Engaging Students to Promote Deeper Learning

Michelene (Micki) T.H. Chi is the Dorothy Bray Endowed Professor of Science and Teaching in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. She is a cognitive learning scientist whose current research focuses on how students learn, why they have difficulty learning many science concepts, and what kind of video format is best for online learning. Chi has recently been awarded two IES and one NSF grants to fund these three lines of work. She has over 120 academic publications and her collective work has now been cited over 31,000 times. Chi is an elected member of the National Academy of Education, and her work has been recognized by many awards such as the Sylvia Scribner Award from AERA in 2013 for work that has influenced the thinking and research in the field of learning and instruction, and the Wickenden Award in 2014 for highest standards of scholarly research published in an engineering education journal. Most recently, Chi has been named the winner of the 2015 E.L. Thorndike Career Achievement Award for lifetime contribution in research from the American Psychological Association. 

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