Rate My Professor Kok Sing Tang

Professor Kok Sing Tang is a Professor and Director of Graduate Research in the School of Education at Curtin University, where he also serves as Discipline Lead of the STEM Education Research Group. He holds a BA and MSc in Physics from the University of Cambridge and an MA and PhD in Education from the University of Michigan. Prior to his appointment at Curtin University, Tang was an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His academic career has focused on advancing science education through innovative pedagogical approaches.

Tang's research specializations encompass the role of language, literacy, discourse, and multimodality in science education, as well as the application of generative artificial intelligence in secondary and higher education contexts. He is a founding leader of the Special Interest Group on Languages and Literacies in Science Education within the European Science Education Research Association and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Research in Science Education. Notable contributions include his authorship of the book Discourse Strategies for Science Teaching and Learning, published by Routledge in 2020. He has led research projects such as the Australian Research Council Discovery Project titled Drawing Science Diagrams to Enhance Students' Scientific Creativity, in collaboration with Mihye Won and David Treagust, and the Australia-Korea Foundation project Drawing Students’ Ideas of Science in Australian and Korean Schools. In recognition of his excellence, Tang received the Humanities Teaching Excellence Award for HDR supervision and the Humanities Research Excellence Award for research impact on generative AI in education in 2024. His work has significantly influenced disciplinary literacy and multimodal practices in STEM education.