BBI Staff
Yiyan Wu, M.S.
Research Assistant
Yiyan Wu (Page) is one of the research assistants working on the program evaluation of the “NY Makes Work Pay” Medicaid Infrastructure Grant. Meanwhile, Yiyan is pursuing her doctoral degree in the program of instructional design, development and evaluation (IDD&E) in the School of Education at Syracuse University. Her research interests are in instructional design and educational evaluation in the distance education field.
Yiyan’s research specifically focuses on using instructional design principles to design different instructional strategies in order to support or scaffold students' thinking and learning within technology-enhanced learning environments. This also entails evaluating the impact and effectiveness of different distance educational programs on learners, instructors, and institutions. Currently, Yiyan is working on a research study regarding senior engineering students’ team collaborative problem solving within a technology-enhanced distributed cross-institutional educational environment. Her future dissertation research will be built on results coming from this study and she intends to investigate how students’ collaboration level correlates with their problem-solving, and how a particular instructional intervention may impact students’ team collaboration.
Yiyan has a great deal of experience working in Distant Education environments and other technology based environments. She has been working closely with department faculties and colleagues on different design or evaluation projects at school, district, regional, or national levels, as well as co-authoring conferencing presentations or journal papers. She is a current member of AECT (Association for Educational Communications and Technology), AEA (American Evaluation Association), and AERA (American Educational Research Association).
YiYan is working on her doctoral degree at Syracuse University, majoring in Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation.
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