Dede Addy, Ph.D. '14I was drawn to the UNC School of Education by its strong faculty, whose expertise spans a range of research areas, many of which align with my own interests. The program here also stands out for its interdisciplinary nature and the flexibility it offers students in designing highly individualized studies.
Our Faculty are Developing Innovations for Classrooms
New findings are pointing to technology that can help English language learners in science classrooms.
A team led by faculty member Kihyun “Kelly” Ryoo is one of six from across the Carolina campus to win a UNC Idea Grant, which will be used to support development of a proposal to create new tools intended to help linguistically diverse 8th-grade students, including English language learners, improve their understanding of chemistry. Ryoo…
A project led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive $2 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to pioneer new ways to help undergraduate college students who are struggling in mathematics and science courses. The project, which involves researchers from Carolina’s School of Education and College of…
UNC-Chapel Hill researchers will seek to develop new ways to measure and assess self-regulated learning in a project funded by a new grant from the National Science Foundation. The $708,000 grant builds on NSF-funded work by a team of Carolina researchers that has been studying university students’ interactions with digital instructional resources used in face-to-face…