Postdoctoral Research Fellow

JOB SUMMARY

Dr. Ido Davidesco at Boston College’s Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology Program seeks to hire a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow for an NSF-funded project.

This project focuses on the role of internal attention in undergraduate science learning. Currently, very little is known about how opportunities to focus attention internally (e.g., asking students to quietly think about a problem as part of a “think-pair-share”) impact student learning. This project manipulates the frequency and duration of “thinking” periods during a lecture and examines the impact on students’ conceptual understanding of science concepts. This research also explores and validate neural indicators of attention, measured with electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracking. Finally, the project team is developing an innovative Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience, where students investigate their own attentional states and associated gaze/brain activity.

The interdisciplinary nature of this project will produce a unique setting for the professional development of the Postdoctoral Research Fellow. The combined exposure to cognitive neuroscience and education research will provide the postdoc with a unique mentoring experience and excellent preparation for their future career.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will be involved in all aspects of the project, including study design, data collection, data analysis, and development of conference presentations and manuscripts.

FTE Range $65,000 – $74,665 based on experience