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Email: ido.davidesco@bc.edu
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Ido Davidesco is the director of the Lab-to-Classroom Research Group at Boston College. His work aims to bridge the gap between psychology, neuroscience, and education research. Through partnerships with K-12 teachers and school leaders, he hopes to make impactful connections between research in these fields and educational practice and policy. He conducts Electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracking research in the laboratory and in virtual reality and real-world classrooms to understand fluctuations in attention and engagement over time and their relation to learning.
He is specifically interested in how students' and teachers' brain activity and eye movements become 'in sync' with one another and how "brain-to-brain synchrony" relate to student engagement, social interactions, and learning. His research also focuses on developing neuroscience-inspired authentic research experiences to foster computational thinking and engineering design in K-12 students. For example, in his NIH-funded BrainWaves program, students learn about their brain by measuring their EEG brain activity with low-cost portable devices. He serves on the editorial boards of Mind, Brain, and Education and npj Science of Learning.
Davidesco, I., Glaser, N., Stevenson, I. H., & Dagan, O. (2023). Detecting fluctuations in student engagement and retention during video lectures using electroencephalography. British Journal of Educational Technology, 54(6), 1895-1916.
Davidesco, I., Laurent, E., Valk, H., West, T., Milne, C., Poeppel, D., Dikker, S. (2023). The Temporal Dynamics of Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Between Students and Teachers Predict Learning Outcomes. Psychological Science, 34(5), 633-643.
Davidesco, I., Bevilacqua, D., Poeppel, D., & Dikker, S. (2021). Neuroscience Research in the Classroom: Portable Brain and Eye Tracking Technologies in Educational Research. Educational Researcher, 50(9), 649-656.
Davidesco, I. (2020). Brain-to-Brain Synchrony in the STEM Classroom. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 19(3).
Keller, A.S., Davidesco, I., & Tanner, K.D. (2020). Attention Matters: How Orchestrating Attention Relates to Classroom Learning. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 19(3).
2022-2027 CAREER DBER: The Role of Internal Attention in Undergraduate Biology Learning. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
2021-2025 Fostering Computational Thinking Through Neural Engineering Activities in High School Biology Classes. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
2022-2026 Utilizing Neurophysiological Measures to Better Understand and Improve Engagement and Learning with Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
2022-2027 Brain Healthy: Engaging Students in Citizen Science Brain Health and Wellness Investigations to Promote Data Science Literacy. Funded by the National Institutes of Health.
2022 International Mind, Brain, and Education Society, Early Career Award
2022 National Science Foundation, Faculty Early Career Development Award
2017 Society for Neuroscience, Next Generation Award