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PSLC Postdocs

2010-12-01T15:55:12Z

GregDyke:

This page contains
* Information about PSLC Postdocs
* Information which is relevant to them and to new Postdocs

It is "maintained" by [[GregDyke]], but anyone should feel free to edit it.

== Who are the PSLC Postdocs? ==

{| border=1 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! Name
! University/Department
! Working With
! PSLC Thrust and Projects
! E-mail
! Research Interests
|-
| [[Suzanne Adlof]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Matthew Bernacki]] || Pitt/LRDC || Tim Nokes, Vincent Aleven || Metacognition and Motivation Thrust; Questionnaires || bernacki@pitt.edu || My research focuses on how students learn in classroom and computer-based learning environments. Of particular interest to me are students’ self-regulated learning behaviors as well as their achievement goals, level of self-efficacy, and prior knowledge.
|-
| [[Fan Cao]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Min Chi]] || CMU/MLD || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Sherice Clarke]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[John Connelly]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Amy Crosson]] || Pitt/LRDC || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [http://www.emse.fr/~dyke Gregory Dyke] || CMU/LTI || Carolyn Rosé || [[Social And Communicative Factors in Learning | Social and Communicative Factors Thrust]] 9th grade Biology Cancer support groups || gregdyke@gmail.com || I am interested in the creation of tools to help humans analyse data of computer mediated collaboration (and learning). My PhD resulted in the creation of [http://code.google.com/p/tatiana Tatiana] (Trace Analysis Tool for Interaction ANAlysts), a flexible, extensible tool particularly well suited for the analysis of small group face to face and computer mediated interaction. My current work involves examining and assisting the discovery of how interaction unfolds over time.
|-
| [[Seiji Isotani]] || CMU/HCII || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Laura Halderman]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Ido Roll]] || UBC/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Oscar Saz]] || CMU/LTI || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Stephanie Siler]] || CMU/Psychology || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Zelha Tunc-Pekkan]] || CMU/HCII || Vincent Aleven, Nikol Rummel || Learning with multiple graphical representations in a complex, real-world domain: intelligent software tutors for fractions. (NSF funded project) || zelha@cs.cmu.edu || Children's mathematical learning (more specifically construction of fraction knowledge), test and tutor development aligned with children's thinking, teacher in service.
|-
| [[Candace Walkington]] || UTexas/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Michael Yudelson]] || CMU/HCII || Phil Pavlik || ? || ? || User modeling, Educational Data Mining
|}

== Meeting Notes and Schedule ==

=== Nov 29 2010 ===
* Prepared SWOT for AB
* Matt will attend the Grad Student SWOT meeting on Dec 6.
* Decided to setup a wiki page modeled on the Grad Student wiki page (Greg)
* Matt will set up a doodle to plan next set of meetings (let him know of any conferences you are planning to attend over the summer)

== FAQs==

''What lists should I sign up for?''

: pslc-pier-announce -- job announcements from David Klahr mostly
: pslc-post-docs -- the post doc list
: pslc-members and pslc-announce -- both of these seem to be general announcements, one internal and one external?

: The list for the thrust you are a member of.

: Contact Joe Bodnar to be added to these.

''What do the PSCL Postdocs do as an entity?''

: Have regular meetings (about once a month) to discuss issues relevant to our experience as Postdocs

''I'm a new Postdoc. Can you give me a quick overview of PSLC?''

: Big question...

''I'm a new Postdoc. What should I do and who should I talk to?''

: * Sign up for mailing lists
: * Meet other people in your thrust
: * There are also monthly PSLC lunches
: * Read up on the projects your thrust is involved in
: * Check out the other thrusts

PSLC Postdocs

2010-12-01T15:52:23Z

GregDyke:

This page contains
* Information about PSLC Postdocs
* Information which is relevant to them and to new Postdocs

It is "maintained" by [[GregDyke]], but anyone should feel free to edit it.

