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CLARE BAEK, Ph.D.I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Digital Learning Lab, University of California Irvine, working with Dr. Mark Warschauer. I received my Ph.D. in Urban Education Policy with Educational Psychology concentration from the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education.
My research focuses on the design and implementation of digital learning environments that promote academic achievement, teacher development, and educational equity. In particular, I work on promoting STEM knowledge, skills, and dispositions among learners from historically underrepresented groups (including students with disabilities, students of color, and multilingual students) by building on their cultural and linguistic assets in digital learning environments through an interdisciplinary approach. In my main current project, "Deepening Computational Thinking for English Learners by Integrating Community-Based Environmental Literacy" (NSF funded), I am working with teachers in predominantly Latinx elementary schools in Southern California to co-design computer science curricula integrated with community-based environmental literacy and data literacy that meet the needs of their students. In this and other projects, I use a diverse set of methods from design-based implementation research, causal experiments, and educational data science to understand both student and teacher learning and development in digital learning environments. |