Dr Esther Chan

BA (Psych. and Crim.), GradDipSci (Psych.), MEdPsych, PhD
Dr Esther Chan is a Lecturer in the Educational Psychology Programs and an Educational and Developmental Psychologist. Dr Chan is interested in the knowledge construction process involved in research and in teaching and educational psychological practices. Her work focuses on understanding the role that research discourse plays in the day-to-day professional practice and learning of teachers and educational and developmental psychologists. She has extensive research experience having worked on multiple Australian Government funded national and international projects on student wellbeing and achievement, early literacy assessment, school retention, collaborative problem-solving (The Social Unit of Learning project), and professional learning of mathematics teachers (Learning from Lessons project). Dr Chan is currently leading a project investigating teacher in-the-moment decision making using classroom video research methodology and computer assisted quantitative analysis (multimodal learning analytics) involving collaborators from the University of Melbourne, RMIT, and New York University.