Alicia C. Alonzo
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Alicia Cristina Alonzo is an American scholar of science education specializing in educational assessment, formative assessment, and pedagogical content knowledge.[1] She is a professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University.[2]
Alonzo was an undergraduate at Cornell University. She has a 1999 Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, supervised by Thomas McGill,[3] on the fabrication of laser diodes.[4]
Soon after, her interests shifted to science education.[4] After positions in educational research at the University of California, Berkeley[5] and the University of Iowa,[6] Alonzo became an assistant professor at Michigan State University in 2009.[7]