Deepak Kumar

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant (Co-Instructor) – Virginia Tech

AAEC 1003: Economics of the Food & Fiber System (Microeconomics) (120 students, Fall 2025)
Responsible for teaching one-fourth of the lectures.

Instructor – Virginia Tech

AAEC 3204: International Agricultural Development and Trade (30 students, Fall 2024)
Average student evaluation (across the five core dimensions-preparedness, clarity, feedback, mutual respect, and effectiveness) : 4.9 / 6 (100% response rate)

Teaching Assistant – Virginia Tech

AAEC 3204: International Agricultural Development and Trade (Fall 2022, Fall 2023)

Instructor – Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), India

Stata for Econometric Methods for Impact Evaluation (MBA, 35 students, Fall 2019)

Graduate Teaching Scholar (GTS) – Virginia Tech

As a Graduate Teaching Scholar in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), I participated in advanced pedagogical training and teaching workshops focused on student engagement, inclusive teaching, and active learning.

Teaching and Learning Scholarship

I am conducting a classroom-based randomized controlled trial titled “Investigating the Retrieval Effect with and without AI Support: A Randomized Controlled Trial among College Students,” in collaboration with Professor George Davis. The experiment evaluates how retrieval practice, through a pre-exam practice test, affects learning outcomes when paired with or without AI assistance. Students are randomly assigned to one of three groups: a retrieval practice with AI support group, a retrieval practice without AI group, and a pure control group that receives a placebo activity instead of testing. All students later take the same post-practice exam under identical conditions. By comparing their performance, the study assesses whether AI-assisted retrieval enhances, substitutes, or undermines the cognitive benefits of traditional testing. The results contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning by providing rigorous evidence on how AI tools influence knowledge retention and cognitive effort in higher education.

Teaching and Professional Development Conferences