University of Pittsburgh

Crowley, Kevin

Associate Professor, Department of Instruction & Learning, School of Education (Secondary appointment in Dept. of Psychology)
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
Cognitive Program

Contact

822 LRDC
412-624-8116
Fax: 412-624-7419
crowleyk@pitt.edu
http://upclose.lrdc.pitt.edu

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Research Interests: Cognitive development, Family learning about science and technology in museums and other out-of-school settings, Problem solving and reasoning

Accepting Graduate Students: Yes

Selected Publications

  • Palmquist, S. D. & Crowley, K. (in press). Studying dinosaur learning on an island of expertise. In R. Goldman, R. Pea, B. Barron, & S. Derry (Eds), Video Research in the Learning Sciences. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (Abstract-pdf)
  • Nourbakhsh, I., Hamner, E., Bernstein, D, Crowley, K., ,Ayoob, E., Lotter, M., Shelly, S., Hsiu, T., Porter, E., Dunlavey, B., & Clancy, D. (2006). The Personal Exploration Rover: Educational assessment of a robotic exhibit for informal learning venues. International Journal of Engineering Education, 22(8), 777-791. (Abstract-pdf)
  • Nourbakhsh, I., Crowley, K., Bhave, A., Hamner, E., Hsiu, T., Perez-Bergquist, A., Richards, S., Wilkinson, K. (2005). The Robotic Autonomy Mobile Robotics Course: Robot Design, Curriculum Design and Educational Assessment. Autonomous Robots Journal, 18 (1), 103-127. (Abstract-pdf)
  • Eberbach, C. & Crowley, K, (2005). From living to virtual: Learning from museum objects. Curator, 48 (3), 317-338.
  • Crowley, K. & Knutson, K (2005). Museum as learning laboratory: Bringing research and practice together. Hand to Hand, 19(1), 3-6.

Honors and Awards

  • Roy L. Shafer Leading Edge Award, Association of Science and Technology Centers, for the UPCLOSE partnership with the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, 2005.
  • Member, National Research Council Study Panel on Learning Science, Kindergarten through Eighth Grade, 2004-2005.
  • Program Chair, Visitor Studies Association Conference, 2006.
  • Met Life Promising Practice Award from the Association of Children's Museums, awarded to the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh and UPCLOSE, 2004.

Labs

Graduate Student Advisees

  • Bernstein, Debra
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