The field of Education Sciences is exciting because it draws from so many different perspectives. Investigation in Education Sciences involves research using a wide range of methodological practices and research designs, and yielding a variety of data. For a full list of active labs and to learn more about specific areas of research available in the School of Education at UCI by visiting our Faculty Research page.
Campuswide Undergraduate Research Opportunities
- Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP): Encourages and facilitates research and creative activities by undergraduates from all schools and academic disciplines at UCI.
- Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP): Provides funding for UCI undergraduates from all disciplines who are conducting summer research projects or creative activities under the guidance of UCI faculty members
Research Opportunities in the School of Education
The project is a partnership with two local elementary schools and focuses on teacher professional development and children’s math learning. We are recruiting for spring quarter 2023, with the opportunity to continue during the summer and/or next academic year.
The Language and Learning Analytics Lab (LALA LAB) is recruiting a team of undergraduates to support in the analysis of a new dataset. The project is a partnership between UCI and NeuroMatch, an online learning program for Computational Neuroscience and Deep Learning. Our aim is to understand and model knowledge construction in online discussions. Selected undergraduates will assist with analyzing text through qualitative coding, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Statistical Discourse Analysis (SDA).
This is a great opportunity to gain experience with text analysis; work with education faculty and graduate students; explore a new field of study; and earn credit for independent research (ED198). Any and all majors welcome! If you are interested in this opportunity, please send an email to Lauren Snow (lesnow@uci.edu). In your email, briefly specify (a) why you are interested in this project, (b) why you think you are a good fit, and (c) your CV or Resume. Our team is looking for two to three undergraduate research assistants who are passionate about education or research and interested in learning more about disrupting racism in schools. This is a great opportunity to gain research experience; learn firsthand about efforts to address systemic racism in schools; explore the field of education and educational research; and work collaboratively with graduate students, teachers, professors, and other undergraduates.
Applications due Oct. 7th! If you are interested in this opportunity, please fill out this application form or go to the following link: https://forms.gle/KvPikH7NKRCgHphL9. For more information or to answer any questions, please email Dana Conlin (dconlin@uci.edu). 
The Design and Partnership Lab (daplab) at UCI School of Education is seeking highly motivated undergraduate research assistants for the 2022-2023 school year! Under the direction of Dr. June Ahn (daplab Director), the daplab partners with community stakeholders to co-create new educational technologies or social systems with a focus on improving teaching, learning, and education organizations that serve diverse learners. In essence, the daplab has a particular focus on promoting equity in education by giving voice to our partners as co-designers of tools and educational systems, designing from the wisdom and funds of knowledge of community partners, and offering our research and design capacity in service of community issues and needs.
The benefits and requirements of joining the lab as an undergrad RA are attached and included in the flyer below. For more information about our studies and projects, please feel free to visit our daplab website at https://sites.uci.edu/daplab/. To apply for the research assistant position, please complete an RA Interest Form here: https://forms.gle/6cGuEat6D58pqCD49. If you have any questions or concerns, you can email Christopher Martinez directly at cpmarti1@uci.edu. 
The Science of Learning Lab is recruiting motivated Research Assistants to start next quarter (Fall 2022). This is a great opportunity to gain marketable skills and cultivate relationships with graduate students and faculty members.
The Science of Learning Lab investigates how children and adults learn and reason using both qualitative and quantitative methods, in the lab and in real classrooms. Some of the research questions our assistants help us answer include: - How do parents shape children's complex reasoning skills? We bring young children and their parents into the lab to observe how they talk to each other during cooperative reasoning tasks, and relate these interactions to children's independent reasoning. - How can we promote children's complex reasoning skills? We bring young children into the lab and vary aspects of the task and environment to explore their effects on children's reasoning behavior. - Why are some students better able to learn from classroom instruction than others? How can we improve classroom instruction to benefit all learners? We administer high quality video lessons to children in classrooms to see who learns best, to understand how to support all students in gaining the most from every lesson, and to understand what aspects of the lessons are most helpful to students. 
The UCI Working Memory and Plasticity Lab at UCI (WMP Lab) is seeking highly motivated undergraduate research assistants! Under the leadership of Dr. Susanne Jaeggi, the WMP Lab studies the development of working memory interventions along with other cognitive domains. By means of behavioral and neuroimaging methods, this interdisciplinary team seeks to understand the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms that drive training-related changes. For more information about our studies, please check out the WMP Lab website at https://wmp.education.uci.edu/. To apply for the research assistant position, please visit https://bit.ly/wmplabraapp.
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UCI's Bilingualism, Mind, and Brain Lab is looking for motivated and driven undergraduate students to join our lab as Research Assistants! Have you ever wondered what goes on in the brain when we learn or speak a second language? Or if there are cognitive and behavioral advantages to being bilingual? Join the BMB Lab and find out!
Professor Rossella Santagata, Ph.D. is reaching out about an opportunity to get involved in research related to mathematics teaching and learning. Dr. Santagata directs a project in two elementary schools in Buena Park and is looking for two or three undergraduate research assistants to join our research team (2 PhD students and one postdoc) for the year and help us with various tasks, including conducting focus groups with parents about math use in the family and community, joining a community walk to map community assets related to math learning, coding children’s math thinking according to a research-based framework, transcribe parent and children discussions, entering/organizing data, etc.
