Victor Lee
Assistant Professor
Multimedia Minor Coordinator
Email: victor.lee@usu.edu
Location: EDUC 227
Office Phone: 797-7562
Fax: (435) 797-2693
2830 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322
Lab Website: VITAL Collaborative
Multimedia Minor Info
Biography | Research Interests | Education | Publications | Presentations | Projects | Awards | Courses
Biography
Victor Lee is a learning scientist and instructional technologist who specializes in the study of external representations, science teaching and learning, cognition, and novel learning technologies. His most recent design and development work involves creating materials to support K-12 teaching and learning. Currently, he explores the potential of physical activity data technologies (such as heart rate monitors, distance trackers, accelerometers, etc.) and personally relevant data to support learning about measures of center and data analysis processes. Previous work involved the study of visual representations in instructional materials for middle school science and studying intuitive science knowledge, particularly as it can be captured in cognitive clinical interviews or in small group interactions. Lee also does some research on issues of learning and activity that take place through non-school contexts, such as in casual board gaming and in athletic training. Lee was a graduate fellow with the NSF-funded Center for Curriculum Materials in Science, past recipient of the American Educational Research Association's SIG ATL/EST- Best Student Paper award, and a recipient of a NSF CAREER award. He perviously served as Chair of AERA's Special Interest Group for Advanced Technologies for Learning.
Research Interests
physical activity data recording technologies, external representations, cognitive science, science education, clinical interviews, human computer interaction
Education
Ph.D. Learning Sciences, Northwestern University 2008.
BS Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego 2001
BA Math/Applied Science, University of California, San Diego 2001
Selected Publications
**please feel free to contact me if you are seeking a copy of a paper but are unable to find it.
Berland, L. K., & Lee, V. R. (in press). In pursuit of consensus: Disagreement and legitimization during small group argumentation. International Journal of Science Education. link
Sherin, B., Krakowski, M., & Lee, V. R. (2012). Some assembly required: How scientific explanations are constructed in clinical interviews. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 49(2), 166-198. doi: 10.1002/tea.20455 link
Lee, V. R., Shelton, B. E., Walker, A., Caswell, T., & Jensen, M. (2012). ReTweeting History: Exploring the intersection of microblogging and problem-based learning for historical reenactments. In K. Seo, D. Pellegrino & C. Engelhard (Eds.), Designing Problem-Driven Instruction Using Online Social Media (pp. 23-40). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. link
Lee, V. R., & Thomas, J. M. (2011). Integrating physical activity data technologies into elementary school classrooms. Educational Technology Research and Development, 59(6), 865-884. doi: 10.1007/s11423-011-9210-9. link
Berland, M., & Lee, V. R. (2011). Collaborative strategic board games as a site for distributed computational thinking. International Journal of Game-Based Learning. 1(2), 65-81. link
Lee, V. R., & DuMont, M. (2010). An exploration into how physical activity data-recording devices could be used in computer-supported data investigations. International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 15(3), 167-189. link
Lee, V. R. (2010). How different variants of orbit diagrams influence students' explanations of the seasons. Science Education. 94(6), 985-1007. link
Lee, V. R. (2010). What students include in hand-drawn diagrams to explain seasonal temperature variation. In A. Goel, M. Jamnik & N. H. Narayanan (Eds.), Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, LNAI 6170 (pp. 313-315). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. link
Lee, V. R. (2010). Adaptations and continuities in the use and design of visual representations in US middle school science textbooks. International Journal of Science Education, 32(8), 1099-1126. link
Lee, V. R., Russ, R. S., & Sherin, B. (2008). A functional taxonomy of discourse moves for conversation management during cognitive clinical interviews about scientific phenomena. In V. Sloutsky, B. Love & K. McRae (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1723-1728). Austin, TX.
Lee, V. R., & Sherin, B. (2006). Beyond transparency: How students make representations meaningful. In S. A. Barab, K. E. Hay & D. T. Hickey (Eds.), Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference of the Learning Sciences (Vol. 1, pp. 397-403). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Kanter, D., Sherin, B., & Lee, V. R. (2006). Changing conceptual ecologies in task-structured science curricula. In S. A. Barab, K. E. Hay & D. T. Hickey (Eds.), Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference of the Learning Sciences (Vol. 1, pp. 293-299). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Selected Presentations
Lee, V. R. (2011). Supporting elementary students’ knowledge construction of measures of center: A PAD-based approach. Paper presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Berkeley, CA.
Berland, L. K., & Lee, V. R. (2011). Analyzing argumentative discourse to identify factors underlying consensus-building processes. Paper presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
Lee, V. R. (2010). A Feasibility Study of Physical Activity Data Technologies as Investigative Tools for High School Students. Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Denver, CO.
Lee, V. R. (2010). Misconstruals or more? The interactions of orbit diagrams and explanations of the seasons. Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Denver, CO.
Berland, M.W. & Lee, V. R. (2010). Using Designer Board Games to Understand Distributed Computational Thinking. Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Denver, CO.
Lee, V. R. (2009). Examining patterns of visual representation use in middle school science classrooms. Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching.
Projects
The PAD Project
Historical Change In Instructional Representations
Learning to Play: Collaborative Board Games as a Learning Environment
TwHistory: Re-enacting historical events through Twitter
Awards & Honors
2011 NSF CAREER Award
2010 ICLS Early Career/Junior Researcher
2007 Northwestern University Dissertation Year Fellowship.
2007 Best Student Paper Award for AERA SIG-ATL (Advanced Technologies for Learning)/EST
(Education in Science Technology. now Learning Sciences).
2005 Graduate Fellow of the Center for Curriculum Materials in Science.
2002 Cognitive Science Fellowship.
2001 UC San Diego Alumni Award.
1997 UC San Diego Regents Scholar.
Courses
INST 5205: Computer Applications for Instruction and Training
INST 6205: Computer Applications for Instruction and Training
ITLS 6101: Strategies and Skills for Online Learning
INST 6325: Communication, Instruction, and the Learning Process
ITLS 6540: Learning Theory
ITLS 6570: Performance Systems
INST 6870: Current Issues Seminar
INST 7870: Current Issues Seminar
Small Technologies