== Who are the PSLC Postdocs? ==

{| border=1 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! Name
! University/Department
! Working With
! PSLC Thrust and Projects
! E-mail
! Research Interests
|-
| [[Suzanne Adlof]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Matthew Bernacki]] || Pitt/LRDC || Tim Nokes, Vincent Aleven || Metacognition and Motivation; Questionnaires || bernacki@pitt.edu || My research focuses on how students learn in classroom and computer-based learning environments. Of particular interest to me are students’ self-regulated learning behaviors as well as their achievement goals, level of self-efficacy, and prior knowledge.
|-
| [[Fan Cao]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Min Chi]] || CMU/MLD || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Sherice Clarke]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[John Connelly]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Amy Crosson]] || Pitt/LRDC || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [http://www.emse.fr/~dyke Gregory Dyke] || CMU/LTI || Carolyn Rosé || [[Social And Communicative Factors in Learning | SC Thrust]] 9th grade Biology|| gregdyke@gmail.com || I am interested in the creation of tools to help humans analyse data of computer mediated collaboration (and learning). My PhD resulted in the creation of [http://code.google.com/p/tatiana Tatiana] (Trace Analysis Tool for Interaction ANAlysts), a flexible, extensible tool particularly well suited for the analysis of small group face to face and computer mediated interaction. My current work involves examining and assisting the discovery of how interaction unfolds over time.
|-
| [[Seiji Isotani]] || CMU/HCII || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Laura Halderman]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Ido Roll]] || UBC/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Oscar Saz]] || CMU/LTI || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Stephanie Siler]] || CMU/Psychology || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Zelha Tunc-Pekkan]] || CMU/HCII || Vincent Aleven, Nikol Rummel || Learning with multiple graphical representations in a complex, real-world domain: intelligent software tutors for fractions. NSF funded project for teaching fractions to elementary and middle school children using computer tutors. || zelha@cs.cmu.edu || Children's mathematical learning (more specifically construction of fraction knowledge), test and tutor development aligned with children's thinking, teacher in service.
|-
| [[Candace Walkington]] || UTexas/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Michael Yudelson]] || CMU/HCII || Phil Pavlik || ? || ? || User modeling, Educational Data Mining
|}

== Meeting Notes and Schedule ==

=== Nov 29 2010 ===
* Prepared SWOT for AB
* Matt will attend the Grad Student SWOT meeting on Dec 6.
* Decided to setup a wiki page modeled on the Grad Student wiki page (Greg)
* Matt will set up a doodle to plan next set of meetings (let him know of any conferences you are planning to attend over the summer)

== FAQs==

''What lists should I sign up for?''

: pslc-pier-announce -- job announcements from David Klahr mostly
: pslc-post-docs -- the post doc list
: pslc-members and pslc-announce -- both of these seem to be general announcements, one internal and one external?

: The list for the thrust you are a member of.

: Contact Joe Bodnar to be added to these.

''What do the PSCL Postdocs do as an entity?''

: Have regular meetings (about once a month) to discuss issues relevant to our experience as Postdocs

''I'm a new Postdoc. Can you give me a quick overview of PSLC?''

: Big question...

''I'm a new Postdoc. What should I do and who should I talk to?''

: * Sign up for mailing lists
: * Meet other people in your thrust
: * There are also monthly PSLC lunches
: * Read up on the projects your thrust is involved in
: * Check out the other thrusts

PSLC Postdocs

2010-12-01T00:19:42Z

GregDyke:

This page contains
* Information about PSLC Postdocs
* Information which is relevant to them and to new Postdocs

It is "maintained" by [[GregDyke]], but anyone should feel free to edit it.

== Who are the PSLC Postdocs? ==

{| border=1 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! Name
! University/Department
! Working With
! PSLC Thrust and Projects
! E-mail
! Research Interests
|-
| [[Suzanne Adlof]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Matthew Bernacki]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Fan Cao]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Min Chi]] || CMU/MLD || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Sherice Clarke]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[John Connelly]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Amy Crosson]] || Pitt/LRDC || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [http://www.emse.fr/~dyke Gregory Dyke] || CMU/LTI || Carolyn Rosé || [[Social And Communicative Factors in Learning | SC Thrust]] 9th grade Biology|| gregdyke@gmail.com || I am interested in the creation of tools to help humans analyse data of computer mediated collaboration (and learning). My PhD resulted in the creation of [http://code.google.com/p/tatiana Tatiana] (Trace Analysis Tool for Interaction ANAlysts), a flexible, extensible tool particularly well suited for the analysis of small group face to face and computer mediated interaction. My current work involves examining and assisting the discovery of how interaction unfolds over time.
|-
| [[Seiji Isotani]] || CMU/HCII || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Laura Halderman]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Ido Roll]] || UBC/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Oscar Saz]] || CMU/LTI || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Stephanie Siler]] || CMU/Psychology || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Zelha Tunc-Pekkan]] || CMU/HCII || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Candace Walkington]] || UTexas/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|}

