Ji Yun Son

Ji Yun Son is professor of psychology at California State University, Los Angeles and director of the Cal State LA Learning Lab. She is a co-author of the interactive textbook Statistics and Data Science: A Modeling Approach, published using coursekata.org and used by more than 50 high schools and institutions of higher education. Her doctorate in cognitive science and psychology is from Indiana University Bloomington. She is interested in how basic cognitive and perceptual processes foster rich and transferable learning. Her work examines methods of applying psychological insights at scale to issues such as mathematics remediation and student success. Through directing wise interventions at Cal State LA, she has helped develop and validate materials to help students achieve higher and persist longer. The central idea behind Son’s work is that learning changes the way we see the world.