Meet the Faculty: Matt Kloser ’02, ’04 M.Ed.

Matthew Kloser, Ph.D. ’02, ’04 M.Ed. is the Hackett Family Director of the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame, as well as founding director of its Center for STEM Education and a faculty member.

Kloser’s research focuses on issues of teaching, learning, and assessment in science classrooms with a special focus on biology education. His research includes experimental studies that identify affordances and constraints of learning biology from different text types, mixed methods studies focused on assessment implications for student outcomes, and the relationship between core instructional practices and student outcomes.

Kloser received his M.Ed. through the Alliance for Catholic Education program at the University of Notre Dame and taught high school physics and math for five years prior to earning his M.S. in biology and Ph.D. in science education from Stanford University.