Rod Roscoe

Dr. Rod D. Roscoe is an Associate Professor of Human Systems Engineering in the Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, and affiliate faculty of the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. He currently serves as the Director of Inclusive Excellence for the Learning Engineering Institute. He is also faculty affiliate with the Research for Inclusive STEM Education (RISE) Center; Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology (CGEST); and the Center for Human, Artificial Intelligence, and Robot Teaming (CHART). In 2017, he was selected as a Diane and Gary Tooker Professor of Effective Education in STEM.

He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Educational Psychology, and as an Editorial Board member for Technology, Mind, and Behavior and Educational Research Review.

Dr. Roscoe earned his doctorate in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh (2007, Advisor: Dr. Michelene Chi) at the Learning Research and Development Center, where he focused on peer tutoring and learning by teaching. From 2007-2009, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University, where he worked on teachable agents. From 2009-2011, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis, focusing on an automated writing evaluation and intelligent tutoring of writing strategies.

His work brings together insights from psychological science, learning science, computer science, and equity science - all the sciences! - to inform effective, innovative, and equitable implementations of educational technology. For example, he is interested in how cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational learning processes are integrated via self-regulated learning, and how educational technologies can empower such learning. He is engaged in research on automated writing evaluation and feedback, game-based learning and assessment, virtual reality, user-centered design, and more.

Dr. Roscoe is deeply passionate about inclusive excellence. He has participated in numerous committees and initiatives within Arizona State University (e.g., Committee for Campus Inclusion, Fulton Schools of Engineering Faculty Council), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society, International Society for the Learning Sciences, and the Society for Text and Discourse.

His work in inclusive excellence has generated multiple meaningful products, such as the award-winning edited volume Advancing Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice through Human Systems Engineering (CRC Press). He also introduced the idea of "journeyocracy" as a necessary extension and evolution of "meritocracy," promoted the formation of coalitions across organizations, and written about making AI-based technologies more inclusive and asset-based.

In 2024, he received the Committee Campus Inclusion Catalyst Award for faculty.