Grants & Awards

Grants

Principal Investigator, Debugging Block-Based Programs: An Eye-Tracking Examination of Successful and Unsuccessful Attempts, University Research Council Summer Research Appointment Award, Kent State University, 2024, $10,000
Principal Investigator, Effects of Pencasts in Online Videos, University Research Council Summer Research Appointment Award, Kent State University, 2022, $10,000
Principal Investigator, Learning and Mind Wandering in Online Video: Effects of Video Segmentation and the Role of Self-Regulatory Processes, Kent State University EHHS SEED award, 2021-2023, $5,000
Principal Investigator, Where Is Your Mind At? Mind Wandering in Online Video, University Research Council Summer Research Appointment Award, Kent State University, 2020, $10,000
Principal Investigator, Project EDGE: Effective Designs of Games in Education, Kent State University EHHS SEED award, 2019-2021, $5,000
Principal Investigator, Examining the Influences of Instructor Presence in Instructional Videos, Study Edge, 2018, $600

Awards

University of Florida Alumni Graduate Fellowships Fund ($100,000); 2014 - 2018
University of Florida College of Education Outstanding Graduate Research Award (One at college level); 2018
University of Florida College of Education Annual Research Symposium Best Poster Paper Award (One at college level); 2018
American Educational Research Association (AERA) SIG-Instructional Technology Best Paper Award; 2018
National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored U.S. delegation to International Science of Learning Conference, Brisbane, Australia; 2017
Association for Educational Communications & Technology Three Minute Thesis Competition People’s Choice Award; 2017
Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies Early Career Symposium Participant at the 2017 Association for Educational Communications, and Technology (AECT) Research and Theory Division; 2017
Florida Statewide Graduate Research Symposium Outstanding Poster Presentation (1st place in education category); 2017
University of Florida Graduate Student Research Day Best Poster Award (1st place in non-STEM category, out of 200 posters university wide); 2017
Florida Society of the Social Sciences 12th Annual Conference Outstanding Paper (1st place); 2017
University of Florida College of Education 2nd Annual Research Symposium Outstanding Research Paper (One at college level), 2017
University of Florida Dr. Jess Patten and Sharon Van Dame Elliott Scholarship Endowment (One at college level); 2017
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division C Graduate Student Seminar participant (twenty students nationwide); 2017
American Educational Research Association (AERA) SIG Design and Technology Early Career Mentoring Program participant (eight students nationwide); 2017
University of Florida Alec Courtelis Award (three at university level); 2016
University of Florida Outstanding Achievement Award (five at college level); 2016
University of Florida College of Education 1st Annual Research Symposium Best Paper Award (Two at college level); 2016

Licenses & Certificates

Virginia Professional Teaching License for Chinese PreK-12
Virginia Professional Teaching License for Math 6-12
Minnesota Teaching License for Elementary Education K-6
SPSS and SamplePower 3 Series