Biography

Dr. Julie L. Booth received her doctoral degree in psychology in 2005 from Carnegie Mellon University and trained as a post-doctoral fellow at the NSF-funded Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, where she conducted research on students’ learning in real-world classrooms. Dr. Booth has received funding from both IES and NSF as primary investigator or co-primary investigator on nine federal grants, including her current IES grant on the connections between fraction knowledge and algebra and the MathByExample project managed by the Strategic Education Research Partnership. She is published in top journals for both psychology and education fields, including Child Development, Learning and Instruction, and Science. Her research interests lie in translating between cognitive science/cognitive development and education by finding ways to bring laboratory tested cognitive principles to real-world classrooms, identifying prerequisite skills and knowledge necessary for learning, and examining individual differences in the effectiveness of instructional techniques based on learner characteristics. She recently won the Linking Research and Practice Outstanding Publication Award from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.