== Meeting Notes and Schedule ==

=== Nov 29 2010 ===
* Prepared SWOT for AB
* Matt will attend the Grad Student SWOT meeting on Dec 6.
* Decided to setup a wiki page modeled on the Grad Student wiki page (Greg)
* Matt will set up a doodle to plan next set of meetings (let him know of any conferences you are planning to attend over the summer)

== FAQs==

''What lists should I sign up for?''

: pslc-pier-announce -- job announcements from David Klahr mostly
: pslc-post-docs -- the post doc list
: pslc-members and pslc-announce -- both of these seem to be general announcements, one internal and one external?

: The list for the thrust you are a member of.

: Contact Joe Bodnar to be added to these.

''What do the PSCL Postdocs do as an entity?''

: Have regular meetings (about once a month) to discuss issues relevant to our experience as Postdocs

''I'm a new Postdoc. Can you give me a quick overview of PSLC?''

: Big question...

''I'm a new Postdoc. What should I do and who should I talk to?''

: * Sign up for mailing lists
: * Meet other people in your thrust
: * There are also monthly PSLC lunches
: * Read up on the projects your thrust is involved in
: * Check out the other thrusts

PSLC PostDocs

2010-12-01T00:18:56Z

GregDyke: PSLC PostDocs moved to PSLC Postdocs: Nicer capitalisation

#REDIRECT [[PSLC Postdocs]]

PSLC Postdocs

2010-12-01T00:18:56Z

GregDyke: PSLC PostDocs moved to PSLC Postdocs: Nicer capitalisation

This page contains
* Information about PSLC Postdocs
* Information which is relevant to them and to new Postdocs

It is "maintained" by [[GregDyke]], but anyone should feel free to edit it.

== Who are the PSLC Postdocs? ==

{| border=1 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! Name
! University/Department
! Working With
! PSLC Thrust and Projects
! E-mail
! Research Interests
|-
| [[Suzanne Adlof]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Matthew Bernacki]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Fan Cao]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Min Chi]] || CMU/MLD || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Sherice Clarke]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[John Connelly]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Amy Crosson]] || Pitt/LRDC || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [http://www.emse.fr/~dyke Gregory Dyke] || CMU/LTI || Carolyn Rosé || [[Social And Communicative Factors in Learning | SC Thrust]] 9th grade Biology|| gregdyke@gmail.com || I am interested in the creation of tools to help humans analyse data of computer mediated collaboration (and learning). My PhD resulted in the creation of [http://code.google.com/p/tatiana Tatiana] (Trace Analysis Tool for Interaction ANAlysts), a flexible, extensible tool particularly well suited for the analysis of small group face to face and computer mediated interaction. My current work involves examining and assisting the discovery of how interaction unfolds over time.
|-
| [[Seiji Isotani]] || CMU/HCII || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Laura Halderman]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Ido Roll]] || UBC/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Oscar Saz]] || CMU/LTI || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Stephanie Siler]] || CMU/Psychology || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Zelha Tunc-Pekkan]] || CMU/HCII || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Candace Walkington]] || UTexas/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|}

== Meeting Notes and Schedule ==

=== Nov 29 2010 ===
* Prepared SWOT for AB
* Matt will attend the Grad Student SWOT meeting on Dec 6.
* Decided to setup a wiki page modeled on the Grad Student wiki page (Greg)
* Matt will set up a doodle to plan next set of meetings (let him know of any conferences you are planning to attend over the summer)

== FAQs==

''What lists should I sign up for?''

