Amos Jeng

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan. I hold a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a B.A. in Cognitive Science and Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University.

My research program draws on quantitative and qualitative analytical approaches to better understand how learners think and behave when seeking academic help. Specifically, I study:

1. How learners evaluate the help they receive in digital environments
2. The social and cultural factors that shape students’ motivation to seek help
3. How students interact with and learn from large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, when seeking academic help

Together, these lines of research inform educational practices that can more effectively support students as they navigate academic challenges in a variety of learning contexts and modalities.