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PhD Student
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Liche "Sean" Kao
PhD Student
Department of Education
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Biography
LiChe “Sean” Kao is a student in the Ph.D program specializing in Learning, Cognition and Development. His research interests include testing effects, analogy, goal orientation theory, and the TIMSS-R video study.
Sean was born in Taiwan and moved to the U.S. when he was 14 years old. After finishing high school, he went on to graduate from the University of California, Irvine in 2006 with a BA in Psychology and Social Behavior and a minor in Education.
Since graduation, he has been working in different research labs. Most noticeable is his collaboration with Dr. Lindsey Richland on testing effects. Sean has also been the lead investigator of the University-Community Links, Irvine site, examining undergraduate students’ involvement in and perceptions of an after-school program in a low socio-economic status neighborhood.
As a graduate student at UCI, Sean’s short-term goal is to continue his exploration into different aspects of the unintuitive cognitive finding that beyond assessment, testing can enhance learning for content. His long-term goal is to eventually utilize his background and research training to design more cross-cultural studies of the testing effect and goal orientation theory.
Sean enjoys stand-up comedy. His favorite comedians are Jeff Dunham, Lewis Black, Stephen Colbert, and Gabriel Iglesias. His favorite television shows are American Idol, Mythbusters, Penn & Teller: B.S., Good Eats, CSI, House, Psych, and Criminal Minds. He loves sushi and can survive on Buffalo wings for over a week.
Publications
Richland, L., Kornell, N., & Kao, L. (2007, November). Unsuccessful tests
enhance future learning. Poster session presented at the annual meeting
of the Psychonomic Society Publications, Long Beach, CA.
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