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NICOLE KERSTING, Ph.D.

Research Scientist at LLRI, is the principal investigator for an IES-funded project: Capturing Teacher Knowledge (TeKno). She also serves as statistician on the Algebra Learning for All (ALFA) project. She received her doctorate from the School of Education at UCLA in 2005. While there she studied social science research methodology with an emphasis on advanced quantitative methods. Her substantive research interests are measuring teacher knowledge and the relationship between teacher knowledge, teaching practice, and student learning. For her dissertation work at UCLA, which presented a novel approach to measuring teacher knowledge of mathematics, she received the Leigh Burstein Award in 2004. From 1995-1998 she worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Psychology at UCLA on the first TIMSS Video Study (TIMSS 1994) and coded the German videotaped mathematics lessons. She first joined LessonLab in 1998 as a code developer for the second TIMSS Video Study (TIMSS 1999), serving as the country associate for

Switzerland

. During graduate school she worked with her advisor on research projects investigating the effects of cooperative small group work in mathematics on student achievement. In 2004 she returned to LessonLab to work on the ALFA project on assessment development and statistical analyses. She is currently directing the TeKno Project.

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