Matthew Kloser

Co-Principal Investigator, University of Notre Dame

Matthew Kloser is the founding director of the Center for STEM Education and an Associate Professor in science education at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Kloser’s research focuses on issues of teaching, learning, and assessment in science classrooms with a special focus on biology education. His research includes experimental studies that identify affordances and constraints of learning biology from different text types, mixed methods studies focused on assessment implications for student outcomes, and the relationship between core instructional practices and student outcomes. Dr. Kloser was named an Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JRST) with Edna Tan and Dana Vedder-Weiss have been named the Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JRST) for the term 2025-2029.Dr. Kloser received his M.Ed. from the ACE program at the University of Notre Dame and and an M.S. in biology and Ph.D. in science education from Stanford University.