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Carole Beal directs the K12@USC project. Dr. Beal joined ISI in 2004 after 20 years as a tenured professor of educational psychology. She is now a full-time researcher integrating educational psychology and artificial intelligence to create innovative instructional technology. Her projects emphasize the evaluation of learning systems in realistic educational delivery settings: public school classrooms and informal learning situations in the urban Southern California area, with its rich ethnic, economic and linguistic diversity.

Beal is a subject matter expert on gender and STEM learning, reflected in her research on gender and ethnic differences in mathematics learning, and also in her book on gender roles and development (Beal, 1994). Dr. Beal served as the Associate Editor of Journal of Educational Psychology, the leading journal in the area, for five years, and is a member of the editorial board.