Karla Renee Hamlen Mansour (Karla Hamlen), Ph.D.
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 Title: Professor
 Dept: Curriculum & Foundations
 Office: JH 388
 Phone: 216-687-4610
 Email: K.HAMLEN@csuohio.edu
 Address: 2121 Euclid Ave. JH 388, Cleveland, OH 44115

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Research Keywords:
Video games, digital games, learning strategies in games, creativity, ethics in technology, Children's media, children's television, Computer Science education, quantitative methods, statistics, research methods, media psychology
 
Education:
Ph.D., Educational Psychology, SUNY Buffalo, 2008
M.Ed., Music Education, SUNY Buffalo
B.M.E., Music Education, Wheaton College
 
Brief Bio:
Dr. Karla Hamlen Mansour is a Professor of Research and Assessment in the department of Curriculum and Foundations. She earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the director of the Research in Education and Human Services Master's program and three advanced graduate certificates: Data-Based Decision Making, Program Evaluation in Educational and Youth-Serving Organizations, and Data Analytics in Education. She also teaches quantitative methods and statistics in the doctoral program and serves on dissertation committees. With background in music education and mathematics, Dr. Hamlen has taught K-12 general music, elementary instrumental music, and junior high mathematics in schools both in South America and the United States.
Twitter: @HamlenKarla
 
Honors and Awards:
APA Fellow, Division 46
 
Research Interests:
Research interests are children's media uses, choices and strategies in video games, and ways in which these relate to general learning strategies, academic ethics, creativity, and problem-solving styles in children and young adults. Additionally, she engages in research surrounding Computer Science and Engineering education, equitable opportunities for all, and relationships between these studies and other cognitive and academic outcomes.
 
Teaching Areas:
Educational Research Methods and Statistics, Data-Driven Decision Making, Assessment
 
Professional Affiliations:
American Psychological Association
Association for Computing Machinery
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
 
University Service:
Current:
Faculty Senate
Director of Educational Research Program, Curriculum and Foundations Dept

Previous:
Admissions and Standards Committee, Chair
COEHS Faculty Affairs, Chair
Grade Dispute Committee
Graduate Council
COEHS Executive Council
Graduate Student Awards Committee
Doctoral Studies Committee, COEHS
Interim Director of Doctoral Studies in Urban Education
 
Professional Service:
Treasurer of APA Division 46
Member of editorial board for APA journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture
Reviewer for journals: Computers & Education, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Educational Computing Research, Developmental Psychology
 
Community Service:
Statistics Without Borders
 
Research Grants:
Zhu, Y., Liu, X., Wang, H., Hamlen Mansour, K. (2018-2020). SaTC: EDU: Game-Based Cyber Security Education on Anonymous Communication. Funded by NSF: $299,977.

Chu, P. (PI), Hamlen, K., & Yu, C. (co-PIs) (2015-2018). A spiral computing engineering lab framework. Funded by NSF: $245,373.

Misra, S., Hamlen, K., Jackson, D., Simon, E., Sridhar, N. (2013-2017). CE21: Type I: Engaging Teachers in Computing Education for the Next-Generation Workforce. Funded by NSF: $1,000,000.00.

Hamlen, K. (2013). Learning from problem-solving styles in video games and in academics. CSU Faculty Scholarship Initiative. Funded: $4,635.00.