Biography
Valery Vigil is a doctoral student in the School of Education specializing in Teaching, Learning, and Educational Improvement (TLEI). She received her B.S. in Psychological and Brain Sciences with minors in Applied Psychology and Educational Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara. As an undergraduate, Valery explored multimedia learning and engagement of STEM topics in online learning environments under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Mayer and Dr. Andrew Stull.
At UC Irvine, Valery is currently working on the Converse to Learn project under her advisor, Professor Mark Warschauer. As a first-year doctoral student, she was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her proposal: "Innovations in Artificial Intelligence: Promoting Latinx Children’s Science Learning and Engagement with a Bilingual Conversational Agent." Through this work, Valery hopes to explore how young children can learn through social interactions with conversational agents while watching STEM topic television shows. She is particularly interested in how parent-child interactions during co-viewings of these educational programs can impact child learning outcomes and engagement.
March 2021
Valery Vigil is a doctoral student in the School of Education specializing in Teaching, Learning, and Educational Improvement (TLEI). She received her B.S. in Psychological and Brain Sciences with minors in Applied Psychology and Educational Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara. As an undergraduate, Valery explored multimedia learning and engagement of STEM topics in online learning environments under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Mayer and Dr. Andrew Stull.
At UC Irvine, Valery is currently working on the Converse to Learn project under her advisor, Professor Mark Warschauer. As a first-year doctoral student, she was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her proposal: "Innovations in Artificial Intelligence: Promoting Latinx Children’s Science Learning and Engagement with a Bilingual Conversational Agent." Through this work, Valery hopes to explore how young children can learn through social interactions with conversational agents while watching STEM topic television shows. She is particularly interested in how parent-child interactions during co-viewings of these educational programs can impact child learning outcomes and engagement.
March 2021
