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Rim Razzouk

GENERAL INFORMATION

Current Address: **** *** ****** ***

Tallahassee Florida, 32317

Phone: 850-***-****

E-Mail Address: abhv3y@r.postjobfree.com or abhv3y@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Preparation

2009-present Doctor in Philosophy. Florida State University, Tallahassee,

(anticipated Florida, USA. Major: Instructional Systems. Minor: Evaluation

graduation and Communications. Cumulative GPA: 4.0. Dissertation: The

Spring 2011) Effect of Case Studies on Individual Learning Outcomes,

Attitudes, and Team Shared Mental Models in a Team-Based

Learning Environment in an Undergraduate Educational

Psychology Course. Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Tristan Johnson.

Committee members: Drs. Valerie Shute, David Eccles, and Cathy

Levenson.

2005-2006 Master’s of Science. Florida State University, Tallahassee,

Florida, USA. Major: Instructional Systems. Cumulative GPA:

4.0. Advisor: Dr. Robert Reiser.

Certificate. Florida State University, Tallahassee,

Florida, USA. Major: Human Performance Technology. Advisor:

Dr. Robert Reiser.

2001-2004 Bachelor of Science. Notre Dame University, Loueize, Lebanon.

Major: Business Computing. Cumulative GPA: 3.85. Graduated

with high distinction, equivalent to Magna Cum Laude.

2001 Lebanese Baccalaureate II. Lebanese government through

Bishmizzine High School, El-Koura, Lebanon. With

distinction.

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Professional Experience

2011 Teaching Assistant, College of Education, Florida State

University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. Taught a Management for

Instructional Development course for graduate students.

2010-present Graduate Research Assistant, Educational Psychology and

Leadership Department, College of Education, Florida State

University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. MacArthur Research grant.

Multiple projects including: (a) 21st Century Assessment

project and (b)Modeling and Assessing Quest to Learn.

Multiple Tasks including: creating system thinking, time

management, teamwork, and demographic e-surveys; analyzing data,

writing literature review papers, creating worked examples,

creating models, and others. PI: Dr. Valerie Shute

2009-present Graduate Research Assistant, Learning Systems Institute, Florida

State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. FIPSE grant. Multiple

tasks including: collecting and analyzing data, designing studies,

writing literature review, creating user manuals, and others. PI:

Dr. Tristan Johnson

2009 Co-teaching, College of Education, Florida State

University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. Taught a Management for

Instructional Development course for graduate students.

Redesigning a course, College of Education, Florida State

University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. Redesigned and developed

an undergraduate Educational Psychology course (four

sections). Tasks included: creating case studies, implementing

team-based learning (TBL) strategy, writing quizzes, and

evaluating the course in addition to training instructors on using materials

and implementing the TBL strategy. Course Supervisor:

Dr. Jeanine Turner

2008 Instructional Designer, Notre Dame University, Loueize, Lebanon. Tasks included:

Designed training material, trained faculty and staff on using

technology such as Blackboard, Sharepoint, MS Office Suite and

others; implemented instructional design models, created surveys,

and designed Electronic Performance Support System.

2007-2008 Instructional Designer, PaxoSoft, El-Koura, Lebanon. Multiple

projects included: Learning Management Systems, Content

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Management Systems, Survey Management Systems, and others.

Tasks included: designing and developing help systems, creating

animated help movies, writing user manuals, assessing clients’

needs, writing requirement documents, evaluating employees’

performance, and others.

2006 Instructional Designer, College of Education, Florida State University, Tallahassee,

Florida. This was part of an Electronic Performance Support

Systems (EPSS) course where instructional design students

in this course were supposed to design and develop an EPSS for

NCATE at the College of Education where NCATE administrators

chose the most appropriate solution and adapted it. This project

included: creating rubrics, forms, reports, success indicators, and

others. My project was selected as the best optimal solution and

has been adapted.

2005-2006 Graduate Research Assistant and Intern, Learning Systems

Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. US

Navy grant. Multiple tasks included: preparing guidelines for the

Navy, conducting study for end-users of the Navy guidelines using

Electronic Performance Support System (EPSS) and determining

key terms for EPSS searching, coming up with surveying strategies

and surveying and interviewing commanders from the Navy and

others. PI: Dr. Tristan Johnson.

2004-2005 Technical Writer and Instructional Media Designer, LibanCo

Source, El-Koura, Lebanon. Tasks included: creating training

courses, tutorials, presentations, and interactive manuals for

training on EnfoTrust, Atlanta, USA-priority software that is used

by many of Fortune 500 companies.

Private Teacher. Taught and assisted in teaching science and math subjects to a special

elementary student.

2004 Mathematics Teacher, Choueifat International School, El-Koura, Lebanon. Taught algebra

for middle school classes as a summer class.

2002-2003 Database Management, Azar Pharmacy, El-Koura, Lebanon.

Created and managed a database for tracking inventory and the

ingredients of every medicine sold in the pharmacy.