: pslc-pier-announce -- job announcements from David Klahr mostly
: pslc-post-docs -- the post doc list
: pslc-members and pslc-announce -- both of these seem to be general announcements, one internal and one external?

: The list for the thrust you are a member of.

: Contact Joe Bodnar to be added to these.

''What do the PSCL Postdocs do as an entity?''

: Have regular meetings (about once a month) to discuss issues relevant to our experience as Postdocs

''I'm a new Postdoc. Can you give me a quick overview of PSLC?''

: Big question...

''I'm a new Postdoc. What should I do and who should I talk to?''

: * Sign up for mailing lists
: * Meet the faculty in your thrust (by attending meetings)
: * There are also monthly PSLC lunches
: * Read up on the projects your thrust is involved in
: * Check out the other thrusts

PSLC Postdocs

2010-12-01T00:15:06Z

GregDyke:

This page contains
* Information about PSLC Postdocs
* Information which is relevant to them and to new Postdocs

It is "maintained" by [[GregDyke]], but anyone should feel free to edit it.

== Who are the PSLC Postdocs? ==

{| border=1 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! Name
! University/Department
! Working With
! PSLC Thrust and Projects
! E-mail
! Research Interests
|-
| [[Suzanne Adlof]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Matthew Bernacki]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Fan Cao]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Min Chi]] || CMU/MLD || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Sherice Clarke]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[John Connelly]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Amy Crosson]] || Pitt/LRDC || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [http://www.emse.fr/~dyke Gregory Dyke] || CMU/LTI || Carolyn Rosé || [[Social And Communicative Factors in Learning | SC Thrust]] 9th grade Biology|| gregdyke@gmail.com || I am interested in the creation of tools to help humans analyse data of computer mediated collaboration (and learning). My PhD resulted in the creation of [http://code.google.com/p/tatiana Tatiana] (Trace Analysis Tool for Interaction ANAlysts), a flexible, extensible tool particularly well suited for the analysis of small group face to face and computer mediated interaction. My current work involves examining and assisting the discovery of how interaction unfolds over time.
|-
| [[Seiji Isotani]] || CMU/HCII || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Laura Halderman]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Ido Roll]] || UBC/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Oscar Saz]] || CMU/LTI || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Stephanie Siler]] || CMU/Psychology || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Zelha Tunc-Pekkan]] || CMU/HCII || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Candace Walkington]] || UTexas/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|}

== Meeting Notes and Schedule ==

=== Nov 29 2010 ===
* Prepared SWOT for AB
* Matt will attend the Grad Student SWOT meeting on Dec 6.
* Decided to setup a wiki page modeled on the Grad Student wiki page (Greg)
* Matt will set up a doodle to plan next set of meetings (let him know of any conferences you are planning to attend over the summer)

== FAQs==

''What lists should I sign up for?''

: pslc-pier-announce -- job announcements from David Klahr mostly
: pslc-post-docs -- the post doc list
: pslc-members and pslc-announce -- both of these seem to be general announcements, one internal and one external?

: The list for the thrust you are a member of.

: Contact Joe Bodnar to be added to these.

''What do the PSCL Postdocs do as an entity?''

: Have regular meetings (about once a month) to discuss issues relevant to our experience as Postdocs

''I'm a new Postdoc. Can you give me a quick overview of PSLC?''

: Big question...

''I'm a new Postdoc. What should I do and who should I talk to?''

: * Sign up for mailing lists
: * Meet the faculty in your thrust (by attending meetings)
: * There are also monthly PSLC lunches
: * Read up on the projects your thrust is involved in
: * Check out the other thrusts

PSLC Postdocs

2010-12-01T00:14:34Z

GregDyke:

This page contains
* Information about PSLC Postdocs
* Information which is relevant to them and to new Postdocs

It is "maintained" by [[GregDyke]], but anyone should feel free to edit it.

