Madeleine Keehner, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist and Chief Consultant,Brighter Research
Madeleine Keehner, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist and Chief Consultant Brighter Research
Madeleine Keehner Bio
Madeleine Keehner is a research consultant with expertise in cognitive psychology, learning science, and assessment science. She has a Ph.D. in Experimental Cognitive Psychology from the University of Bristol, and she held postdoctoral positions in the Dept. of Surgery, UCSF and the Dept. of Psychology, UCSB, as well as faculty positions at Curtin University in Western Australia and the University of Dundee in Scotland, where she studied spatial cognition and mental spatial reasoning in real-world domains such as surgery, medicine, dentistry, and medical education. In her previous role as Director of Cognitive and Learning Sciences at Educational Testing Service (ETS), she led research projects on a range of topics in learning and assessment, including creating frameworks for assessment, validating measurement constructs, designing interactive simulations for learning and assessment, designing digital test items, and drawing valid inferences from log data. Her research methods expertise spans empirical lab-based studies, ethnographic and field studies, quantitative surveys, and in-depth qualitative interviews. Her subject-matter expertise includes cognitive and learning processes, human factors, education and learning science, user experience, validity, and measurement science, and she has more than 40 peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations spanning topics such as spatial skills in laparoscopic surgery, interactive 3D models for medical education, and digitally based educational assessment.
