Teaching and Learning Lab, the University of California, Los Angeles

At the UCLA Teaching and Learning Lab, I am fortunate to work full-time alongside Prof. James Stigler as a research assistant.

My primary focus lies in leading a project that investigates college students’ procrastination behaviors in introductory statistics. Specifically, I am examining the interplay between math anxiety (a psychological trait), academic procrastination (engagement data), and academic performance. In this role, I initiate research questions, craft proposals, and conduct data coding and analysis using R Studio and Python on CourseKata data.

Additionally, I am actively engaged in a research topic centered on understanding high school students’ motivation in introductory statistics classes. I contribute by conducting literature reviews and participating in statistical analyses to identify individual differences and between-group disparities in motivation factors, such as mindset beliefs, utility values, abilities, and self-efficacy. I pay particular attention to exploring these factors at the intersection of race and gender.