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GSE Profiles
 | Marcia Linn
Professor
Cognition and Development
Office: 4611 Tolman Hall
Phone: (510) 643-6379
Email: mclinn@berkeley.edu
Website: tels.berkeley.edu/~mclinn/ | Staff Contact: Kate Capps
Office: 4533 Tolman Hall
Phone: (510) 642-4207
Email: kate@berkeley.edu
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arcia Linn directs one of the 13 Centers for Learning and Teaching funded by the National Science Foundation: the Technology-Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) center. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she investigates science teaching and learning, gender equity, and design of learning environments. In 1998, the Council of Scientific Society Presidents selected her for its first award in educational research. From 1995-96 and 2001-02 she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. In 1994, the National Association for Research in Science Teaching presented her with its Award for Lifelong Distinguished Contributions to Science Education. The American Educational Research Association bestowed on her the Willystine Goodsell Award in 1991 and the Women Educator's Research Award in 1982. Twice she has won the Outstanding Paper Award of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching(1975 and 1983). She has accepted invitations to contribute as a Fulbright Professor at the Weizmann Institute in Israel; as a Visiting Fellow at University College, London; and as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute J. J. Rousseau in Geneva, Switzerland, where she worked with Jean Piaget. Her board service includes the American Association for the Advancement of Science board, the Graduate Record Examination board of the Educational Testing Service, the McDonnell Foundation Cognitive Studies in Education Practice board, and the Education and Human Resources Directorate at the National Science Foundation. Her publications include Computers, Teachers, PeersScience Learning Partners,with S. Hsi (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000); Internet Environments for Science Education,with E. Davis et al. (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004); "The Tyranny of the Mean: Gender and Expectations," in Notices of the American Mathematical Society(1994); and Designing Pascal Solutions,with M. C. Clancy (W. H. Freeman, 1992).
Ph.D., Stanford University, Educational Psychology
Major Projects and Grants
Areas of Specialization / Interests
Assessment and Educational Measurement
Cognitive Development
Computer-Mediated Learning
Curriculum Development
Development of Professional Learning Communities
Diversity
Educational Equity
Educational Media
Gender Equity
Human-Computer Interface
Information Technology
International Education
Leadership
Learner-centered Education
Learning
Minorities
Multicultural Education
Participatory Research
Policy Analysis and Evaluation
Practitioner Knowledge and Inquiry
Principalship
Professional Development for Educators
Reform Issues
Research Methods
School and non-school Learning Contexts
School Culture
School-University Collaboration
Science Education
Simulation Learning Environments
Superintendency
Teacher Development
Teacher Education and Certification
Technology and Schools
Testing
Urban Leadership
Urban Schooling
Last Modified: 11/29/07
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