Rosanne Luu

Rosanne Luu is a doctoral student in the Curriculum & Instruction department, working under Dr. Nicole Louie. She is interested in taking a participatory methods approach to studying students’ experiences with learning mathematics. Rosanne has also been advised by Dr. Martina Rau, where she researched the instructional practices that support students’ multiple representation use in early elementary mathematics settings. Prior to attending UW-Madison, Rosanne worked for WestEd, a nonprofit education research and evaluation organization, where she led and contributed to studies of education technology products. These studies were funded under Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants through IES, NIH, and NSF.

Awards and Honors

• UW-Madison Education Graduate Research Scholars (Ed-GRS) Fellowship
• Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) Fellowship
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2021 Awardee
• Ed Myers Award for Exceptional Contribution to the WestEd Community, 2021

Publications

Luu, R. L. (2025, June). Toward an equity-oriented theory of instruction: A sociopolitical analysis of concreteness fading [Long Paper]. International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Helsinki, Finland.

Nathan, M. J., Swart, M. I., Luu, R. L., Grondin, M. M., & Smith, H. M. (2025, Apr). Direction, magnitude, and torque: Mixed methods analysis of embodied scaffolds for transfer of learning [Paper]. Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association, Denver, CO.

2024 Rho, J., Rau, M. A., Kumar Bharti, S., Luu, R., MacMahan, J., Wang, A., & Zhu, J. (July).
Various misleading visual features in misleading graphs: Do they truly deceive us? [Poster].
CogSci Annual Meeting, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

2024 Luu, R., & Rau, M. (Apr). Learning to choose: A case study of instructional practices
supporting meta-representational competencies development [Poster]. Annual Meeting of the
American Education Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.

2023 Luu, R., & Dey, I, & Grondin, M. (Oct). Exploring the meaning of thriving in academic
spaces: An experimental collaborative autoethnography forum [Workshop]. Learning
Sciences Graduate Student Conference, Iowa City, IA.

Activities

Reviewed for AERA, ICLS, and Play Make Learn.

Serve on volunteer committee for Play Make Learn.

Volunteer graduate student mentor for UW-Madison Student Education Research Program at UW-Madison, Summer 2024.

Mentored two graduate students on obtaining internships for User Experience Research roles.