Research Focus
Sheri Berkeley is a Professor in the Division of Special Education and disability Research at George Mason University. She earned her Ph.D. from George Mason in 2007. Her dissertation study that investigated self-regulation and reading comprehension outcomes for secondary students with learning disabilities was awarded both the Outstanding Achievement and Academic Excellence for PhD in Education Award from the Graduate School of Education at George Mason and the Award for Outstanding Doctoral Level Research from the Division of Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children.
Currently, she is the principal investigator on a multi-year, cross-disciplinary NSF project (DRL-1420448, $813,329) investigating the self-regulation of students with learning disabilities during a project-based science activity, and a supplemental Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant ($11,534) to foster undergraduate interest in research careers related to STEM. In the project, students with learning disabilities are taught strategies to foster self-regulation of learning while developing a Serious Educational Game that demonstrates their knowledge of advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy sources. Contemporary approaches to measuring self-regulation processes are being utilized as well as novel approaches to data collection. Findings are expected to increase foundational knowledge of how to best foster self-regulation of science learning for students with learning disabilities
