Dr. Mikyung Shin

Research Interests & Areas

Dr. Shin's research interests include developing and implementing math interventions using technology (e.g., virtual manipulatives and conversational AI) to support students with math learning disabilities and difficulties in enhancing math word problems, including fraction concepts and skills. She has applied meta-analytic and multilevel modeling to analyze item, student, and study or school-level data from single-case to large-scale data.

Recently, she has been employing language models and Bayesian statistics to analyze text (e.g., dialogues and interviews) and graphical data collected from students, parents, and teachers. She has also been developing and testing semi-automatized approaches to validate distinctive math vocabulary and the impacts of linguistic complexities on math problem-solving across students' grades, race/ethnicity, and difficulty levels. She plans to incorporate real-time data collection tools to fully examine how diverse learners with disabilities read and respond to word problem questions and interventions.