Christopher Lynnly Hovey, Ph.D.

Dr. Christopher Lynnly Hovey is a research scientist faculty member in NCWIT at the University of Colorado Boulder. Over the last two decades, Dr. Hovey has served in multiple roles, ranging from a research assistant through project lead, for NSF- and industry-funded research and evaluation projects. These projects investigate issues and solutions for optimizing education and improving the experiences of all students in associate’s, bachelors, and graduate programs in computing fields. He has also evaluated programs and interventions in K-12 education that prepare and encourage students to pursue career pathways into computing.

Dr. Hovey’s research investigates two lines of research. First, his work focuses on translating scholarship into practical interventions and evaluating their effectiveness in bolstering students’ success in undergraduate and graduate education. Identifying evidence-based practices is not sufficient; practitioners need to make regular and significant use of them to innovate how education is achieved. Therefore, Dr. Hovey’s second line of research examines strategies for promoting the widespread adoption and sustained use of pedagogical, curricular, and organizational innovations among computer and information science faculty and administrators. Dr. Hovey has published his research through numerous conference workshops, presentations, and proceedings, including through the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and the Frontiers in Education (FIE) conference.

NCWIT Roles: Higher Ed Alliance; Research Team; Resource Team