovations; Digital Media and Learning; Diversity; Curriculum and Instruction; Design Experiments; International Education; Literacy; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Global Issues; Immigrant Issues; Ethnography; Science Education; Learning Communities; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Qualitative Research Methods
Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Research Areas: Educational data science; data science education; computational research methods; mixed research methods; natural language processing; machine learning; artificial intelligence in education; design-based research; constructionism