Katherine McEldoon, Ph.D.
Katherine is a research-to-practice connector. A cognitive and learning scientist by training, Katherine has worked across academia, government, and industry to ensure the best scientific insights support student learning, no matter the context. Katherine served as lead learning scientist in Pearson’s Efficacy & Learning division, where she led the creation of Pearson’s Learning Design Principles — a scalable, research-informed toolkit used to design and evaluate digital learning products.
She holds a BA in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from University of Rochester, a MS and PhD in Psychology & Human Development from Vanderbilt University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Arizona State University where she scaled up the ICAP Framework across area middle and high schools.