Cynthia D’Angelo is a post doc with the Epistemic Games group. She is currently the Research Director for the group’s grants.
Background
Cynthia D’Angelo has a background in physics and science education. She has always been interested in improving science instruction and most recently, using simulations and games to help facilitate learning. Among other things, she is interested in how students make use of multimedia representations of scientific concepts in games. Her dissertation work involved looking at how students’ understanding of vectors, vector addition, and Newtonian mechanics was mediated by representations and scaffolding questions in a specially designed game. (For more on this game, please see:
http://www.surgeuniverse.com.)
Ph.D. Science Education, Arizona State University, 2010
M.S. Physics, Arizona State University, 2007
B.S. Physics/Astrophysics, University of California at San Diego, 2003
More information
For more information about Cynthia’s research interests and publications please see:
Website: http://web.me.com/cynthiadangelo/cmd/cv.html
CV: http://web.me.com/cynthiadangelo/cmd/cv_files/cmd%20CV.pdf
Contact Information
Cynthia D’Angelo
Wisconsin Center for Educational Research
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1025 W Johnson St. Room 499A
Madison, WI 53706
v: + 1 608 890 0665
e: cmdangelo at wisc dot edu
