Marcia C. Linn

Marcia C. Linn is Evelyn Lois Corey Professor of Instructional Science, specializing in science and technology in the School of Education, University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS). She has served as President of the ISLS, Chair of the AAAS Education Section, and on the boards of the AAAS, the Educational Testing Service Graduate Record Examination, the McDonnell Foundation Cognitive Studies in Education Practice, and the National Science Foundation Education and Human Resources Directorate. Awards include the National Association for Research in Science Teaching Award for Lifelong Distinguished Contributions to Science Education, the American Educational Research Association Willystine Goodsell Award, and the Council of Scientific Society Presidents first award for Excellence in Educational Research.

Linn earned her Ph. D. at Stanford University where she worked with Lee Cronbach. She spent a year in Geneva working with Jean Piaget, a year in Israel as a Fulbright Professor, and a year in London at University College. She has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences three times. Her books include Computers, Teachers, Peers (2000), Internet Environments for Science Education (2004), Designing Coherent Science Education (2008), WISE Science (2009), and Science Teaching and Learning: Taking Advantage of Technology to Promote Knowledge Integration (2011). She chairs the Technology, Education—Connections (TEC) series for Teachers College Press.

Interests and Professional Affiliations

Assessment and Educational Measurement

Cognitive Development

Computer-Mediated Learning

Curriculum Design

Diversity

Educational Equity

Educational Media

Gender Equity

Information Technology

Learning

Participatory Research

Policy Analysis and Evaluation

Practitioner Knowledge and Inquiry

Professional Development for Educators

Research Methods

School and non-school Learning Contexts

School-University Collaboration

Science Education

Simulation Learning Environments

Teacher Development

Testing

Urban Schooling

Degree(s)

PhD, Stanford University, Educational Psychology

Personal Website

WISE (Web-based Inquiry Science Environment)

Contact

Office #4405

School of Education
Berkeley Way West Building (BWW)
UC Berkeley
2121 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94720-1670