Julie L. Booth, Ph.D.

Julie L. Booth, Ph.D. is a Professor of STEM Education and Educational Psychology at Temple University. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University and trained as a post-doctoral fellow at the NSF-funded Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. Dr. Booth is currently PI or co-PI on two federally-funded projects; this includes the IES-funded GeometryByExample project (in collaboration with the Strategic Education Research Partnership) in which she leads the scientific effort to develop and test error-based assignments through close collaboration with classroom teachers. She previously served as PI or Co-PI on eight other federally-funded projects. As a result, Dr. Booth has amassed considerable experience leading scientific research projects, developing instructional interventions, conducting classroom studies, leading teams in collecting, coding, and entering large amounts of classroom data, and analyzing quantitative data, including analyzing longitudinal classroom data using Multi-level Modeling approaches. She has been published in a wide variety of scholarly (Science, Child Development, Learning and Instruction), practitioner (Mathematics Teacher, Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, Perspectives on Language and Literacy), and policy outlets (Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences). She was the recipient of the 2016-2017 Linking Research and Practice Publication Award from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.