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Beliz Hazan, Ph.D.

Research Psychologist

I'm a research psychologist with a Ph.D. degree in Experimental Psychology with 15 years of basic and applied research experience in the following areas:

gamification, information visualization, and visual cognition.

 

I'm an energetic and dedicated college instructor with 10 years of teaching experience in the following courses:

research methods, experimental psychology, general psychology, and cognitive psychology.  

Selected Projects

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Use of Infographics to Evaluate Context Processing

Lead Researcher

  • Prepared and submitted Institutional Review Board (IRB) forms for approval.

  • Designed and created charts, maps, and timelines based on the design principles using Adobe Illustrator.

  • Implemented a cycle of the iterative testing process along with participants’ feedback to develop optimal perceived tasks.

  • Recruited participants and collected data.

  • Administered standardized neuropsychological tests to evaluate the construct validity of innovative tasks.

  • Analyzed data and created visual tools to present results.

  • Defended and submitted a PhD dissertation. 

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Making Psychology Statistics Fun

Lead Researcher

  • Initiated the idea of using gamified learning environments as an intervention method to increase motivation of undergraduate students in psychology statistics labs.

  • Prepared and submitted IRB forms for approval.

  • Managed team members and assigned tasks accordingly. 

  • Served as a liaison with the mentor and research assistant for www.trydesignlab.com to foster learning UX Research and strategy to create student-centered learning environments.

  • Conducted detailed literature review related to intervention tools for statistics labs and gamification.

  • Designed the applied research study.

  • Created prototypes 0f the gamified learning environment in Microsoft Powerpoint.

  • Fostered increased engaging collaboration opportunities among students by implementing an in-class gamified fill-in-the-blanks task.

  • Collaborated with the Computer Science Department in each stage of the study.

  • Collected data in the classrooms within six weeks.

  • Analyzed data in Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and interpreted the results.

  • Attended a writing workshop of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL).

  • Successfully published a research paper in the Statistics Education Research Journal.

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Stimulus Features Contributing to

Perceptual Organization of

Complex Scenes

Researcher

  • Conducted literature review related to scene perception and perceptual grouping.

  • Generated visual stimuli using Adobe Photoshop and presented the stimuli on E-prime Psychology Software Tool.

  • Collected and analyzed the data, interpreted the results, and wrote a scientific report.

  • Successfully defended to committee members (the first doctoral project).

  • Presented the results at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL. 

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Quantitative Reasoning (QR) Fellowship

QR Fellow

  • Collaborated with a team of QR Fellows to develop faculty training workshops related to the use of infographics and interactive classroom response systems (e.g., clickers) in the classroom.

  • Led and developed a training workshop entitled “How to use infographics in the classrooms.”

  • Worked one-on-one with faculty to train them in the use of the clickers and in preparing a gamified learning

    environment in their classroom.

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