During the academic quarters you will be able to sign up for EDU198 for a grade and receive 4 units per quarter, for approx.. 8 hours of research-related work per week. Schedule will be flexible, but you will need to be available for weekly team meetings and other task-focused meetings (some on zoom, some in person) mostly during the workday (Mo-Fri, 8am – 5pm). If you are interested in this opportunity, please fill in this short form by Friday Sept 30: https://forms.gle/4DsQr9j7pqaAmFdD9 
Interested in working with science teachers while participating in educational research focused on promoting equity in science education? We’re assembling a team of undergraduates to help with a project engaging science teachers. The project is a partnership between UCI and local school districts, designed to create engaging and empowering science learning experiences and promote complex thinking for students from under-represented communities. As an undergraduate research assistant, you would help with data collection and analysis (including opportunities to conduct your own mini research project) and other research team tasks.
This is a great opportunity to gain experience with program implementation and data collection; work with education faculty, graduate students, and teachers; learn firsthand about science instruction in K-12 classrooms; explore a new field of study; and earn credit for independent research (ED198). Any and all majors welcome, though experience working with children or a STEM field is a plus! We are looking for two or three undergraduate research assistants (RA) for the research project. If you want to apply, please see the full description of the project below and send an email to Victoria Nyugen (victotn7@uci.edu), a PhD student/researcher of this project. Project Title: Expanding Latinx Students’ Opportunities to Develop Complex Thinking in Secondary Science Classrooms through a Research-Practice Partnership Description of the project This project, titled as, “Expanding Latinx Students’ Opportunities to Develop Complex Thinking in Secondary Science Classrooms through a Research-Practice Partnership” is a research project supported by the National Science Foundation. The purpose of this project is twofold: to design professional development that facilitates the collaboration among science teachers, science teacher educators, and UCI scientists to produce two sets of inclusive curricula that promote complex thinking in STEM for youth from under-represented communities; and to study its impact on teachers’ instructional capacity and the youth’s advancement of thinking. Responsibilities The undergraduate RAs will assist with the data collection (e.g., recording science instruction, interviewing teachers and students) and data analysis focusing on teacher learning (i.e., teachers’ enhanced practice to adapt the curriculum), student learning (i.e., the progress of thinking), and the improvement of a local STEM instruction system. Specifically, the responsibilities include:
Desirable qualifications
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send an email to Victoria Nyugen (victotn7@uci.edu). In your email, specify (a) why you are interested in this project, (b) why you think you are a good fit with this project, and (c) your CV or Resume that includes your GPA. The UCI Measuring Undergraduate Success Trajectories team is recruiting undergrad RAs to join our team starting Fall 2022. Students will have the opportunity to receive 4 units per quarter of Directed Research (EDUC 198 or IN4MATX 199) credit in exchange for about 10 hours of work per week. Applications received by September 28 will be given full consideration.
For more information about our project, please visit: https://sites.uci.edu/ucimustproject/ Tasks: attending weekly meetings, scoring open-ended survey responses, data cleaning in SPSS, applying data science methods to address real-world issues, and being involved in other research tasks. Eligibility & Requirements: Highly motivated students, 3.0 GPA, at least sophomore status, interest in education research, commitment to being involved in the project for at least 10 hours per week for a minimum of two quarters, strong organizational and communication skills. To apply, please submit your application here. If you have any questions, please contact our lab manager Maria Calderon Leon (mdcalder@uci.edu). The UCI Measuring Undergraduate Success Trajectories team is recruiting undergrad RAs to join our team starting Fall 2022. Students will have the opportunity to receive 4 units per quarter of Directed Research (EDUC 198 or IN4MATX 199) credit in exchange for about 10 hours of work per week. Applications received by September 28 will be given full consideration.
For more information about our project, please visit: https://sites.uci.edu/ucimustproject/ Tasks: attending weekly meetings, scoring open-ended survey responses, data cleaning in SPSS, applying data science methods to address real-world issues, and being involved in other research tasks. Eligibility & Requirements: Highly motivated students, 3.0 GPA, at least sophomore status, interest in education research, commitment to being involved in the project for at least 10 hours per week for a minimum of two quarters, strong organizational and communication skills. To apply, please submit your application here. If you have any questions, please contact our lab manager Maria Calderon Leon (mdcalder@uci.edu). The UCI Measuring Undergraduate Success Trajectories team is recruiting undergrad RAs to join our team starting Fall 2022. Students will have the opportunity to receive 4 units per quarter of Directed Research (EDUC 198 or IN4MATX 199) credit in exchange for about 10 hours of work per week. Applications received by September 28 will be given full consideration.
For more information about our project, please visit: https://sites.uci.edu/ucimustproject/ Tasks: attending weekly meetings, scoring open-ended survey responses, data cleaning in SPSS, applying data science methods to address real-world issues, and being involved in other research tasks. Eligibility & Requirements: Highly motivated students, 3.0 GPA, at least sophomore status, interest in education research, commitment to being involved in the project for at least 10 hours per week for a minimum of two quarters, strong organizational and communication skills. To apply, please submit your application here. If you have any questions, please contact our lab manager Maria Calderon Leon (mdcalder@uci.edu). 
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