Office Location:
322I ThmpsOffice Hours:
Mondays 2:30-4:00 pm, Thursdays 5:00-6:30 pmTC Affiliations:
Educational Background
Ed.D in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education, University of Pennsylvania
M.S.Ed in Learning Sciences and Technologies, University of Pennsylvania
B.S. in Educational Technology, Andong National University
Scholarly Interests
Learning Sciences, STEM, Agency and Action
Selected Publications
Yoon, S. A., Shim, J., Zhange, W., Leung, V., & Nguyen, Z. (2025). Epistemic emotions and their triggering of further epistemic engagement in a socioscientific high school unit on bioinformatics and air quality. In Kyza, E. A. & Varda, C. symposium, Exploring the intersection of emotions and epistemic engagement. Publisehd in the proceedings of the International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting 2025.
Shim, J, & Yoon, S. A. (2024). Improving STEM education through resource activation: A study of culturally relevant teaching for critical data literacy in a high school science classroom. Journal of Research in Science, Mathematics and Technology Education. 7(SI), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.31756/jrsmte.311SI
Aldemir, T., Shim, J., & Yoon, S. A. (2024). Empowering voices: Promoting equitable participation in student-inclusive co-design research-practice partnerships. Publisehd in the proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2024. (pp. 466-473). https://doi.org/10.22318/icls2024.589952
Aldemir, T., Shim, J., & Yoon, S. A. (2024). Teachers as co-thinkers and facilitators: Unpacking teacher-student dynamics in co-design partnerships. In Aggül, Y. G. & Horn, I. symposium, Designing participatory teacher learning environments: Inquiries, methods, and perspectives from learning sciences. Publishing in the proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2024. (pp. 1910-1917). https://doi.org/10.22318/icls2024.752026
Yoon, S. A., Shim, J., Leung, V., & Nguyen, Z. (2024). "OMG that's crazy!" Examining the role of high school biology students' epistemic emotions in data investigations of neighborhood air quality. In Miller, K. M. & Polman, J. L symposium, Data and social worlds: How data science education supports civic participation and social discourse. Publisehd in the proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2024. (pp. 1864-1870). https://doi.org/10.22318/icls2024.702524
Shim, J. & Yoon, S. A. (2023). Activating resources for incorporating culturally relevant teaching in STEM curricula. In P. Blikstein, J. V. Aalst, R. Kizito, & K. Brennan (Eds.), Publisehd in the proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2023. (pp. 858-861). https://doi.org/10.22318/icls2023.643529
Shim, J., Noushad, N. F., & Yoon, S. A. (2022). Exploring pedagogical strategies for promoting student epistemic agency through the transfer of cognitive authority in an online science class. In A. Weinberger, W. Chen, D. Hernandez-Leo, & B. Chen (Eds.), Publisehd in the proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2022. (pp. 51-58). https://doi.dx.org/10.22318/cscl2022.51
Noushad, N. F., Shim, J., & Yoon, S. A. (2022). Navigating the conceptual and critical demands of data literacy in high school space using first-hand data. In C. Chinn, E. Tan, B. Chan, & Y. Kali (Eds.), Publisehd in the proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2022. (pp. 195-202). https://dx.doi.org/10.22318/icls2022.195
Yoon, S. A., Shim, J., Miller, K., Cottone, A., Noushad N., Yoo, J., Gonzalez, M. V., Urbanowicz, R., & Himes, B. E. (2022). Professional development for STEM integration: Analyzing bioinformatics teaching through considerations of adaptive expertise and cognitive load. In Teacher Learning in Changing Contexts (pp. 69-90). Routledge. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003097112-6
Shim, J., Yoon, S. A., Cottone, A., & Miller, K. (2021). Two exploratory case studies of teachers’ adaptive expertise in teaching bioinformatics in high school science classrooms. In E. de Vries, Y. Hod, & J. Ahn (Eds.), Publisehd in the proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2021. (pp. 1021-1022). https://repository.isls.org/handle/1/7376
Noushad, N. F., Shim, J., Yoon, S. A., & Cottone, A. M. (2021). Are community relevant PBL supports enough to promote epistemic agency? Exploring variation in epistemic pedagogical practices in science classrooms. In E. de Vries, Y. Hod, & J. Ahn (Eds.), Publisehd in the proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2021. (pp. 211-218). https://repository.isls.org//handle/1/7468
Yoon, S. A., Shim, J., Cottone, A., Himes, B., Urbanowicz, R., & Gonzalez, M. (2020). Embedding environmental justice data literacy curricula in the science classroom: The need for social, cultural, material, and symbolic resource activation. In Matuk, C., & Yoon, S. A. symposium, Data literacy for social justice. Publisehd in the proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2020. https://repository.isls.org/handle/1/6752
Yoon, S. A., Shim, J., & Noushad, N. F. (2019). Trade-offs in using mobile tools to promote scientific action with socioscientific issues. TechTrends, 63(5), 602-610. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-019-00408-z