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Olusola Adesope | |
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| Born | Ibadan, Nigeria |
| Spouse | Tolu |
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| Education | M.Sc., 2005, PhD., 2010, Simon Fraser University |
| Thesis | The cognitive effects of verbal redundancy and animated concept maps on learning. (2010) |
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| Institutions | Washington State University |
Olusola O. Adesope is the Boeing Distinguished Professor of STEM Education and Professor of Educational Psychology at Washington State University.
Adesope was born and raised in Ibadan,Nigeria. [1] He first left Nigeria for the United States and worked as an IT Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He then immigrated to Canada in 2003 with his wife Tolu and enrolled at Simon Fraser University (SFU). [2] At SFU,he earned his Master's degree in educational technology and his doctorate degree in educational psychology. [1] In 2011,he received the G.M. Dunlop Award for best doctoral thesis in educational psychology completed at a Canadian university. [3]
In 2010,Adesope joined the faculty of Educational Psychology at Washington State University. [4] He received the TICL Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award two years later from the American Educational Research Association. [5] He also conducted a study with researchers at Simon Fraser University which found that one-on-one computer-based tutoring was more effective than traditional teacher-based instruction when used on larger class sizes. [6]
In 2017,Adesope was appointed to a second term on the editorial board of the Review of Educational Research journal. [7] He was also promoted to the Boeing Distinguished Professor of STEM Education. [8] In this role,he collaborated with Kripa Sundar to research how “seductive details”could deter learning in the classroom. [9]
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