I am Ido Roll, a Research Associate in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS) and the Department of Physics and Astronomy (PHAS) @ the University of British Columbia. I am also a researcher in the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI) and the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC), and an instructor in the Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making (IIPDM) in Haifa University.
I graduated from the Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) in Carnegie Mellon University, where I worked with Ken Koedinger (HCII, Psychology), Vincent Aleven (HCII), David Klahr (Psychology), and Dan Schwartz (Stanford/Education).
I study how students become better scientists and better learners, that is, what conditions support the acquisition of scientific-inquiry and self-regulation skills. I do so in the context of authentic environments and tasks, often using educational technologies. A combination of experiments, ethnographies, data mining, computational modelling, and other methodologies allows me to understand the nature of these skills, how they are acquired and applied, and their interaction with domain-level knowledge.