Kristin Chisholm

Kristin Chisholm is a doctoral student in the School of Education at the University of Delaware, specializing in STEM education and Program Evaluation. Her research examines STEM Ecosystems, teacher preparation, and the role of community partnerships in advancing equitable and effective approaches to teaching and learning. She is particularly interested in how educational decisions are made and how research evidence can be developed and inform practice in STEM learning contexts.

Prior to her doctoral studies, Chisholm spent eight years teaching high school math and science, during which she also coached a student robotics team. At the University of Delaware, she has taught science methods courses, contributed to collaborative research projects, and developed her own independent scholarship. Her work bridges classroom teaching experience with community-based research, with the goal of strengthening how students build meaningful connections to science. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics Secondary Education, an M.Ed. in Educational Research, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Educational Statistics and Research Methods. In Fall 2025, she will complete the Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation, a program that prepares students to apply evaluation models and methods in alignment with the American Evaluation Association’s guiding principles and competencies.

Education

• B.S., Education, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2025
• B.S., Math-Secondary Education, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, 2011

Publications

• Curtiss, Sarah Louise, Julie K. Snipes, and Kristin Spangler Chisholm. “Verse and voice: A guide for poetic inquiry in transformative educational research.” Qualitative Research (2025): 14687941251350886.

• Rutherford, Teomara, Andrew Rodrigues, Santiago Duque-Baird, Sotheara Veng, Rosa Mykyta-Chomsky, Yiqin Cao, Kristin Chisholm, and Ekaterina Bergwall. ““I just think it is the way of the future”: Teachers’ use of ChatGPT to develop motivationally-supportive math lessons.” Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence 8 (2025): 100367.

Presentations

• Chisholm, K., & Zeng, Y. (2025, June). Leveraging photolithography and integrated circuits to foster electrical engineering identity and values in K-12 learners. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.
• Rutherford, T., Rodriques, A., Veng, S., Cao, Y., Duque-Baird, S., Bergwall, E., Mykya-Chomsky, R. J., & Chisholm, K. (2025, April). Generative AI assistance for lesson planning to support positive student mathematics motivation and emotions. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
• Chisholm, K., Vang, S., Asif, S.-A., Cao, Y., Powell, B., Shen, C.-C., & Rutherford, T. (2025, April). Empowering teens in metaverse cybersecurity: A culturally responsive, participatory design approach. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
• Asif, S. A., Cao, Y., Veng, S., Chisholm, K., Patt, R. (posthumous), Rutherford, T., Mouza, C., & Shen, C.-C. (2025, March). AugmentWall: An AR firewall game for concretizing cybersecurity concepts and examining student engagement, learning, and motivation. IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), Princeton, NJ.