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Asst Prof Amelia Yeo
Assistant Professor, National Institute of Education - Psychology and Child & Human Development
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Amelia Yeo is an assistant professor with the Psychology, and Child & Human Development (PCHD) department at the National Institute of Education (NIE), an institute within Nanyang Technological University. Amelia obtained her B.Soc.Sci (Psychology) from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and earned her PhD (Psychology) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience program. At UW-Madison, she also worked on various projects at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research on the topics of mathematical encoding and problem solving, instructional avatars, teacher attitudes and instructional gestures.
Her research has examined gesture production in bilinguals, gestural effects on learning, visual attention to hand movements, and the role of expectation in communication. Her work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, as well as in peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Her work is also highly interdisciplinary, crossing the fields of cognitive science, embodied cognition, psycholinguistics and education.
She currently serves as the honorary secretary of the Educational Research Association of Singapore (ERAS), the assistant head (graduate programmes by coursework) for PCHD, and the Evaluation research lead at the Centre for Assessment & Evaluation (CAE) in NIE.
Her research has examined gesture production in bilinguals, gestural effects on learning, visual attention to hand movements, and the role of expectation in communication. Her work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, as well as in peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Her work is also highly interdisciplinary, crossing the fields of cognitive science, embodied cognition, psycholinguistics and education.
She currently serves as the honorary secretary of the Educational Research Association of Singapore (ERAS), the assistant head (graduate programmes by coursework) for PCHD, and the Evaluation research lead at the Centre for Assessment & Evaluation (CAE) in NIE.
Amelia's main research interest lies in the production and comprehension of messages between individuals multimodally, through the use of hand gestures that occur with speech. Her interests also include the impact of gestures on learning in children and adults, multimodal communication in bilinguals, embodied cognition and tech, social aspects of gestures, and translating findings from cognition research to useful educational practices for the promotion of learning and well-being.
- Learning Buddy - Gen-AI Platform to Facilitate Self-regulated Learning via Self-Assessment
- Harnessing Positive Psychology Principles in Fostering Academic Motivation/Engagement and Wellbeing of Low-Progress Learners in Singapore
- Gesture effects on comprehension as a function of language proficiency
- Examining engineering design principles as problem-solving strategies to promote 21st-century skills in primary school settings
- The AI-Powered Classroom: Transforming Teaching and Learning at Initial Teacher Education
Awards
2023 NIE Excellence in Service Award (Team)
2022 Inauguration Grant Award (MOE START)
2022 Inauguration Grant Award (MOE START)
Courses Taught
MDP906/MPM904 Personality and attitude assessment (Semester 1 & 2)
MPM911 Applied regression analysis (Semester 1)
MDP912 Gestures in learning and development: theory, research, practice (Semester 1)
AED10A/QED50/52A Educational psychology
AED20D/QED50/52N Assessing Learning & Performance
Guest lectures in:
MDP905 Individual differences and learning
MSoL905 Assessment & the Science of Learning
MPM911 Applied regression analysis (Semester 1)
MDP912 Gestures in learning and development: theory, research, practice (Semester 1)
AED10A/QED50/52A Educational psychology
AED20D/QED50/52N Assessing Learning & Performance
Guest lectures in:
MDP905 Individual differences and learning
MSoL905 Assessment & the Science of Learning