Courses I will be teaching at UW–Madison:
Role: Instructor
Semester: Fall 2026 (incoming)
This course examines the practice of data science in educational contexts, examining how we draw meaning and make decisions on the basis of data related to students, teaching, formal education systems, and informal learning environments. The focus is on developing fundamental skills for actively working with and interpreting educational data, including: transforming, combining, and effectively summarizing data; creating meaningful graphical representations of data; creating formal models based on data; and communicating findings from data analysis. You will develop these skills by writing R code to create reproducible data analysis reports. After introducing foundationsal data science skills, we will work throçugh a series of real-world case studies that provide an opportunity to practice, expand, and further refine the skills and to make connections to subject-matter knowledge in the context of education.
Courses I taught at Notre Dame:
Role: Co-Instructor
Semester: Fall 2024
Course Description: The primary objective of QSG is to provide students the opportunity to develop their critical thinking skills, presentation abilities, and knowledge of the most recent developments in quantitative and statistical methods and techniques. The seminar format of this course is designed to stimulate and foster the intellectual environment of the program and department as well as to engage students at all levels. This is one of the required courses for non-quantitative students to get the Advanced Quantitative Social Science Minor.
Role: Teaching Assistant & Lab Instructor
Semesters: Spring 2022 and Fall 2023
Course Description (Fall 2023): Think of a psychological question you are curious about exploring. For example: What do changes in cognition look like over a lifetime? How does the prenatal environment influence predisposition to psychological disorders in later life? Why do children learn more effectively following reinforcement versus punishment? These questions model examples of the three goals of scientific research: to describe, to predict, and to explain. In this foundational course (a continuation of PSY 30100 Statistics for Behavioral Sciences), you will study the numerous methods used by a behavioral scientist with an emphasis on the design and execution of psychological research. You will also foster your scientific communication skills through a written research proposal and an oral presentation of this proposal. In essence, you will learn how to become a behavioral scientist, equipped with the necessary experimental design skills to continue your exploration of the behavioral sciences.