== Who are the PSLC Postdocs? ==

{| border=1 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! Name
! University/Department
! Working With
! PSLC Thrust and Projects
! E-mail
! Research Interests
|-
| [[Suzanne Adlof]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Matthew Bernacki]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Fan Cao]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Min Chi]] || CMU/MLD || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Sherice Clarke]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[John Connelly]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Amy Crosson]] || Pitt/LRDC || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [http://www.emse.fr/~dyke Gregory Dyke] || CMU/LTI || Carolyn Rosé || [[Social And Communicative Factors in Learning | SC Thrust]] 9th grade Biology|| gregdyke@gmail.com || I am interested in the creation of tools to help humans analyse data of computer mediated collaboration (and learning). My PhD resulted in the creation of [http://code.google.com/p/tatiana Tatiana] (Trace Analysis Tool for Interaction ANAlysts), a flexible, extensible tool particularly well suited for the analysis of small group face to face and computer mediated interaction. My current work involves examining and assisting the discovery of how interaction unfolds over time.
|-
| [[Seiji Isotani]] || CMU/HCII || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Laura Halderman]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Ido Roll]] || UBC/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Oscar Saz]] || CMU/LTI || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Stephanie Siler]] || CMU/Psychology || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Zelha Tunc-Pekkan]] || CMU/HCII || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Candace Walkington]] || UTexas/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|}

== Meeting Notes and Schedule ==

=== Nov 29 2010 ===
* Prepared SWOT for AB
* Matt will attend the Grad Student SWOT meeting on Dec 6.
* Decided to setup a wiki page modeled on the Grad Student wiki page (Greg)
* Matt will set up a doodle to plan next set of meetings (let him know of any conferences you are planning to attend over the summer)

== FAQs==

''What lists should I sign up for?''

: pslc-pier-announce -- job announcements from David Klahr mostly
: pslc-post-docs -- the post doc list
: pslc-members and pslc-announce -- both of these seem to be general announcements, one internal and one external?

: The list for the thrust you are a member of.

: Contact Joe Bodnar to be added to these.

''What do the PSCL Postdocs do as an entity?''

: Have regular meetings (about once a month) to discuss issues relevant to our experience as Postdocs

''I'm a new Postdoc. Can you give me a quick overview of PSLC?''

: Big question...

''I'm a new Postdoc. What should I do and who should I talk to?''

: * Sign up for mailing lists
: * Meet the faculty in your thrust (by attending meetings)
: * There are also monthly PSLC lunches
: * Read up on the projects your thrust is involved in
: * Check out the other thrusts

PSLC Postdocs

2010-12-01T00:12:45Z

GregDyke:

This page contains
* Information about PSLC Postdocs
* Information which is relevant to them and to new Postdocs

It is "maintained" by [[GregDyke]], but anyone should feel free to edit it.

== Who are the PSLC Postdocs? ==

{| border=1 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! Name
! University/Department
! Working With
! PSLC Thrust and Projects
! E-mail
! Research Interests
|-
| [[Suzanne Adlof]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Matthew Bernacki]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Fan Cao]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Min Chi]] || CMU/MLD || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Sherice Clarke]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[John Connelly]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Amy Crosson]] || Pitt/LRDC || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [http://www.emse.fr/~dyke Gregory Dyke] || CMU/LTI || Carolyn Rosé || [[Social And Communicative Factors in Learning | SC Thrust]] 9th grade Biology|| gregdyke@gmail.com || I am interested in the creation of tools to help humans analyse data of computer mediated collaboration (and learning). My PhD resulted in the creation of [http://code.google.com/p/tatiana Tatiana] (Trace Analysis Tool for Interaction ANAlysts), a flexible, extensible tool particularly well suited for the analysis of small group face to face and computer mediated interaction. My current work involves examining and assisting the discovery of how interaction unfolds over time.
|-
| [[Seiji Isotani]] || CMU/HCII || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Laura Halderman]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Ido Roll]] || UBC/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Oscar Saz]] || CMU/LTI || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Stephanie Siler]] || CMU/Psychology || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Zelha Tunc-Pekkan]] || CMU/HCII || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Candace Walkington]] || UTexas/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|}

== Meeting Notes and Schedule ==

=== Nov 29 2010 ===
* Prepared SWOT for AB
* Matt will attend the Grad Student SWOT meeting on Dec 6.
* Decided to setup a wiki page modeled on the Grad Student wiki page (Greg)
* Matt will set up a doodle to plan next set of meetings (let him know of any conferences you are planning to attend over the summer)

== FAQs==

''What lists should I sign up for?''

pslc-pier-announce -- job announcements from David Klahr mostly
pslc-post-docs -- the post doc list
pslc-members and pslc-announce -- both of these seem to be general announcements, one internal and one external?

