K-8 Teachers’ Responses to Their First Professional Development Experience in Engineering

So Yoon Yoon, is an INSPIRE post-doctoral research associate at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. and M.S.Ed. in Educational Psychology with specialties in Gifted Education and Research Methods & Measurement, respectively, from Purdue University. She also holds a M.S. in Astronomy & Astrophysics and a B.S. in Astronomy and Meteorology from Kyungpook National University in South Korea. Her work centers on the development and validation of instruments, particularly useful for P-16 STEM education settings (e.g., the Revised PSVT:R and the TESS), the evaluation of engineering teacher professional development programs, and the investigation of P-16 students’ spatial ability to understand its association with their academic performance and talents in STEM fields.

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