I study how people learn to give feedback that engages with others’ work rather than only judging it, and why that’s harder than it looks.
📣 I am on the 2026–27 academic job market. My CV is here.
👋 About me
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Instructional Systems and Learning Technology at Florida State University, advised by Dr. Vanessa Dennen. I expect to graduate in May 2027.
My research asks how people learn to give feedback that engages with a peer’s work rather than only judging it. I started with expert practice: in academic peer review, I found that reviewers’ questions led to more productive knowledge co-construction with authors than their suggested solutions. My dissertation turns to novices, studying how doctoral students learn to give feedback in a writing course with scaffolded peer review. Next, I will study how the design of peer feedback tasks, including AI tools, shapes whether students treat feedback as a chance to understand a peer’s work or as a task to complete. I use qualitative and computational methods, including interviews, content analysis, and epistemic network analysis.
I also teach. Since fall 2023, I have taught EME 2040 Introduction to Educational Technology, an undergraduate course for pre-service teachers, both in person and online.
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