Research Areas

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

Learning Sciences
Yunjeong Chang

Yunjeong Chang

Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

361A Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

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

Virginia J. Flood

Virginia J. Flood

Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction

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

Phone: (716) 645-2455

Email: vflood@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Learning Sciences, STEM Education, Classroom Discourse, Embodiment & Multimodality

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

Alexandra E. Schindel

Alexandra E. Schindel

Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

336 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-4067

Email: schindel@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Equity and Justice in STEM Education; Climate Change Education; Environmental Justice Education

Naomi Thompson

Naomi Thompson

Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction

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

Email: naomitho@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Learning Sciences; STEAM; Out-Of-School Learning; Connected Learning; Community Education; Video Analysis; Educational Equity

Yilang Zhao

Yilang Zhao

Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

251 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

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