Hamideh Talafian

For More Information

• Illinois Physics and Secondary School Partnership Program

Education

• Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Learning Technologies (STEM concentration) -2020

Selected Articles in Journals

• Talafian, H., Lundsgaard, M., Mahmood, M., Shafer, D., Stelzer, T. J., & Kuo, E. (2025). Responsive Professional Development: A Facilitation Approach for Teachers' Development in a Physics Teaching Community of Practice. Teaching and Teacher Education. 153, 104812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2024.104812
• Talafian, H., Lundsgaard, M., Mahmood, M., Kuo, E & Stelzer, T. J. (2025). Teachers Experiences with Taking an Open-ended Approach in Teaching Labs in High school Physics Classes. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 21 (1), 010140. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.21.010140
• Mahmood, M. S., Talafian, H., Shafer, D., Kuo, E., Lundsgaard, M., & Stelzer, T. (2024). Navigating socio-emotional risk through comfort-building in physics teacher professional development: A case study. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21949
• Kang, H., Talafian, H., & Tschida, P. (2023). Expanding opportunities to learn in secondary science classrooms using unconventional forms of classroom assessments. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 60(5), 1053-1091. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21824
• Shah, M., Foster, A., Talafian, H., Barany, A., & Petrovich Jr, M. E. (2021). Facilitating and interpreting high school students’ identity exploration trajectories in STEM. The Journal of Experimental Education, 89(3), 541-559. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2020.1808941
• Talafian, H., Moy, M., Woodard, M., & Foster, A. (2019)*. Easley Summer Space Camp: An Immersive Environment for STEM Identity Exploration. Journal of STEM Education Research. 2 (2), 105-127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41979-019-00018-7
• Talafian, H., Galoyan, T., Hammrich, P. L., & Lamberson, L. (2019)*. Experiential Learning in a Summer Camp: Engaging Undergraduate Students in STEM Research Experience. Summer Academe: A Journal of Higher Education, 12. https://summeracademe.org/articles/abstract/114/
• Foster, A., Shah, M., Barany, A., & Talafian, H. (2019). High-school Students’ Role Playing for Identity Exploration: Findings from Virtual City Planning. Information and Learning Sciences, 12 (9-10), 640-662. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-03-2019-0026

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• Talafian, H., Shaffer, D., Mahmood, M., Kuo, E., Stelzer, T., & Lundsgaard, M. (2024). Developing a responsive professional development (RPD) survey for high school physics teachers. In Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference (PERC).
• Talafian, H., & Ansell, K. (2023). Characterizing the complexities of experimental decision-making in an introductory lab practical. In Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference (PERC) (pp.362-367).
• Talafian, H., & Kang, H. (2022). Modeling Students’ Performances in Physics Assessment Tasks Using Epistemic Network Analysis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography (pp. 285-298). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
• Hobbs, W., Talafian, H., and Zorgo, S. (2020). Challenges and Solutions to Examining Twitter Data: Reflections from QE-COVID19 Data Challenge. In Ruis, A.R., and Lee, S. B. (Eds.). (2020). Second International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography: Conference Proceedings Supplement. Malibu, CA: The Society for Quantitative Ethnography.
• Talafian, H. (2019). Developing STEM Career Identity among Minoritized Middle Schoolers in an Informal Learning Environment: A Mixed-methods Study. In Eagan, B., Misfeldt, M., and Siebert-Evenstone, A. (Eds.). (2019). First International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography: Conference Proceedings Supplement. Madison, WI: The Society for Quantitative Ethnography.
• Barany, A., Talafian, H., Shah, M. & Foster, A. (2019). Learning as Identity Change in Augmented Virtual Learning Environments. Abstract published in the Proceedings of 18th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) Conference, 12-16 August 2019, Aachen, Germany.
• Foster, A. Shah, M. Petrovich, Jr. M. E. Barany, A., & Talafian, H. (2019). Leveraging Theoretical and Methodological Innovations for Supporting Learners to Explore and Reconstruct their Identity. Abstract published in the Proceedings of 18th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) Conference, 12-16 August 2019, Aachen, Germany.
• Talafian, H., Shah, M., Barany, A., & Foster, A. (2019). Promoting and Tracing High School Students’ Identity Change in an Augmented Virtual Learning Environment. Paper published in the A Wide Lens: Combining Embodied, Enactive, Extended, and Embedded Learning in Collaborative Settings, 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), June 17-21, 2019, Lyon, France.
• Talafian, H., Barany, A., Petrovich, M., Shah, M., & Foster, A. (2019). Facilitating and Tracing Identity Change in Augmented Virtual Learning Environments. In K. Graziano (Ed). Conference proceedings of the 30th International Conference for the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), Las Vegas, NV.
• Barany, A., Talafian, H., Petrovich, M., Shah, M., & Foster, A. (2019). Tracking Identity Exploration Trajectories in Game-based Learning. In K. Graziano (Ed). Conference proceedings of the 30th International Conference for the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), Las Vegas, NV.
• Talafian, H., Hammrich, P. (2018). Teachers’ Perceptions of Using Simulations in STEM. Paper published in the Conference Proceeding of Learning Sciences Graduate Students (LSGS) Conference.
• Talafian, H., Shah, M., Foster, A. (2018). Analyzing Big Data Using Quantitative Ethnography. Paper published in the Conference Proceeding of Learning Sciences Graduate Students (LSGS) Conference.
• Talafian, H., Galoyan, T., Hammrich, P. (2018). Engaging Undergraduate Students in Experiential Learning Opportunities. Paper published in the Conference Proceeding of 7th Annual STEM Forum and Expo hosted by NSTA.