Research
I graduated from Portland State University with my PhD in Mathematics Education. I defended my dissertation in 2023, and my committee was co-chaired by Eva Thanheiser and Jennifer Noll. I am currently collaborating on one active NSF grant led by Jennifer Noll on modeling and simulation using TinkerPlots, and I am currently planning on a future proposal to develop modern modeling and simulation software that integrates with R and assess student reasoning using this technology.
Undergraduate Research
I'm interested in working with undergraduate students at the University of Illinois on education-focused research projects. Despite being in a statistics department, the majority of my work is qualitative in nature rather than quantitative. If you are interested in being part of a project, especially if you are a statistics major and qualify for URES, please reach out!
Note: I will likely only take on 1-2 projects at most at any given time, so I may not be available to work with you. Additionally, if you send me an email about research interests that are not my focus (e.g. machine learning, LLM models, statistical analysis, etc.), you likely won't get a response at all from me, as I will assume you are email-blasting our entire department without checking anyone's specific research interests.
The nature of qualitative research makes it difficult to complete a meaningful project within the span of 1 semester. Thus, if you are interested in working on a research project, this is roughly the process I would follow:
- Semseter 1: read existing statistics education research literature and discuss that work with me. Through reading the literature, we can hopefully find a project that is interesting to you and is a meaningful contribution to statistics education.
- End of Sem 1 or beginning of Sem 2: Design study (e.g. build interview protocol, set up Qualtrics survey) and conduct data collection.
- Semester 2: Analyze the data and work on presentations for URES and undergraduate research symposium.
Undergraduate Projects:
- Spring 2025: Huang, Elen and Thorell, Luke: Title TBD.
Publications and Presentations:
- Clement, K. (2013, Jan 9-12). Hyperbananas: A Family of Flexible Frameworks [Poster presentation]. Joint Math Meetings, San Diego, CA, United States.
- Clement, K., Lee-St. John, A., and Sidman, J. (2013). Hyperbanana Graphs. Proceedings of 25th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, 199-204.
- Gunderson, B. and Clement, K. (2015, May 28-30). Using Problem Roulette to Encourage Student Connections with Course Content in Introductory Statistics [Poster presentation]. United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, State College, PA, United States.
- Noll, J., Clement, K., Dolor, J. and Petersen, M. (2017, Jul 2-8). Students’ use of narrative when constructing statistical models in TinkerPlots. [Paper presentation] International Collaboration for Research on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy, Rotorua, New Zealand.
- Clement, K. (2017). Context and Variability: How Data Context Shapes Preservice Teachers Conceptions of Variability. Proceedings of the 39th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 1074.
- Noll, J., Clement, K., Dolor, J. and Petersen, M. (2018). Students’ use of narrative when constructing statistical models in TinkerPlots. ZDM: the international journal on mathematics education, 50(7), 1267-1280.
- Noll, J., Clement, K., Dolor, J. and Petersen, M. (2018, July 8-13). Students Statistical Modeling Activities Using TinkerPlots. [Paper presentation] 10th International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Kyoto, Japan.
- Zieffler, A., Huberty, M., Dolor, J., Clement, K. and Noll, J. (2019, May 16-18). Evidence and uncertainty: a modeling and simulation-based approach to statistical inference [Workshop]. United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, State College, PA, United States.
- Noll, J., Kirin, D., Clement, K., and Dolor, J. (2019). Students’ emerging statistical modeling stories as they invent and evaluate TinkerPlots models for comparing two groups. [Paper presentation] International Collaboration for Research on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
- Noll, J., Kirin, D., Clement, K., and Dolor, J. (2021). Revealing students’ stories as they construct and use a statistical model in TinkerPlots to conduct a randomization test for comparing two groups. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 25(1), 44-63.
- Clement, K. (2023). Identifying Advantages to Teaching Linear Regression in a Modeling and Simulation Introductory Statistics Curriculum (Publication No. 30523366). ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
- Clement, K. (2024, June 10-13). Linear Regression and Lines of Best Fit in the CATALST Curriculum. Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics.