Rate My Professor Yasemin Copur-Gencturk

Yasemin Copur-Gencturk is an associate professor in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, where she holds the Katzman/Ernst Chair in Educational Entrepreneurship, Technology and Innovation. She serves as co-director of the USC STEM Center. Copur-Gencturk earned her Ph.D. in mathematics education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012, an M.S. in statistics from the same institution in 2010, an Ed.M. in secondary and continuing education in 2007, and a B.S. in mathematics summa cum laude from Hacettepe University in Turkey in 2003. Her professional journey includes teaching high school mathematics in Ankara, Turkey, followed by a postdoctoral research associate position at Rice University (2012-2013), assistant professorship at the University of Houston (2013-2016), and various roles at USC since 2016: research professor (2016-2018), assistant professor (2018-2022), and associate professor since 2022.

Her research specializes in mathematics teacher education, examining teachers' mathematical knowledge, content-specific noticing skills, proportional reasoning, and biases impacting equity in mathematics classrooms. She investigates effective professional development, including interactive, personalized computer-based and AI-powered programs that provide just-in-time feedback to enhance teacher learning and student outcomes. Funded by the National Science Foundation and Institute of Education Sciences, her work has appeared in premier journals such as Educational Researcher, Computers & Education, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, and Teaching and Teacher Education. Notable publications include "Teachers’ Bias Against the Mathematical Ability of Female, Black and Hispanic Students" (Educational Researcher, 2020), "The Impact of an Interactive, Personalized Computer-Based Teacher Professional Development Program on Student Performance: A Randomized Experiment" (Computers & Education, 2023), and "A Longitudinal Study of Mathematics Teachers’ Knowledge Growth" (Teaching and Teacher Education, 2023). Copur-Gencturk has received the NSF Fellow for SIARM award (2021-2023), USC Rossier Excellence in Research Award (2020), AERA Early Career Publication Award (2016), and serves as associate editor of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education and on the editorial panel of Mathematics Teacher Educator.