The list for the thrust you are a member of.

Contact Joe Bodnar to be added to these.

''What do the PSCL Postdocs do as an entity?''

Have regular meetings (about once a month) to discuss issues relevant to our experience as Postdocs

''I'm a new Postdoc. Can you give me a quick overview of PSLC?''

''I'm a new Postdoc. What should I do and who should I talk to?''

* Sign up for mailing lists
* Meet the faculty in your thrust (by attending meetings)
* There are also monthly PSLC lunches
* Read up on the projects your thrust is involved in
* Check out the other thrusts

PSLC Postdocs

2010-11-30T23:26:10Z

GregDyke:

PSLC Postdocs

2010-11-30T23:24:54Z

GregDyke:

PSLC Postdocs

2010-11-30T23:24:11Z

GregDyke:

PSLC Postdocs

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GregDyke:

PSLC Postdocs

2010-11-30T23:22:35Z

GregDyke:

PSLC Postdocs

2010-11-30T23:19:43Z

GregDyke: /* Who are the PSLC PostDocs? */

PSLC Postdocs

2010-11-30T23:18:02Z

GregDyke:

PSLC Postdocs

2010-11-30T22:24:44Z

GregDyke:

This page contains
* Information about PSLC PostDocs
* Information which is relevant to them and to new PostDocs

It is "maintained" by [[GregDyke]], but anyone should feel free to edit it.

== Who are the PSLC PostDocs? ==

{| border=1 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! Name
! University/Department
! Working With
! PSLC Thrust and Projects
! E-mail
! Research Interests
! Personal Webpage
|-
| Gregory Dyke || CMU/LTI || Carolyn Rosé || [[Social_And_Communicative_Factors_In_Learning | SC Thrust]] || gregdyke@gmail.com || I am interested in the creation of tools to help humans analyse data of computer mediated collaboration (and learning). My PhD resulted in the creation of [[http://code.google.com/p/tatiana | Tatiana]] (Trace Analysis Tool for Interaction ANAlysts), a flexible, extensible tool particularly well suited for the analysis of small group face to face and computer mediated interaction. My current work involves examining and assisting the discovery of how interaction unfolds over time.|| N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Davy_%26_MacWhinney_-_Spanish_Sentence_Production Spanish Sentence Production]
|-

|}

== Meeting Notes==
'''Cognitive Factors'''

''September 24, 2010''

Welcome to the new members!

Send Ruth email if you (or any new collaborators, post-docs, grad students) need to be added to the cognitive factors d-list

Send Jo email if you need to be added to the general PSLC d-list

Advisory board dates - January 20 & 21, 2011 (Thur and Fri)

Speaker Series - Rob Goldstone has agreed to come (probably before the AB)

Handout: Cognitive Factors Thrust Plan, if see you see errors send them to Chuck (link to document coming soon)

In general for Annual Report and Strategic Plan it is important to have non-text contributions; send screenshots/pictures of interventions and/or graphs of results as they come up

Also as a general reminder, it is never too early to send bullets of exciting findings, usually collected at least once a year

Talk: How does learning to write help learning to read Chinese (fMRI study) - Fan Cao Abstract Two types of instructions were given to a group of English speakers who learn Chinese as a L2. One is character writing and the other is pinyin writing. The hypothesis is that writing will facilitate the integration of orthographic, phonological and semantic representations by involving both perception and production and by emphasizing the special features of Chinese characters. fMRI scans found that sensory-motor cortex and visual-spatial representation cortex are more involved if the subject had writing experience. We also found that writing training produced more elaborated representations of orthography, phonology and semantics in the brain as compared to pinyin training.

