Developing Direct Measures of Global Competence

Jennifer DeBoer is currently a postdoctoral associate for education research at MIT’s Teaching and Learning Laboratory. She completed her doctoral work at Vanderbilt University in international education policy studies, focusing on engineering student access, equity, and success, and she completed her bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and foreign languages and literatures at MIT. Her research interests include the use of technology in education in low-income contexts and the structure of engineering training for local capacity building, currently focusing on online learning.