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Dr. Kimberley Gomez: Learning Sciences Researcher & Professor @ Pitt

Posted on 10. Sep, 2009 by Leshell Hatley in Faculty, I'm a Full Professor!, Research, Scholarly Celebrations

Dr. Kimberley Gomez

Dr. Kimberley Gomez joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in the School of Education’s Department of Instruction and Learning and Learning Policy Center and as a research scientist in LRDC.

She is a learning-sciences researcher whose work focuses on helping children of color experience more equitable opportunities to learn in underserved middle and high schools.

At the center of her research and design efforts is the support of literacy to achieve equity which is reflected in three interrelated lines of work:

1. access to rigorous, state of the art learning materials that meet students’ literacy and language needs and scaffold and transform their learning;
2. access to engaging and motivating learning environments;
3. interaction with teachers who have knowledge, training, and skills that can meet literacy and learning needs.

Current projects include a study of the relationship between reading achievement and science achievement with 9th through 11th graders in seven Chicago high schools and a study of technology-rich urban after-school programs, with a particular focus on the development of new media literacies.

Kimberley Gomez received the BS degree in speech pathology from the University of Florida in 1978, the MS degree in speech and language pathology from Florida State University in 1980, and the MS and PhD degrees in educational psychology from the University of Chicago in 1991 and 1994, respectively.

Kimberley Gomez’ work has appeared in various publications, including Linguistics and Education, Phi Delta Kappan, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Education and Urban Society, and The Journal of Negro Education. Her edited volume with Katherine Richardson Bruna, The Work of Language in Multicultural Classrooms: Talking Science, Writing Science was published in July of 2008.

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