EDUCATION  Harvard Graduate School of Education.  Doctorate in Education, Human Development & Psychology department.  Cambridge, MA.  November 1997.  Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Masters of Science, Mechanical engineering department.  Cambridge, MA. February 1992.

Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Masters of Education, Educational Technology.
Cambridge, MA. June 1988.

 Rutgers Graduate School of Education.
Masters of Education, Writing, English Education.
New Brunswick, NJ. June 1987.

Rutgers College.
Bachelor of Arts, English.
New Brunswick, NJ. May 1973.

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
‹ Research Scientist and PI Oct 1997 - present
Currently PI on the Design in the Science Classroom ­
Professional Development project, developing interactive multimedia materials for middle-school science teachers, and funded by National Science Foundation. Had developed, tested and researched, with others who make up the Learning for Design team, headed by Dr. Janet Kolodner, a paper-based middle-school curriculum that joins science, technology, and pre-engineering themes.

TERC, Cambridge, MA ‹Principal Investigator, Project Director Mar 1993 - June 97
Co-PD, Project Director, Principal Investigator and developer of
curriculum for the NSF-funded Technology for Science project. Manage curriculum writers, evaluators and write print-based physical science and physics curriculum that integrates design challenges and technology investigations in teaching key science ideas.

LEARNING SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

MIT, Cambridge, MA ‹ Research Assistant
Nov 1989 - Jan 1992
Consult and then do research assistance for Profs. David Gordon Wilson and Woodie Flowers of MIT ME department. Help develop content, program, and conduct evaluation of interactive multimedia system program on engineering design that won the 1996 Mass. Interactive Media Council¹s first prize in higher ed. titles.

Harvard Project Zero, Cambridge, MA ‹ Research Assistant
Oct 1987 - July 91
Research Assistant for David Perkins at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, investigating cognitive psychology and educational issues.  Develop and evaluate software entitled "Fraction Visualizer" for disadvantaged seventh-grade students under Ford Foundation grant.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND CONTRIBUTED TALKS

Crismond, David. "Learning and Using Ideas when Doing
Investigate-and-Redesign Tasks: A study of naïve, novice and expert designers doing constrained and scaffolded work" Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 38 (7), pg. 791-820.

Crismond, David. 1997. Investigate-and-Redesign Tasks as a Context for Learning and Doing Science and Technology: A study of naïve, novice, and expert high school and adult designers doing product comparison and redesign tasks. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Perkins, D.N., Crismond, D., Simmons, B., and Unger, C. 1995. "Inside Understanding" in Software Goes to School, eds. David N. Perkins, J. M. Schwartz, Mary Maxwell West, Martha Stone Wiske. New York: Oxford University Press.

Crismond, David. "Teaching Physical Science Through Design
Challenges" Invited session on Technology Education. 1993 AAPT Summer Meeting, Boise State University, Boise, ID. August 1993.
 

www.Crismond.com