[3] Her research publications have included work on instructional simulations, concept inventories, and gender gaps in physics education.
McKagan majored in physics at Barnard College, graduating summa cum laude in 1998.
She went to the University of Washington in Seattle for graduate study in physics, earning a master's degree in 2000 and completing her Ph.D. in 2004.
[4] Her dissertation, Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices, was supervised by William P.
[4] McKagan was a 2013 recipient of the Homer L. Dodge Citation for Distinguished Service of the American Association of Physics Teachers.