EDUCATION RESEARCH associate, SRI Education
Sophia Ouyang (she/her) is an education research associate who works on a range of evaluation, design, and technical assistance projects. Her areas of interest include digital learning, continuous improvement, and social-emotional learning. She is skilled at managing complex projects, designing protocols for qualitative data collection, analyzing and presenting data to stakeholders, and creating technical assistance products to support educators.
At SRI, Ouyang serves as the continuous improvement task lead for the Handle With Care project in Metro Nashville and as the project coordinator for the Handle With Care project in Berkeley County, West Virginia. In these roles, she supports educators in using data for continuous improvement through all-day trainings and coaching calls with more than 50 schools across two districts. In addition, Ouyang supports content development for badging pathways for instructors and students as part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Badging ProSkills project in San José, California. She has also supported projects to design and evaluate innovative AI-powered technologies, including a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)-funded collaboration with 2Sigma School to develop a scalable and adaptive personalized computer science instruction system.
Prior to joining SRI, Ouyang taught at a Mandarin immersion school in Washington, DC. She holds an MS in elementary education and teaching from the Johns Hopkins School of Education and a BA in cognitive science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Key projects
- Expanding Handle With Care 2.1
- Preventing School Violence: Expanding Handle With Care in Metro Nashville
- NSF ATE: Badging Professional Skills in CTE Programs
- Using Algorithmic Understanding of Student Comprehension of Computer Science Concepts to Support Teachers with Personalized Student Recommendations (2Sigma II)
