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Faculty
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Rossella Santagata
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
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Biography
Rossella Santagata is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education. She received her Ph.D from the UCLA Dept. of Psychology in 2002. Before joining the UCI faculty, Dr. Santagata was director of research at the LessonLab Research Institute (2002-06) and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA (2004-06). Dr. Santagata has also worked as clinical psychologist in Italy with children with language delay and learning disabilities. Her UCLA doctoral work focused on the analysis of Italian mathematics teaching practices and mistake-management strategies in Italian and U.S. classrooms. Dr. Santagata is also on the faculty at the Scuola di Specializzazione all'Insegnamento Secondario in Rome, Italy, where she teaches a video- and internet-based course on Reflection, Analysis, and Planning to pre-service Italian teachers.
Research
Professor Santagata's research interests are in two areas: (1) mathematics teaching and learning in different cultures, and (2) teacher learning and professional development, with a focus on the use of multimedia technology to foster teacher professional growth. Her investigations employ a variety of methodologies, depending on a particular project's research goals and questions. These include qualitative approaches (case studies, ethnography, and discourse analysis) and quantitative investigations (pre- and post-test comparisons, experimental and quasi-experimental studies). Video and multimedia technologies have always been integral to her projects.
Professor Santagata is currently Co-PI of two research studies:
- Algebra Learning for All (ALEA - funded by the Institute of Education Sciences; PI: Jim Stigler) is an experimental study of a teacher professional development program implemented in a high-poverty and low-performing school district.
- Assessing Teacher Knowledge of Teaching Mathematics (TeKno - funded by the Institute of Education Sciences; PI: Nicole Kersting) consists in the development and testing of a video-based measure of teacher knowledge.
For more details on Professor Santagata's research, please visit her website at:
http://gsesrv02.gse.uci.edu/santagata/.
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