Kancong (Silvia) Liu

RESEARCH ASSISTANT,  09/2023 to Present

Computational Cognitive Development Lab, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

• Annotate and categorize children’s actions in videos where they were provided with different instructions to explore the playsets
• Present at weekly meetings with research team members to share possible hypotheses for exploratory data analysis and raise questions about coding to arrive at consensus

RESEARCH ASSISTANT,  01/2023 to Present

Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED), Boston University, Boston, MA

• Completed the training to use Computerized Language ANalysis (CLAN) software to transcribe and EUDICO Linguistic Annotator (ELAN) to annotate videos
• Used CLAN and ELAN to annotate and time stamp transcriptions of verbal interactions between teachers and dual language learners in the context of a project about the influence of a conversation-based intervention, Conversation Compass, on classroom interactions
• Conduct literature review and annotation of articles that use diverse assessments of classroom dimensions, such as peer interaction and child engagement, to empirically examine the most optimal tools that capture individual differences in preschool classrooms

NON-PROFIT RESEARCH INTERN, 10/2022 to 12/2022

School The World, Boston, MA   

• Worked with the Founder & CEO on research projects that varied from education organizations, educational technologies (such as learning passport), international development, and media outlets
• Gained insights into the impact of various learning contexts, such as different countries and cultures, on the design of learning experiences

ONLINE FAMILY EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR INTERN, 06/2021 to 08/2021

Beijing Xiaobu Dacheng Technology Co., Ltd., Chengdu, China 

• Helped families with their parenting and advised them to improve parental accompaniment through DEEP (Dynamic Early Education from Palo-Alto) courses, which focus on playful learning activities
• Summarized the whole series of DEEP courses tailored for children aged 0 to 3 for the parents' reference

Literacy Block, Spring 2022

• Led a group to design a literacy block unit including word study, comprehension, and vocabulary lessons
• Followed the gradual release of responsibility model to plan the instructions, from teacher modeling to guided practice and independent practice
• Incorporated an overarching social justice theme of hair identities and integrated SMART Board as an educational technology to enhance students' learning

Econometric Empirical Project, Fall 2021

• Used Stata to develop simple and multiple regression models to examine the impact of educational attainment and other variables on unemployment duration