Publications, ongoing projects, and research experience

Publications

The Impact of Pre-College Mentorship on the Development of Students' STEM Identity

Blerim Jashari, Gerhard Sonnert, Susan Sunbury, & Philip Sandler

(In preparation)

Ongoing projects

Children's Question-Asking Behavior when They Think They're Learning with AI Versus Human Teachers

Part of a project investigating how children ask questions after learning challenging scientific content when told they will interact with either an AI chatbot or a human teacher. Developing study stimuli and procedures, recruiting participants, and running the study.

Belief Revision and Learning Measured with EEG

Trained in electroencephalography (EEG) and assisting on an ongoing project examining belief revision in children ages 5–9 using a water displacement task. The study compares prediction, explanation, and baseline conditions to understand how children update beliefs.

Research experience

Graduate Student Researcher

Computational, Cognitive, and Development Lab · Harvard Graduate School of Education

(June 2025–present)

Graduate Researcher

Science Education Department · Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

(September 2024–June 2025)

Graduate Research Assistant

Thomas Lab · Harvard University

(September 2024–May 2025)

Research Intern

Ministry of Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation · Kosovo

(September 2021–March 2022)

Research Assistant

Affect Regulation, and Cognition Lab · Yale University

(May 2020–June 2021)

Research Assistant of Psychology and Learning

Cognition, Brain, Behavior Faculty · Minerva University

(May 2020–September 2021)