Olusola Adesope

Olusola O. Adesope is the Boeing Distinguished Professor of STEM Education and Professor of Educational Psychology at Washington State University.

Adesope was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria.^[1] He first left Nigeria for the United States and worked as an IT Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He then immigrated to Canada in 2003 with his wife Tolu and enrolled at Simon Fraser University (SFU).^[2] At SFU, he earned his Master's degree in educational technology and his doctorate degree in educational psychology.^[1] In 2011, he received the G.M. Dunlop Award for best doctoral thesis in educational psychology completed at a Canadian university.^[3]

In 2010, Adesope joined the faculty of Educational Psychology at Washington State University.^[4] He received the TICL Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award two years later from the American Educational Research Association.^[5] He also conducted a study with researchers at Simon Fraser University which found that one-on-one computer-based tutoring was more effective than traditional teacher-based instruction when used on larger class sizes.^[6]

In 2017, Adesope was appointed to a second term on the editorial board of the Review of Educational Research journal.^[7] He was also promoted to the Boeing Distinguished Professor of STEM Education.^[8] In this role, he collaborated with Kripa Sundar to research how “seductive details” could deter learning in the classroom.^[9]

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