Eleanor O'Rourke
· Associate Professor of Computer ScienceNorthwestern University · Chemical Engineering
Active 1992–2024
About
Eleanor O'Rourke is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and an Associate Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Her research sits at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, and the Learning Sciences. She is particularly focused on designing, building, and studying learning environments that help students develop motivation and effective practices in computer science. Her work includes studying how students' beliefs and expectations about programming influence their motivation and learning strategies, developing AI models to detect moments when students may feel negatively about their programming abilities, and creating learner-centered inspection tools to assist novice web developers in learning from authentic professional websites. Dr. O'Rourke employs an interdisciplinary approach, collecting data from interviews, observations, surveys, interaction logs, and sensors, and applying mixed methods such as design-based research, grounded theory, lab studies, and formal experiments. Her research is funded by the National Science Foundation and Google.
Similar researchers at Northwestern University
- Resume-aware match score
- Save to shortlist
- AI-drafted outreach
See your match with Eleanor O'Rourke
PhdFit ranks faculty by your research interests, methods, and publications — grounded in their actual work, not templates.
- Free to start
- No credit card
- 30-second signup