Slides here: Media:PSLC_Sep_24_1.pdf

Next up: Colleen Davy will speak at the October meeting, likely the last week of Oct at CMU

'''Grad student meeting notes: 11/15/2010'''

1) Discussion of iSLC Conference: March 25th-27th, 2011

Theme: researching communication and communicating language

If you are interested in giving a talk or a poster, e-mail Colleen Davy at cdavy1@andrew.cmu.edu. You might also be interested in some of the workshops at iSLC. Current proposals for workshops include sessions on CLAN and the R statistical package.

Colleen needs organizers to help decide on the placement/division of themes for poster sessions and symposia.

Graduate students need to discuss their role in the Ultimate Block Party at the iSLC.

2) Advisory board meeting: January 20th -21st

Theme: PSLC sustainability

Graduate students and post-docs will present a SWOT analysis.

Grad students and post docs can present posters at the session. Grad students and post-docs from all thrusts are encouraged to present posters.

3) Meeting with post-docs: December 6th, 2010

We will prepare a joint post-doc/grad SWOT analysis to present at the advisory board meeting.

== FAQs==

'''1. What does it take to be a PSLC grad student?'''

Well, there are basically three ways you can be considered a PSLC grad student.

a. You work on a project that receives funding from the PSLC.

b. Your advisor or collaborator receives funding from the PSLC and asks you to be involved.

c. You want to be a PSLC grad student.

'''2. What types of opportunities does the PSLC have for a grad student like me?'''

There are a variety of different levels of involvement and types of activities that the PSLC offers.

For the casual grad student, the PSLC organizes a speaker series with talks that may be of interest to students interested in the learning sciences. These are open to whomever wishes to go. There are also monthly lunch meetings where people associated with the PSLC can give a talk on their work.

The grad student community also hopes to organize events catered toward grad students, with topics like applying for grants, finding jobs, collaboration with people at other universities, etc. These are also open to the public.

For those who wish to get more involved, the grad student community also has monthly meetings to discuss center-wide issues, read and discuss articles we believe are relevant, plan future events, etc. Again, these are open to the public.

Finally, each thrust has regular or semi-regular meetings to discuss the thrust's theoretical framework, set the research agenda, and discuss the progress of projects within that thrust. While these are open to anyone, they're probably of limited interest unless you currently have or have had a project affiliated with the thrust.

'''3. What is expected of me as a PSLC grad student?'''

If you receive funding from the PSLC, you are expected, to the extent it is possible, to attend the thrust meetings for your relevant thrust, and attend the monthly PSLC lunches. The grad student community also encourages you to come to the grad student monthly meetings, of course.

If you don't receive funding from the PSLC, but still wish to be a part of the grad student community, your level of involvement is up to you.

'''How do I find out about upcoming talks/meetings/events?'''

One option is to check the Announcements section of this page. A possibly better option would be to get on our mailing list. To do that, e-mail Jo Bodnar at jobodnar AT cs.cmu.edu and ask to be put on the PSLC general mailing list and grad student mailing list.

There is also a regularly updated calendar at our [http://www.learnlab.org main webpage] that is updated regularly and gives a fairly complete account of most PSLC events.

4. '''I already consider myself a PSLC grad, and want to be included on this page! What do I have to do?'''

Well the great thing about the wiki page is that anybody can update it whenever they want! So, if you have an account here, and you know how to edit tables, you can just log in and add yourself!

The table formatting is a bit weird and hard to follow, so if you want to add yourself, the easiest thing to do is just copy this text:

<pre>
|-
| Name || University || Advisor || e-mail address || Bio || Personal Webpage || Link to PSLC project page [Project page URL Project page title]
</pre>

and paste it into the appropriate place on the table. With your own information, of course.

If you don't have an account already, you can easily request one (NOTE: I forget how to do it- I'll need to add that). Once you have an account, you can just click "Edit" above the table, and you can add yourself.

5. '''But that's such a pain! Isn't there an easier way?!'''

There sure is! If you don't want to make all that effort just to have your name and e-mail address on a page, just send your info (you could even put it in the format given above!) to our Wikimaster (yep, we made that word up!), Ben Friedline, at bef25 AT pitt.edu, and he'll put it on here.

