Research & Theory Division Awards
List of RTD Awards
Congratulations 2023 RTD Award Winners!
Organized by Dr.Heather Leary, RTD Past-President
Outstanding Theoretical Journal Article Award: Enilda Romero-Hall (University of Tennessee)
Title: Navigating the Instructional Design Field as an Afro-Latinx Woman: A Feminist Autoethnography
Outstanding Empirical Journal Article Award: Kei Tomita (Kennesaw State University)
Title: Visual Design as a Holistic Experience: How Students’ Emotional Responses to the Visual design of Instructional Materials are Formed
Outstanding Book Award: Paul A. Kirschner, Carl Hendrick, and Jim Heal (Open University of the Netherlands; Wellington College; Academica University of Applied Sciences)
Title: How Teaching Happens: Seminal Works in Teaching and Teacher Effectiveness and What They Mean in Practice
Yu-Ju (Sharon) Lin (Purdue University)
Professional Development Coordinator Elect (2020-2021)
Professional Development Coordinator (2021-2022)
Past Professional Development Coordinator (2022-2023)
Heather Leary (Brigham Young University)
President Elect (2020-2021)
President (2021-2022)
Past President (2022-2023)
Outstanding RTD Accepted Proposal Award: Chen Feng, Zixi Li, and Xiaoying Zheng, and Curtis Bonk (Indianna University Bloomington)
Title: Investigating the Self-Directed Learning Process in Argentine Tango Learning
Outstanding RTD Accepted Student Proposal Award: Jie (Jennifer) Lu and Matthew Schmidt (University of Florida)
Title: Challenging the Status Quo of Usability Research: Examining the Constructs and Psychometric Properties in Existing Instruments
Jiangmei Yuan - West Virginia University
Yu-Ju Lin - Purdue University
Secil Caskurlu - Florida State University
Theory Competition Award: Angel Morgan (Arizona State University)
Title: Learning Design and Technology Through the Lens of Intersectional Ecological Theory
Congratulations 2022 RTD Award Winners!
Organized by Dr. Feng-Ru Sheu, RTD Past-President
Outstanding Theoretical Journal Article Award: Richard H. Swan, Kenneth J. Plummer, & Richard E. West (Brigham Young University)
Toward functional expertise through formal education: identifying an opportunity for higher education
Published in Educational Technology Research and Development (2020)
Outstanding Empirical Journal Article Award: Haesol Bae, Krista Glazewski, Thomas Brush, & Kyungbin Kwon (Indiana University-Bloomington)
Title: Fostering Transfer of Responsibility in the Middle School PBL Classroom: An Investigation of Soft Scaffolding
Published in Instructional Science (2021)
Qualitative Inquiry Award: Bret Willet (Florida State University)
Title: Early career teachers’ expansion of professional learning networks with social media
Published in Professional Development in Education (2023)
Ismahan Arslan-Ari (University of South Carolina)
Professional Development Coordinator Elect (2019-2020)
Professional Development Coordinator (2020-2021)
Past Professional Development Coordinator (2021-2022)
Feng-Ru Sheu (Kent State University)
President-Elect (2019-2020)
President (2020-2021)
Past President (2021-2022)
Outstanding Research & Theory Division - Sponsored Accepted Proposal: Emma Agola & Tian Luo (Old Dominion University)
Title: The Effect of Digital Badging on Workplace Self-Directed e-Learning
Outstanding Research & Theory Division - Sponsored Accepted Student Proposal: Rui (Tammy) Huang & Matthew Schmidt (University of Florida)
Title: Theory-informed Digital Game-based Interventions for Students’ Language Learning Outcomes: A Systematic Review
Congratulations 2020 RTD Award Winners!
Organized by Dr. Ginger Watson, RTD Past-President
Dean and Sybil McClusky Research Award: Hamid Nadir (Indiana University Bloomington)
Title: Investigating a Teacher’s Scaffolding for Design Problem Solving in Project-based Learning
Outstanding Theoretical Journal Article Award: David Devraj Kumar (Florida Atlantic University)
Title: Analysis of an Interactive Technology Supported Problem-Based Learning STEM Project Using Selected Learning Sciences Interest Areas (SLSIA)
Published in the International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology (2017)
Outstanding Empirical Journal Article Award: Min Kyu Kim (Georgia State University ) & Tuba Ayer Ketenci (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Title: Learner Participation Profiles in An Asynchronous Online Collaboration Context
Published in The Internet and Higher Education (2019)
Young Researcher Award: Yingxiao Qian (Arizona State University)
Title: Effectiveness of Explicit Guidance and Practices on Abstraction (EGPA): Focusing on Computational Tasks in a STEM-integrative Robotic Education Program
E-Ling Hsiao (Valdosta State University)
Communication Officer (2008-2011)
President-Elect Designate, President-Elect, President, Immediate Past President (2014-2017)
Division Representative to the AECT Board (2017-2020)
Ginger S. Watson (University of Virginia)
Professional Development Coordinator (2015-2016)
Past-Professional Development Coordinator (2016-2017)
President-Elect (2017-2018)
President (2018-2019)
Past-President (2019-2020)
Heather Leary (Brigham Young University)
Professional Development Coordinator Elect (2017-2018)
Professional Development Coordinator (2018-2019)
Past-Professional Development Coordinator (2019-2020)
Outstanding Accepted Proposal Award: Katherine Chartier (Purdue University)
Title: The Development of the Instructional Design Dispositions and Expertise Index