Research Areas

Explore the research areas that our faculty study in the Graduate School of Education.

Educational technology
Sam Abramovich

Sam Abramovich

Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Information Science

335 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: 716-645-3174

Email: samuelab@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Big Data; Information Science; Achievement; Assessment; Cognition; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; Design Experiments; Educational technology; Human Computer Interaction; Evaluation; Gamification; Large-Scale Assessment and Research; Learning Design; Measurements; Online and Distance Learning; Standards; Qualitative Research Methods; Quantitative Research Methods; Research Design; Research Methods

David L. Bruce

David L. Bruce

Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

Phone: (716) 645-2455

Email: dlbruce@buffalo.edu

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.

Yunjeong Chang

Yunjeong Chang

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

Christopher Hoadley

Christopher Hoadley

Professor
Learning and Instruction

350 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: 7166457787

Email: tophe@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Computer Science Education; Information Science; Information behavior; Design Experiments; Educational technology; Human Computer Interaction; Learning Sciences

Tim Monreal

Tim Monreal

Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction

341 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: 7166455042

Email: tpmonrea@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Latinx/Chicanx K-12 Education and Teacher Preparation; Latinx Education and Immigration in the U.S. South; Teacher Identity and Subjectivity; Social Studies Education; Critical Geography; (post)Qualitative Methods

Chris Proctor

Chris Proctor

Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction

361B Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-2455

Email: chrisp@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Computational literacies; K12 computing education; computational social science; design-based research; human-computer interaction

Yilang Zhao

Yilang Zhao

Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

251 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: 7166451130

Email: yilangzh@buffalo.edu

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