Projects
Innovative teaching and learning
New teachers' induction support systems
New teachers face numerous decisions as they transition from teacher preparation into enacting practice (i.e., their induction period). They must reconcile conflicting messages about what and how to teach from the academic world of the preparation program and the practical world of their school of employment. Interviews with new teachers provide evidence of why new teachers seek supports for professional leaning to complement formal induction programs offered by schools and districts. Findings demonstrate how new teachers’ agency is stretched as they navigate the edu-verse, a complex learning ecology of supports accessed locally and through social media.
Representative Publications
Staudt Willet, K. B. (under review). Early career teachers’ expansion of induction support systems with social media.
Works-in-Progress
Social media’s impact on instruction: Beginning teachers’ self-directed professional learning
Computing education in K-12
Representative Publications
Caskurlu, S., Yadav, A., Santo, R., Dunbar, K. (2021). Professional development as a bridge between teacher competencies and computational thinking integration. In A. Yadav & U. Berthelsen (Eds). Computational thinking in compulsory education: A pedagogical perspective. Taylor and Francis.
Caskurlu, S., Yadav, A., Santo, R. (2021). Preparing Teachers for Computational thinking integration in K-12: A meta-aggregation. Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. (Virtual Event, USA)
Works-in-Progress
Computational thinking integration pathways in middle school Language Arts classrooms
Using conjecture mapping to develop teacher professional development to integrate computational thinking in Social Studies, Arts, and Language Arts classrooms
Educators as data scientists
Data science and learning analytics in education are useful, but we have limited information about the effectiveness or recommendations to guide the design of learning opportunities for professionals working in education. At the same time, we know that, in general, well-designed learning opportunities, even those brief in duration, can improve computational skills. Our purpose is to explore the design and effects of data science workshops for educational researchers.
Representative Publications
Rosenberg, J. M., & Staudt Willet, K. B. (2021). Balancing privacy and open science in the context of COVID-19: A response to Ifenthaler & Schumacher (2016). Educational Technology Research and Development, 69, 347–351. doi:10.1007/s11423-020-09860-8
Works-in-Progress
The design and effects of data science workshops for educational researchers
Who is an educational data scientist?
Educators' informal learning and invisible labor
Representative Publications
Staudt Willet, K. B., & He, D. (under review). Educators’ invisible labor: A systematic review
Krutka, D. G., Heath, M. K., & Staudt Willet, K. B. (2019). Foregrounding technoethics: Toward critical perspectives in technology and teacher education. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 27(4), 555-574. Retrieved from http://learntechlib.org/p/208235/
Works-in-Progress
Interrogating education research through an invisible labor lens
Online communities
Affinity spaces hosted in web forums and social media
Representative Publications
Na, H., & Staudt Willet, K. B. (2022). Affinity and anonymity benefitting early career teachers in the r/Teachers subreddit. Journal of Research on Technology in Education. doi:10.1080/15391523.2022.2150727
Staudt Willet, K. B., & Carpenter, J. P. (2021). A tale of two subreddits: Change and continuity in teaching-related online spaces. British Journal of Educational Technology, 52(2), 714-733. doi:10.1111/bjet.13051
Staudt Willet, K. B. (2019). Revisiting how and why educators use Twitter: Tweet types and purposes in #Edchat. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 51(3), 273-289. doi:10.1080/15391523.2019.1611507
Greenhow, C., Staudt Willet, K. B., & Galvin, S. (2021). Inquiring tweets want to know: #Edchat supports for #RemoteTeaching during COVID-19. British Journal of Educational Technology, 52(4), 1434-1454. doi:10.1111/bjet.13097
Works-in-Progress
Teachers without borders: Professional learning spanning social media, place, and time
U.K. and U.S. emergency learning networks on Twitter during COVID-19
Social, cognitive, and instructional factors that impact students' learning experiences
Representative Publications
Caskurlu, S., Richardson, J. C., Maeda, Y., & Kozan, K. (2021). Synthesis of qualitative evidence of factors influencing students’ online learning experiences through the Community of Inquiry. Computers and Education, 165, 104111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.104111
Caskurlu, S., Maeda, Y., Richardson, J. C., & Lv, J. (2020). Teaching presence in relation to students’ satisfaction and learning in the online environment: A narrative synthesis and meta-analysis. Computers and Education, 157, 103966
Caskurlu, S. (2018). Confirming the subdimensions of teaching, social, and cognitive presences: A construct validity study. The Internet and Higher Education, 39, 1-12.
Kozan, K. & Caskurlu, S. (2018). On the Nth presence for the Community of Inquiry Framework. Computers and Education, 122, 104-118.
Works-in-Progress
Cognitive presence in relation to students’ satisfaction and learning in the online environment: A meta-analysis
Applying cognitive science principles to online teaching and learning
Representative Publications
Richardson, J. C., Caskurlu, S., Castellanos-Reyes, D., Duan, S., Duha, M., Fiock, H., &, Long, Y. (2021). Instructors’ conceptualization and implementation of scaffolding in online higher education courses. Journal of Computing in Higher Education
Caskurlu, S., Richardson, J.C., Alamri, H. A., Chartier, K., Farmer, T. S., Janakiraman, S., Strait, M., Yang, M. (2021). Cognitive load and online course quality: Insights from instructional designers in a higher education context. British Journal of Educational Technology
Emerging methods
Systematic reviews in educational research
Representative Publications
Staudt Willet, K. B., & He, D. (under review). Educators’ invisible labor: A systematic review
Maeda, Y., Caskurlu, S., Kozan, K. Kenney, R., & Richardson, J.C. (2022). Moving qualitative synthesis research forward in education. Educational Research Review.
Maeda, Y., Caskurlu, S., Kozan, K., & Kenney, R. H. (2022). A critical appraisal tool development for reporting quality in qualitative syntheses: A worked example. Quality & Quantity.
Works-in-Progress
Cognitive presence in relation to students’ satisfaction and learning in the online environment: A meta-analysis
Learning analytics and social network analysis
Representative Publications
Staudt Willet, K. B., & Carpenter, J. P. (2021). A tale of two subreddits: Change and continuity in teaching-related online spaces. British Journal of Educational Technology, 52(2), 714-733. doi:10.1111/bjet.13051
Staudt Willet, K. B., & Carpenter, J. P. (2020). Teachers on Reddit? Exploring contributions and interactions in four teaching-related subreddits. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 52(2), 216-233. doi:10.1080/15391523.2020.1722978
tidytags R package for collecting Twitter data
R package
Staudt Willet, K. B., & Rosenberg, J. M. (2022). tidytags: Importing and analyzing Twitter data collected with Twitter Archiving Google Sheets. https://github.com/ropensci/tidytags