Judith Van Alstyne
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Professional Development & Education Reform
Education
PhD, 暗网吃瓜
Biography
Judith Van Alstyne is a postdoctoral fellow听with joint appointments as a liaison for Warner鈥檚 Research Subjects Review Board (RSRB), as a senior researcher for the National Science Foundation-funded project 鈥淐reating a Model for Sustainable Ambitious Mathematics Programs in High-Need Settings,鈥澨齛nd for the Center for Professional Development and Education Reform, where she will be exploring the group information management practices in mentoring contexts, such as Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs).听Van Alstyne also teaches courses in the teaching and curriculum program. Before pursuing her doctoral degree,听she worked in public libraries and as a K-12 school librarian. Helping students keep track of digital information led her to discover the field of Personal Information Management and the lack of research on youth.听Van Alstyne鈥檚 dissertation is titled 鈥淭oward an Understanding of the Personal Information Management Discourses of Youth.鈥� Her research focuses on the digital information practices of youth in multiple settings including academic (e.g., learning management systems) and extracurricular (e.g., digital art and gaming) contexts
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