Corey Schimpf

Corey Schimpf received the Ph.D. degree in engineering education from Purdue University where his dissertation research explored the use of Minecraft to teach early engineering college students about the design process. He is a Learning Analytics Scientist with the non-for-profit Concord Consortium, which develops technology and curriculum for STEM learning in K–12. Two major strands of his work revolve around learning analytics/educational data mining and the underrepresentation of women and minorities in STEM fields. In the first strand, his work focuses on the development and analysis of learning analytics that model students’ cognitive states or strategies from fine-grained computer-logged data of students’ participation in open-ended science and engineering projects as well as assistive software for researchers engaged in these methods. In the second strand of work, he examines the effects of policies on underrepresentation and patterns in retention and attrition in STEM fields for underrepresented groups.