Hilda Borko

Hilda Borko is a professor of education and chair of educational psychology at the School of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Borko's research explores teacher cognition and the process of learning to teach, with an emphasis on changes in novice and experienced teachers' knowledge and beliefs about teaching, learning, and assessment, and their classroom practices. Dr. Borko is principal investigator on a research project funded through

the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, to develop and validate measures of classroom practices that will be used to investigate the impact of accountability policies on curriculum and instruction. She is co-principal investigator on two additional research projects: Learning to Teach Secondary Mathematics in Two Reform-Based Teacher Education Programs, and Supporting the Transition from Arithmetic to Algebraic Reasoning. Dr. Borko is a member of numerous professional organizations in education and psychology and has served as a member and chair of various committees for the American Educational Research Association and the Educational Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. She was editor of the Teaching, Learning, and Human Development section of the American Educational Research Journal and interim editor of Educational Researcher. She is currently president-elect of AERA, and serves on the association's council and executive board. Dr. Hilda Borko received here Ph.D. from UCLA in 1978.