Michelle Jordan
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Phone: 480-965-9663
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Mail code: 5411Campus: Tempe
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Michelle E. Jordan's interdisciplinary research agenda focuses on peer interaction during the creative collaboration between students, students, and teachers, or members of work teams in formal and informal learning contexts. She examines how peers experience, express and manage uncertainty as they engage in collaborative problem-solving, particularly in K-12 STEM learning contexts. Professor Jordan is particularly interested in the roles that sense-making and improvisation play in collaborative learning, with individuals and groups taking actions and making interpretations as they collectively design solutions to complex problems. Her scholarship is grounded in notions of learning as a social process, influenced by complexity theories, sociocultural theories, sociolinguistics, and the learning sciences.
Professor Jordan was the recipient of the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Excellence in the Scholarship of Engagement Award, a ASU Knowledge Exchange for Community Resilience Fellowship (2020), and the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Outstanding Promising Research Scholar Award (2016). She is the Education Director of the QESST Solar Engineering Research Center.
- Ph.D., Educational Psychology (Learning, Cognition, and Motivation), University of Texas-Austin 2010. Dissertation: Managing Uncertainty through Peer Discourse during Collaborative Design Tasks.
- Master's degree. Music Education, Texas State University 2001
- Bachelor's degree. Music Education (honors), University of Colorado-Boulder 1993
Elwood, K., & Jordan, M.E. (2022). Development of the Design Thinking and Instructional Lessons (DTAIL) model: A creative approach for teachers. Educational technology research and development, 70, 1781-1807. Doi: 10.1007/s11423-022-10140-w
*Starrett, E., Firetto, C., & Jordan, M. E. (2022). Navigating sources of teacher uncertainty: Exploring teachers’ collaborative discourse when learning a new instructional approach. Classroom Discourse, 14(1), 45-68. Doi: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19463014.2021.2013266
Jordan, M. E., Zuiker, S., & *Bernier, J. (2021). The future is open and shapeable: Using solar speculative fiction to foster learner agency. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 708(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377211028263 [348 downloads to date]
Jordan, M. E., Zuiker, S., Wakefield, W., & DeLaRosa, M. (2021). Real work with real consequences: Enlisting community energy engineering as an approach to envisioning Engineering in Context. Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER), 11(1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.7771/2157-9288.1294
Silvestri, K., Jordan, M. E. Paugh, P., Schallert, D., & McVee, M. (2021). Intersecting engineering and literacies: A review of the literature on communicative literacies in K-12 engineering education. Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (JPEER), 11(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.7771/2157-9288.1250
Ricca, B. P., Bowers, N. & Jordan, M. E. (2019). Seeking emergence through temporal analysis of collaborative-group discourse: A complex-systems approach. The Journal of Experimental Education, Doi: 10.1080/00220973.2019.1628691
Stewart, O. & Jordan, M. E. (2017). Some explanation here: A case study of learning opportunities and tensions in an informal science learning environment. Instructional Science, 45, 137–156. Doi: 10.1007/s11251-016-9396-7
Jordan, M. E. (2016). Teaching as designing: Preparing pre-service teachers for adaptive teaching. Theory into Practice, 55(3), 197-206.
Zuiker, S. Anderson, K., Jordan, M. E. & Stewart, O. (2016). Complementary lenses: Using theories of situativity and complexity to understand collaborative learning as systems-level social activity. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 9, 80-94.
Jordan, M. E. (2015). Extra! Extra! Read all about it: Interactive read-alouds of a dynamic text with real-time local information. Elementary School Journal, 15(3), 358-383. doi:10.1086/680174
Jordan, M. E. & McDaniel, R. (2014). Managing uncertainty during collaborative problem solving in elementary school teams: The role of peer influence in robotics engineering activity. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 23(4), 490-536. doi: 10.1080/10508406.2014.896254
Jordan, M. E., Schallert, D. L., Cheng, A. J., & the D-Team (2014). “I guess my question is”: What is the co-occurrence of uncertainty and learning in computer-mediated discourse? International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 9(4), 451-475. doi:10.1007/s11412-014-9203-x
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
SCN 494 | Special Topics |
SCN 494 | Special Topics |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
EDP 799 | Dissertation |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
LSE 540 | Theoretical Views Lrnng in LS |
EED 284 | Intro Integr STEAM Learn Exper |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
EED 284 | Intro Integr STEAM Learn Exper |
EED 284 | Intro Integr STEAM Learn Exper |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
EDP 799 | Dissertation |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
DCI 701 | Transdisciplinary Seminar I |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
LSE 542 | Research Methods Learning Sci |
SCN 494 | Special Topics |
SCN 494 | Special Topics |
DCI 691 | Seminar |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
EDP 799 | Dissertation |
SCN 400 | Sustainabl for Sci Teacher |
LSE 540 | Theoretical Views Lrnng in LS |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
LSE 542 | Research Methods Learning Sci |
LSE 599 | Thesis |
SCN 400 | Sustainabl for Sci Teacher |
SCN 494 | Special Topics |
SCN 494 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
EDP 799 | Dissertation |
LSE 599 | Thesis |
LSE 571 | History of Learning Sciences |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
LSE 542 | Research Methods Learning Sci |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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EDT 790 | Reading and Conference |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
EDP 799 | Dissertation |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 792 | Research |
EDP 799 | Dissertation |
EDP 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
LSE 542 | Research Methods Learning Sci |
EDP 310 | Ed Psychology for Non-Teachers |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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EDT 790 | Reading and Conference |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
EDP 799 | Dissertation |
LSE 591 | Seminar |
LSE 571 | History of Learning Sciences |