Professor’s work touches classrooms across country
February 5, 2021
Logan Fiorella focuses on the science of learning to support quality instruction
Logan Fiorella’s research sits at the confluence of two global trends: rising demand for STEM education and the growing use of multimedia to support high-quality instruction.
Fiorella, an assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Georgia Mary Frances Early College of Education, has devoted his career to the science of learning. Insights from his research are being implemented in a range of classrooms, from K-12 to higher education.
“We’re trying to identify practical strategies and guidelines that students and instructors can use to improve learning,” said Fiorella.
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Commentary: STAAR outcome obvious; test a waste of $90M
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STAAR testing should halt for the school year. It’s expensive and education has been uneven for Texas students.Times Union /Times Union
The Texas Education Agency is submitting a waiver request to the U.S. Department of Education seeking to pause the A-F school-grading process this year.
This is good. Continuing the charade of grading schools on the social-class makeup of their students has always been unethical. That is because “who” attends the schools is the overwhelming determinant of the standardized test scores on which school grades are based. Rating schools “A” or “D, “good” or “bad,” without visiting schools and evaluating staff and the quality of instruction that kids get is unintelligible if not simply mean.
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ESU announces Drexel professor as Black History Month keynote speaker
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His address, “We Goin Ultra Black: Overcoming Internalized Racism & Developing a Positive Cultural Identity”, will be delivered via Zoom, on at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17. The event is free and open to the public.
Hall is an assistant professor of urban teacher education. His teaching and research interests include urban teacher education and development, social justice-oriented approaches to secondary English education, hip-hop pedagogy, anti-Black educational policy and practice, and critical qualitative research. Hall has facilitated numerous professional and personal development workshops on anti-racist practice in public and independent K-12 schools, colleges/universities, and community-based organizations across the Delaware Valley.