Assistant Professor of Education, University of Southern California
PhD, Education and Psychology, University of Michigan
Stephen AguiIar is an assistant professor of education in the educational psychology concentration at USC Rossier School of Education. At the Pullias Center for Higher Education, he works with the Digital Equity in Education team. His areas of expertise include motivation and self-regulated learning as they relate to the design and implementation of educational technologies. He specializes in learning analytics, data visualizations, and gameful approaches to teaching and learning.
His research focuses on the design, efficacy, and motivational implications of learning analytics-based applications, and how they can be used in ways that promote social justice and educational achievement among ethnic and racial minority students. Specifically, Aguilar studies how data visualizations of academic achievement influence students’ academic motivation and self-regulated learning strategies. He was also awarded funding from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) to study how Hispanic students’ sense of control contributes to their post-secondary achievement and aspirations.