Dr. Charles Raffaele is a research scientist in the CREATE lab. He completed his PhD in educational psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research is focused on digital technologies for learning (e.g., games, apps, multimedia), including particularly for second language learning. He has served as a reviewer for the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, and presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. He has published journal articles and chapters on game-based learning, parents' decisions for their children's digital media use, writing implementation in psychology instruction, and fostering self-regulated learning during remote instruction. He was awarded as co-PI a grant to study second language learning with an LLM-based avatar.
Selected Publications
Raffaele, C., Suchodoletz, A. v., Homer, B. D., Castelyn, J., Johnson, P. J., Plass, J. L. (2026). Parents’ decisions regarding digital media use by their children under three years old in the United Arab Emirates. Infancy, e70073. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70073
Bembenutty, H., Raffaele, C., & Pisari, D. (2025). A self-study on promoting self-regulated learning using technology during remote instruction. In J. D. Salisbury-Glennon, C. Wang, & D. M. Shannon (Eds.). Examining the cognitive and psychological effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic on high school, undergraduate and graduate learners (pp. 435-466). Information Age Publishing.
Raffaele, C., & Brooks, P. J. (2020). Transforming writing instruction in the teaching of psychology. In T. M. Ober, E. Che, J. E. Brodsky, C. Raffaele, & P. J. Brooks (Eds.). How we teach now: The GSTA guide to transformative teaching (pp. 357-370). Society for the Teaching of Psychology. http://teachpsych.org/ebooks/howweteachnow-transformative
Homer, B. D., Raffaele, C., & Henderson, H. (2019). Games as playful learning: Implications of developmental theory for game-based learning. In J. L. Plass, R. E. Mayer & B. D. Homer (Eds.), Handbook of game-based learning (pp. 25-52). The MIT Press.