Satabdi Basu, Principal Investigator, SRI Education
Satabdi Basu, PhD, is the Principal Investigator of ASSIST. She is a Principal CS Education Researcher at SRI’s Center for Education Research and Innovation. Dr. Basu’s research in computer science education spans the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of curricula, learning environments, assessments, and teacher professional development that foster computational competencies for K-12 students and teachers. Dr. Basu leads all the design and development work of the ASSIST teacher resources and teacher PD series, as well as the research and dissemination activities.

Carol Tate, Senior Education Researcher, SRI Education
Carol Tate, PhD, is a Senior Education Researcher at SRI specializing in design, research, and evaluation projects with a focus on improving teaching quality in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Dr. Tate’s primary research interest relates to how curriculum design and contextual factors interact to affect teaching quality and student learning. On the ASSIST project, she contributes to the development of instructionally supportive tools and to the professional development for participating teachers.

Hui Yang, STEM & CS Education Researcher, SRI Education
Hui Yang, PhD, is a STEM & CS Education Researcher at SRI specializing in learning sciences with a focus on STEM & CS education. Dr. Yang’s research explores how teachers learn to integrate technological and programming tools with content and pedagogy to support student learning, and how student-centered learning environments support students’ collaborations in STEM & CS learning. On the ASSIST project, Dr. Yang focuses on developing formative assessment items, facilitating professional development for middle school CS teachers, and analyzing student and teacher data to gather insights into the efficacy of the developed instructional resources.

Arif Rachmatullah, STEM Education Researcher, SRI Education
Arif Rachmatullah, PhD, is a STEM Education Researcher at SRI working at the intersection of science education and computer science/computational thinking (CS/CT) education at the K-12 levels, as well as survey and assessment development and validation in STEM education. On the ASSIST project, Dr. Rachmatullah focuses on developing formative assessment items, facilitating professional development for middle school CS teachers, and analyzing student and teacher data to gather insights into the efficacy of the developed instructional resources.

Cristian Jimenez, Project Manager, SRI Education
Cristian Jimenez is a Project Manager at SRI. On ASSIST, Mr. Jimenez helps with project management, facilitating teacher communication, and coordinating research activities.

 

Steven McGee, PhD, President, The Learning Partnership
As one of the first learning scientists in the nation, he studies how to support learning from an individual cognitive perspective as well as from the perspective of systems and social contexts. On ASSIST, Dr. McGee and The Learning Partnership team collaborated with SRI by helping with teacher recruitment and coordination.

Katya Winkler, Education Research Coordinator, The Learning Partnership
Katya Winkler is an Education Research Coordinator at The Learning Partnership, supporting the implementation of CS in the Milwaukee Public Schools. She also works part-time for Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, focusing on promoting CS among teachers and students statewide. Along with Dr. McGee, Ms. Winkler supported teacher recruitment and coordination in Milwaukee for the ASSIST project.

Former Team Members

Daisy Wise Rutstein, PhD, former ASSIST Co-PI
Daisy Wise Rutstein, PhD, was Co-PI on the ASSIST project and led the formative assessment development work. Currently, she is a Senior Associate at edCount, LLC. Her work focuses on the application of evidence-centered design (ECD) to develop classroom and large-scale assessments, particularly in the area of hard-to-measure constructs. Her recent work has been focused on the areas of science and CS with a focus on computational thinking.

Eliese Rulifson, former Education Research Associate at SRI Education
Eliese Rulifson was an Education Research Associate at SRI with a focus on teacher quality and diversity, education finance, and STEM education. On ASSIST, Ms. Rulifson liaised with teachers and coordinated project activities in her role as the project manager.

Christopher Ortiz, former Research Assistant at SRI Education
Christopher Ortiz is a Database Administrator at SRI and focuses on the intersection between technology and early childhood development. On ASSIST, Mr. Ortiz helps develop standards-aligned teacher materials in different programming languages and program teacher and student surveys in Qualtrics.

ASSIST Reviewers and Advisors

Internal Reviewer (SRI)

• Nonye Alozie – Principal Education Researcher at SRI

External Advisors

• Andrea Beesley – Former Senior Principal Education Researcher and Director of STEM & CS at SRI
• Aman Yadav – Lappan-Phillips Professor of Computing Education in the College of Education and College of Natural Science at Michigan State University
• Dan Garcia – Teaching Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley
• Marie Bienkowski – Deputy Director, Academies of Math and Science
• Michelle Riconscente – Chief Operating Officer at Motimatic