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Chelsea Andrews
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Contact Info:
200 Boston Avenue Suite G810
Medford, MA 02155
Phone: 617-627-5888
Fax: 617-627-4760
Email
Biography:
Dr. Chelsea Andrews is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Tufts University
Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) and University of
Massachusetts-Boston where her primary research involves investigating
children's engagement in engineering design through in-depth case study analysis.
She completed her PhD in the Tufts STEM Education program where she looked at
how elementary students engage in physically testing their designs, how they
handle the inevitable failures that occur during this testing, and how adults
can productively support them through these failure experiences. Prior to
switching to education research, Chelsea studied environmental fluid mechanics
and coastal engineering, specifically looking at wave-current boundary layer
interactions. Chelsea lives near Somerville with her husband and two young sons,
and in her spare time enjoys playing outdoors, board games and puzzles,
and singing with children.
Education:
Ph.D. Engineering Education, Tufts University, 2017
M.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT, 2012
B.S. Ocean Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2008
CEEO Responsibilities:
Chelsea works with Dr. Kristen Wendell and Dr. Tejaswini Dalvi
(assistant professor, UMASS-Boston) on the ConnecTions in the Making project,
studying student engagement in community-connected, integrated science and
engineering curriculum units in diverse elementary classrooms. She also
teaches in the Teacher Engineering Education Program (TEEP).
Publications and Presentations:
- Wendell, K., C. J. Andrews, C. J.,& P. Paugh (in
press). Supporting Knowledge Construction in Elementary Engineering Design.
Science Education.
- Andrews, C.J.,
K. Wendell, T. Dalvi, N. Batrouny, F. Rahman, & R. Londhe (2019, June). Revising
ConnecTions in the Making to Improve Equity and Sustainability. Paper to be
presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association
(AERA), Toronto, Canada.
- Wendell, K., Andrews, C.J., & Paugh, P. (2018, June).
Multimodal engineering design notebooks and meta-representational competence.
Poster presented at the International Conference on the Learning Sciences,
London, UK.
- Andrews, C. J.
(2017). Elementary Students' Engagement in Failure-prone Engineering Design
Tasks. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Tufts University, Medford, MA.
- Wendell, K. & C. J. Andrews,(2017, April).
Multimedia Notebook Cards in Support of Engineering Design Practices and
Disciplinary Discourse in Elementary School. Presented at the 90th Annual
International Conference of the National Association for Research in Science
Teaching (NARST), San Antonio, TX.
- Wendell, K. & C. J. Andrews,(2017, June).
Elementary Student Engagement with Digital Engineering Notebook Cards
(Fundamental). Proceedings of the 124th Annual American Society of
Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference & Exposition, Columbus, OH.
- Andrews, C. J.
and Wendell, K. (2016, August). Designing a digital notebooking tool to support
disciplinary Discourse in elementary engineering, Presented at the 3rd
P-12 Design and Engineering Summit, Chicago, IL.
- Andrews, C. J.
(2016, June). Failure and idea evolution in an elementary engineering workshop,
Proceedings of the 123rd Annual American Society of Engineering Education
Conference, New Orleans, LA.
- Andrews, C. J.
(2016, April). "Can I see if this fails?": Positioning during an elementary
engineering design task, Poster session presented at the meeting of the
American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington, D.C.
- Wilkerson, M. H., C. Andrews, Y. Shaban, L. Vasiliki, & B.
Gravel. (2016). What's the Technology For? Teacher Attention and Pedagogical
Goals in a Modeling-Focused Professional Development Workshop. Journal of
Science Teacher Education, (), 1-23.
- Wilkerson-Jerde, M. H., B. E. Gravel, C. Andrews, & Y.
Shaban. (2015, April). Teacher attention and pedagogical goals in a
computational modeling-focused professional development workshop. Presented
at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
Chicago, IL.
- Andrews, C. J.
(2014). Physical testing in an elementary engineering camp, Proceedings of
121st Annual American Society of Engineering Education Conference,
Indianapolis, IN.
- Andrews, C. J.
(2014). Importance of failure in children's Engineering design tasks,
Presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, San
Francisco, CA.
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