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CURRENT PROJECTS
REFINING STUDENT THINKING THROUGH RESPONSIVE TEACHING IN SCIENCE CLASSROOMS
In collaboration with middle school educators in Utah, we are co-designing engineering curriculum to enable students to share and refine their thinking through responsive teaching. This project is in collaboraiton with the ASPIRE Engineering Research Center and is funded by the National Science Foundation (1941524).
Collaborators: Dr. Hillary Swanson
PROJECT UNITE:
UNIFIED NETWORKS IN TRANSITION EDUCTION
Project UNITE sets out to improve transition services for neurodivergent students. As part of a research-practice partnership with a Utah-based school district, the purpose of our project is to work in collaboration with general and special education teachers, school counselors, and school administrators to identify how we may unify efforts for transition service delivery.
Collaborator: Dr. Stephen Kwiatek
UNDERSTANDING THE EXPERIENCES OF RURAL COMMUNITY SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATORS IN UTAH
Our goal in this project is to understand the state of community sex education in rural Utah. Specifically what curriculum and topics are being taught by community sex educators, in which settings is this occurring, best practices, and common pitfalls in conducting sex education programs in rural Utah.
Collaborators: Drs. Cris Meier & Julie Gast
HIGHLIGHTED WORK
BEST DESIGN PAPER.
Lawrence, L., Guo, B., Yang, K., Echeverria, V., Kang, Z., Bathala, V., Li, C., Huang, W., Rummel, N., & Aleven, V. (2022). Process to co-design AI-based orchestration tools to support dynamic transitions: Design narratives through Conjecture Mapping. Paper accepted at the15th Annual Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. International Society of the Learning Sciences. Hiroshima, Japan. [link] [pdf]
INVITED TALK.
Lawrence, L., (2022). Co-designing AI-based orchestration tools to support dynamic transitions. University of Pittsburgh, Virtual, March 28, 2022.
BEST DESIGN PAPER NOMINATION.
Lawrence, L., Tucker, T., & Mercier, E. (2021). Examining the influence of instructor interventions on group collaboration. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning-CSCL 2021. International Society of the Learning Sciences. (pp. 161-164). Bochum, Germany. [link] [pdf]
PAST PROJECTS
This selected work comes from research positions at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, the Siebel Center for Design, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of California, Irvine.
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