Lecturer, Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning (CSTL)
603 E. Daniel
(mail code 716)
Champaign (UIUC Campus Mail), IL 61820
My passion is to better our understanding of how humans comprehend text to better inform advances in educational technologies to improve reading comprehension on a global scale. Since finishing my PhD, I work full-time as Director of Research at Cascade Reading and continue to serve as an adjunct lecturer for EPSY 401. My academic research centers around using eye-tracking and behavioral tasks to investigate the mechanisms that underly the comprehension of grammatical structures and discourse in various texts. I use advanced inferential modeling and machine learning techniques to make use of the multivariate data reading studies provide us, and I'm very keen on communciating scientific findings to a broad audience.
EPSY 401: Child Language and Education (EPSY 401) Provides an overview of current knowledge about children's acquisition of linguistic and communicative competence together with a consideration of the educational import of this developmental process.