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In this Podcast:
Dr. Blackmon is the CEO and Director of Research and Evaluation at Innovative Learning Center (ILC). ILC is an education, research and data management firm. Dr. Blackmon earned her Ph.D. in Educational Studies with an emphasis in Science Education from Emory University. She has a B.S. and a M.S. degree in Analytical Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Blackmon completed a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cultural Anthropology.
She has an extensive background in developing and executing performance, outcome, and impact-based evaluations. She has a depth of knowledge of mixed methods research and general inferential statistical analysis. She specializes in designing STEM education program evaluation studies that measure cognitive and non-cognitive variables that influence students’ persistence and retention in STEM.
Dr. Blackmon was trained as a quantitative scientist but specializes in qualitative research methods and analysis. Prior to entering the field of education, Dr. Blackmon worked as a research chemist with Dow Chemical and 3M.
Achievements
She has served as the external evaluator or researcher for 20 funded programs designed to increase students’ knowledge, skills, interests, attitudes, and efficacy in STEM, produced combined over 30 reports, conference presentations, research publications and book chapters. In addition to evaluating programs, she also works with educational leaders to create strategic plans for program design and implementation, develops logic models and provides clients with data visualization services to generate multiple ways for clients to engage evaluation findings.
She has a Collaborative Institutional Training Certification (CITI) certification that is valid from 2010-present and a NIH Human Research Participant Certification valid from 2013-present.
Research
Dr. Blackmon an Adjunct Faculty Researcher. She is the Principal Investigator for the Eye-tracking Distance Learning Research Study. Eye-tracking hardware and software are used to objectively
measure undergraduate students’ cognitive processes while solving chemistry nomenclature and titration word problems in an online environment.
Research in chemistry education shows that eye- tracking is a useful new approach for exploring problem difficulty and students’ cognitive activities while solving chemistry word problems. Research findings from this study have implications for chemistry education and software development to improve chemistry education.
Useful links:
- ILC Home Page https://ilearn.center/2xssLN2
- About Us https://ilearn.center/2JiI6VS
- Blog on Social Emotional Assets in STEM https://ilearn.center/323ITTd
- Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/
ilearningcenter.education/ - Research Gate Profile https://www.researchgate.net/
profile/Angelicque_Blackmon - Inspiration Behind Innovative Learning Center https://ilearn.center/308X1bQ