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William Sandoval Asst. Professor Psychological Studies in Education 2339 Moore Hall -- (310) 794-5431 sandoval@gseis.ucla.edu Ph.D., Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, 1998

Areas of Interest

I'm interested in the following areas and how they relate to each other:

• Children's ideas about how science is done and what scientific knowledge is, and how these ideas influence their efforts to learn science.
• Teachers' ideas about how science is done and what scientific knowledge is, and how these ideas influence their science teaching.
• The role technology can play in mediating science learning and teaching in classrooms, especially in supporting meaningful scientific inquiry.
• Understanding how innovative designs for education can help us develop better theories of learning and better educational practice.