The Technical Working Group
A technical working group of leading researchers, developers, and industry representatives is supporting the development of the Framework.
Eva Baker, University of California, Los Angeles
Eva L. Baker is a Distinguished Professor of Education and former acting dean at the University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. She is director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)… READ MORE
Allan Collins, Northwestern University
Allan Collins is Professor Emeritus of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Cognitive Science Society, the American Educational Research Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science… READ MORE
Chris Dede, Harvard University
Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership. His current research includes six grants from NSF, Qualcomm, and the US Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences to explore immersive simulations and transformed social interactions as means of student engagement, learning, and assessment… READ MORE
Adam Gamoran, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Adam Gamoran is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies and former chair of the UW-Madison Department of Sociology. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education, and was appointed by President Obama to serve as a member of the National Board for Education Sciences… READ MORE
Kenji Hakuta, Stanford University
Kenji Hakuta is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University. He has been at Stanford since 1989, except for three years when he left to serve the new University of California at Merced as its Founding Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts… READ MORE
Kenneth Koedinger, Carnegie Mellon University
Kenneth Koedinger has an MS in Computer Science, a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, and experience teaching in an urban high school. This multidisciplinary background supports his research goals of understanding human learning and creating educational technologies that increase student achievement. He has developed computer models of student thinking and learning that are used to guide the design of educational materials, practices and technologies… READ MORE
David Niemi, Kaplan Inc.
David Niemi is Vice President of Measurement and Evaluation at Kaplan Inc., where he oversees efforts to: improve the quality of measurement across all business units, evaluate the effectiveness of curricula and instruction, and study the impact of innovative products and strategies… READ MORE
James Pellegrino, University of Illinois at Chicago
James Pellegrino is Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as Co-director of UIC’s interdisciplinary Learning Sciences Research Institute… READ MORE
William Penuel, University of Corolado at Boulder
William Penuel is professor in educational psychology and the learning sciences. His research focuses on teacher learning and organizational processes that shape the implementation of educational policies, school curricula, and afterschool programs. In his research, he examines learning and development from sociocultural, social capital, and complex social systems perspectives… READ MORE
Zoran Popović , University of Washington
Zoran Popović is a Director of Center of Game Science and a Professor of computer science at University of Washington. Zoran’s research interests lie in design and development interactive games and computer graphics research, focusing on scientific discovery through game play, learning games, high-fidelity human modeling and animation… READ MORE
Steve Ritter, Carnegie Learning
Steve Ritter, Chief Scientist at Carnegie Learning, has been developing and evaluating educational systems for over 10 years. He earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and helped to found Carnegie Learning in 1998… READ MORE
Russ Rumberger, University of California, Santa Barbara
Russell W. Rumberger is Vice Provost for Education Partnerships, University of California Office of the President and Professor of Education in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara.A faculty member at UCSB since 1987, Professor Rumberger has published widely in several areas of education: education and work; the schooling of disadvantaged students, particularly school dropouts and linguistic minority students; school effectiveness; and education policy… READ MORE
Marshall Smith, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Marshall “Mike” Smith is currently a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He has served as a leading federal education official in the Carter, Clinton, and Obama administrations, including a stint as acting deputy secretary, which included managing the day-to-day affairs of the 5,000-employee U.S. Department of Education… READ MORE
James P. Spillane, Northwestern University
James P. Spillane, PhD, is the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He is also chair of the Human Development and Social Policy program, professor of Learning Sciences, professor of Management and Organizations, and a faculty associate at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research… READ MORE
Phoenix Wang, Startl
Phoenix Wang has spent her career enabling people to achieve and lead transformative change. Adept at strategic, product and operational plans, Phoenix has spearheaded a range of initiatives, from corporate systems integration to new media ventures to systemic change in urban school districts… READ MORE
