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About Me
About Me
I completed my PhD in the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University working with Dr. Megan Saylor, focusing on young children's active role in language learning and memory for words. I also collaborated with Dr. Ashleigh Maxcey and Dr. Sarah Brown-Schmidt to study the effects of language on visual memory and forgetting in college students.
Before Vanderbilt, I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Neuroscience and Education from The Ohio State University.
Most recently, I conduct efficacy studies on EdTech products that align to ESSA and WWC certification standards, working with Dr. Rachel Schechter at LXD Research as a Lead Researcher. In this role, I work with a variety of educational products including literacy and math curricula, providing guidance and conducting external program evaluation for education companies.
My Research
My Research
My current work focuses on considering the evidence for a variety of K-12 education programs. This work looks at how to improve and iterate on curricula and interventions, as well as how to better incorporate key learning science principles into programs.
One line of my past research has focused on how children actively request language input and use questions to learn about novel word meanings. The focus of this work was to better characterize the word learning environment of the child based on the perspective of their own active engagement in the learning process, and how this might be leveraged to better support their retention of new information.
A second line of my past work has focused on college students' memory for and forgetting of things that they see. In this work I explored how individuals forget visual experiences as a result of other related visual experiences, as well as how this relates to language use and labeling.
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