CEDAR LAB

News

Summer 2023

• Paul Pacheco is on his way to teach high school Biology and was featured in the local news! We'll miss you, Paul!

• Aaron Haim has published and presented his research on reproducibility and open science in the learning sciences at AIED, Learning @ Scale (see also here), LAK, as well as EDM. 

• REU students Emily Rostkowski (UConn) and Nellie Rushton (Stanford) have joined the lab to conduct research on statistics learning! Welcome Emily and Nellie!

• Stacy gave a talk to Girls Who Talk Math @ WPI about the importance of break periods for mathematical cognition.

• A 2023 paper Stacy collaborated on in the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education is now one of their most-read articles of all time.

April 2023

• Andrew and Paul successfully completed their master's degrees. Congratulations!

• Mikayla Prue has joined the lab as an undergraduate RA to work on a registered report. Welcome, Mikayla!

March 2023

• A paper Stacy collaborated on about math anxiety was used in the National Council of Teachers in Mathematics' new stance on Procedural Flexibility in Math 

• Paul received an honorable mention for the Ford Fellowship, congratulations!

• Aaron and Stacy hosted a workshop for the Center for Open Science's educational unconference on licensing and copyright (see the video here)

• Aaron and Stacy hosted an open science workshop at Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) Conference

• Kirk, Andrew, Ashish, and Aaron published and presented three papers at LAK!

• Aaron's paper was nominated for best paper at LAK, congratulations!

December 2023

• A paper Stacy collaborated on in Educational Psychologist is now one of the most-read articles of the journal.

October 2022 

• A new article was published in the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice

September 2022 

• A new article was published in Anxiety, Stress, & Coping

• Congratulations to Paul Pacheco for being awarded an Honorary Undergraduate Scholar (HUS) Award awarded by the New England Psychological Association!

July 2022

• Stacy is a part of a research team that was awarded an IES grant to replicate interleaving findings in mathematics

June 2022

• Chayanne's research with Dr. Craig Wills was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education

• A new article was published in the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education

• WPI has awarded the CEDAR lab and collaborators with a diversity seed grant to study experiences of rest among transfer students, international students, and first-generation college students at WPI.

April 2022-- Congratulations to Paul for an Honorable Mention for the 2022 WPI Provost Award for his honor's thesis on math anxiety and timed exams!

April 2022-- Congratulations to Vy Ngo for a successful Master's Thesis presentation!

October 2021-- Stacy was awarded a Women's Young Investigator Fellowship presented by the Women's Impact Network at WPI.

September 2021-- Stacy was on a critical conversations panel on Science & Creativity for WPI’s Arts and Sciences week, talking about the role of creativity in arts and science. Click here for a recap of the event!

August 2021 -- Alena Egorova, Andrew McReynolds, and Kirk Vanacore join the CEDAR lab as incoming Ph.D. graduate students! Welcome!

August 2021 -- Stacy is a part of a research team that was collectively awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study common errors students make on short-answer math questions. (PI - Andrew Lan, MIT, $374,775; Co-PI Neil Heffernan, Co-PI Stacy Shaw, WPI, $239,307; PI- Cristina Heffernan, ASSITments Foundation, $235,639).

June 2021 -- Chayanne joins the CEDAR Lab as Lab Manager, welcome!

April 2021 -- Stacy participated in the faculty lightning talks for WPI’s Arts and Science Week, a recording can be found here.