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Professor of Educational Psychology, The Ohio State University

Dr. Tzu-Jung Lin is a Professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University. She received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and a master's degree in Applied Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Her research centers on understanding classroom social dynamics and how classroom instruction can be carefully designed to enhance the quality of learning and development. She was a National Academy of Education/Spencer postdoctoral fellows in 2016-2017, during which she designed and implemented an innovative collaborative small-group discussion approach called Collaborative Social Reasoning (CSR) to promote students’ interpersonal and academic competencies. The fruitful and promising findings from the CSR project inspired her and her colleagues to design the Digital Civic Learning (DCL) curriculum. She has published articles in high-ranked journals such as the Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Child Development, Learning and Instruction, Cognition and Instruction, and British Journal of Educational Psychology.

She is an editorial board of the Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and Reading and Writing.