Rebecca Cheng, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Rebecca Cheng is an educational psychologist and received her Ph.D. (cognitive psychology & learning sciences) at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. Her major research interests focus on user experience/engagement design and science learning in virtual environments, Serious Games, and other informal contexts (both physical and digital), emphasis on cognitive processes, positive emotions, and individual differences. She had worked as an environmental educator at a zoo and aquarium in Hong Kong for eight years and has extensive experience in managing and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive the execution of multiple projects. As a female educationist with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology (major in Ecology), Rebecca is devoted to encourage, inspire, and empower other women to actively partake in the challenging and male-dominated STEM fields. She is dedicated to examining the role of game-based informal contexts in science learning, interest development in STEM career, and self-directed lifelong learning. Her doctoral investigation was applying a cogntive-affective integrated framework of cognitive psychology to examine gameplay process and science learning through eye-tracking and scanpath analysis.

Listed skills include Informal Education, Qualitative Research, Teaching, Science, and 13 others.