2001-2002 Programmer, Notre Dame University, El-Koura, Lebanon. Tasks

included: developing and maintaining two main projects: a

database for the Notre Dame University libraries to monitor

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the inventory and the book checkout system along with book status

and order system. The second project was developing a

promotional CD for Notre Dame University that gives a virtual

tour of all the facilities, student clubs, dining facilities, and

educational programs within the university.

TEACHING

• Management for Instructional Development (EME 6631) (Spring 2011, Teaching

Assistant, College of Education, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida)

• Tutor for doctoral students taking qualifying exam (Fall, 2010, College of Education,

Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida)

• Management for Instructional Development (EME 6631) (Spring 2009, Co-instructor,

College of Education, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida)

• Private teacher for science and math lessons (2004-2005)

• Mathematics teacher for middle school students (Summer 2004)

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND HUMAN PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

• Educational Psychology course (EDF 4210), 2009

• Managing Instructional Development (EME6631-online), 2009

• Other courses were developed but as a course project that I was enrolled in during my

educational path

• Team lead in EME 6631project, 2006

SCHOLARY OR CREATIVE WORK

Peer Reviewed Articles

Shute, V. J., Hansen, E. G., Underwood, J. S., & R. Razzouk. (submitted 2010). A review of the

influence of parental involvement on secondary school students’ academic achievement,

Education Research International.

Encyclopedia Entries

Razzouk, R., & Johnson, T. (Accepted December 2010).Shared cognition. In S.M. Norbert (Ed.),

Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. New York, NY: Springer.

Razzouk, R., & Johnson, T. (submitted 2010). Cooperative learning. In S.M. Norbert (Ed.),

Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. New York, NY: Springer.

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Proceedings

Razzouk, R. (2010). Effect of academic incentive use with cooperative learning groups on

concept acquisition and attitudes. Proceeding of the 33rd Association for Educational

Communications and Technology (AECT), Anaheim, CA.

Conference Presentations

Razzouk, R. (2010, October). Effect of academic incentive use with cooperative learning groups

on concept acquisition and attitudes. Paper presented at Association for Educational

Communications and Technology, Anaheim, CA: AECT.

Razzouk, R. (submitted 2011). The effect of case studies on learning outcomes, attitudes and

team-shared mental models in a team-based learning environment in an undergraduate

educational psychology course. Paper submitted for presentation at Association for

Educational Communications and Technology (AECT).

Razzouk, R. (submitted 2011). Experiences of undergraduate students in a case- and team-based

learning environment in an educational psychology course. Paper submitted for

presentation at Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT).

Razzouk, R. (2011, Spring). Effect of academic incentive use with cooperative learning groups

on concept acquisition and attitudes. Paper to be presented at the Marvalene Hughes

Research in Education Conference, Tallahassee, FL: Florida State University.

Invited Working Examples

Shute, V. J., Kim, Y. J., & Razzouk, R. (2010). ECD for Dummies. In J. Gee & D. Davidson

(Eds.) Working Examples, http://myweb.fsu.edu/vshute/ECD%20for%20Dummies/ECD

%20for%20Dummies.swf

ACADEMIC SERVICES, PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS, AND AWARDS

• Association for Educational Communications and Technology member, 2010-2011

• Association for Educational Communications and Technology reviewer, 2011

• Instructional Science Journal Reviewer, 2010-2011

• Tutor for doctoral students taking qualifying exam (Fall, 2010, College of Education,

Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida)

• Green club member, Notre Dame University, 2003-2004

• Students affairs office assistant, Notre Dame University, 2003-2004

• Notre Dame University scholarships as a result of high GPA, 2002-2004

• Notre Dame University Deans Distinction List, 2001-2004

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN, COMPUTER, AND LANGUAGE SKILLS

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• Instructional design skills: proficient in analysis, design, development and evaluation of

instructional material.

• Project management skills: Ability to write proposals, set project timelines, and budget

plans along with excellent skills in using MS Project and One Page Project Excel.

• Quantitative, qualitative, and research skills: Ability to analyze quantitative data and

statistical reports along with high expertise in: SPSS, Mplus, and Microsoft Excel.

• Presentation and web design skills: Ability to use the latest technologies in creating

effective and unique presentations utilizing the following: Macromedia Director,

Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Captivate, Macromedia Breeze, Adobe

Photoshop, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Office.

• Languages fluent in: English, Arabic, and French

REFERENCES

Tristan E. Johnson, Ph.D., Associate Director in Research

Learning Systems Institute, Florida State University

Email: abhv3y@r.postjobfree.com

Office: 850-***-****

Dr. Valerie Shute, Professor, Instructional Systems, Department of Educational Psychology and

Learning Systems, Florida State University

E-mail: abhv3y@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 850-***-****

Dr. Robert Reiser, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Robert M. Morgan Professor of

Instructional Systems, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, Florida

State University

E-mail: abhv3y@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 850-***-****

Dr. David Eccles, Associate Professor and Lead Learning Scientist, Learning Systems Institute,

and Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, Florida State University.

E-mail: abhv3y@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 850-***-****

Dr. Linda Schrader, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy

Studies, Florida State University.

E-mail: abhv3y@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 850-***-****

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