Her research focuses on improving K-12 engineering education through research on curriculum and test development, and the development of students’ computational thinking in technology-enhanced environments. As part of her graduate studies, Ketenci directed a study that focused on measuring engineering curriculum impact on students’ computational thinking and 21st-century skills. She also works with a research group for online undergraduate education, and her role involves social network analysis and emotion analysis to measure changing leadership patterns among students’ online discussion posts and to analyze the relationship between students’ emotion in their discussion posts and their leadership level.