Resa Kelly

Biography

Resa is a professor of chemistry and the director of Science Education at San José State University. She began her career as a high school chemistry teacher before furthering her education and earning her master’s in Chemistry and PhD in Chemistry Education at the University of Northern Colorado. Her research focuses on the design and study of atomic level visualizations in chemistry learning.

Resa is interested in analyses that explore learner’s cognition and how it interacts with the learning environment, as well as conceptual change and eliciting student ideas to assist with transfer and application of ideas. Resa has considerable service with the American Chemical Society’s Division of Chemistry Education (DivCHED) acting as secretary/councilor and DivCHED International Activities committee chair. She currently is a sub-committee chair for the International Activities Committee of ACS.

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, Chemistry Education Research and Practice