Hatfield, David

While at UW’s Learning Sciences program, I was focused on designing interactions between learners, software, mentors, and peers to provide opportunities for the developmental and measurement of professional ways of thinking — complexes of understanding, justifications, and identity often overlooked in traditional testing. This has helped me immensely in by current role as Director of Assessment for Kidaptive, an early learning educational analysis company. At Kidaptive we are building an adaptive, personalized, learning environment that brings together detailed analysis of what learners are engaged in during digital and non-digital challenges with learner competency models, based on individual and group performances, to provide young learners with optimal levels of challenge in digital games and activities with parents. The experience of being immersed in the theoretical, technical, and measurement aspects of learning and assessment during my time int he Learning Sciences program was invaluable in helping prepare me for a role working with software engineers, business developers, and psychometricians to build a learning platform that helps kids and their grownups around the world.

Swiecki, Zach

My research focuses on the design of innovate assessment, measurement, and visualization techniques for collaborative learning and team performance.

Siebert-Evenstone, Amanda

I am interested in how sense of place in an online learning environment may affect cognitive, affective, and behavioral changes in students.

Puntambekar, Sadhana

Our mission is to design and implement innovative, technology-rich learning environments to foster deep and engaging science and engineering knowledge for middle school students.

Research Interests

Scaffolding; Distributed Scaffolding, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning; Learning from physical and virtual models; Design-Based Research