== Who are the PSLC grads? ==

{| border=1 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! Grad Student Name
! University/Department
! Advisor
! E-mail
! Bio
! Personal Webpage
! PSLC Projects
|-
| Colleen Davy || Carnegie Mellon/Psychology || Brian MacWhinney || cdavy1@andrew.cmu.edu || I am interested in how adult second language learners develop fluent speaking skills in their second language. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Davy_%26_MacWhinney_-_Spanish_Sentence_Production Spanish Sentence Production]
|-
| Susan Dunlap || University of Pittsburgh || Charles Perfetti || sud4@pitt.edu || My research areas include second language learning, reading, and spelling || n/a || [http://www.learnlab.org]
|-
| Benjamin Friedline || University of Pittsburgh || Alan Juffs || bef25@pitt.edu || I am interested in how adult second language learners acquire morphology in a second language. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Juffs_-_Feature_Focus_in_Word_Learning Feature Focus in Word Learning]
|-
| Ruth Wylie || Carnegie Mellon, HCII || Ken Koedinger & Teruko Mitamura || rwylie@cs.cmu.edu || I'm interested in second language learning and self-explanation. || [http://ruthwylie.wordpress.com/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwylie] || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Wylie_-_Intelligent_Writing_Tutor Self-Explanation and ESL]
|-
| Mary Lou Vercellotti || University of Pittsburgh || Dr. Nel de Jong || marylou.vercellotti@gmail.com || My research looks at complexity, accuracy, and fluency in the oral production of English as a second language. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Fostering_fluency_in_second_language_learning Refinement and Fluency]
|-
| Turadg Aleahmad || Carnegie Mellon, HCII || Ken Koedinger & John Zimmerman || turadg@cmu.edu || My research is in design methods for theory-driven educational technology. || [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~taleahma] ||
|-
| Nora Presson || Carnegie Mellon, Psychology || Brian MacWhinney || presson@cmu.edu || I am studying how practice conditions can improve learning of second language grammar, especially testing the effects of explicit instruction. || || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Presson_%26_MacWhinney_-_Second_Language_Grammar Second Language Grammar Instruction]
|-
| Daniel Belenky || University of Pittsburgh || Timothy Nokes || dmb83@pitt.edu || I am interesting in issues of motivation and cognition. Specifically, I have been studying how achievement goals influence transfer. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Nokes_-_Dialectical_Interaction_and_Robust_Learning Dialectical Interaction and Robust Learning]
|}

== Science of Learning Relevant Courses ==
The PIER program offers three courses -- see the [http://www.cmu.edu/pier PIER Web page]

See also the courses taught be any of the PSLC faculty.

(Please add the names of relevant courses and web pointers if possible!)

<pre>
05832 / 05432 Cognitive Modeling & Intelligent Tutoring Systems
3:00pm-4:20pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Fall 2010
Room 3002, Newell-Simon Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
9 units
Dr. Vincent Aleven, aleven@cs.cmu.edu
</pre>

Students in this course will learn about the Cognitive Tutor technology that has been demonstrated to dramatically enhance student learning in domains like math, science, and computer programming. This type of tutoring software is currently in use in 2,700 schools around the country and is used extensively as platform for learning sciences research. The technology is grounded in artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and cognitive task analysis. Students will learn data-driven and theoretical methods for analyzing human problem solving and will learn to use such data to inform the design of intelligent tutoring systems. Course projects will focus on the development of an intelligent tutor using CTAT, the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (see http://ctat.pact.cs.cmu.edu). Some assignments will focus on creating cognitive models in the Jess production rule modeling language.

Students should either have programming skills, or experience in the cognitive psychology of human problem solving, or HCI / design skills, or permission from the instructor.

PSLC Postdocs

2010-11-30T22:23:43Z

GregDyke:

This page contains
* Information about PSLC PostDocs
* Information which is relevant to them and to new PostDocs

It is "maintained" by [[GregDyke]], but anyone should feel free to edit it.

== Who are the PSLC PostDocs? ==

{| border=1 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! Name
! University/Department
! Working With
! PSLC Thrust and Projects
! E-mail
! Research Interests
! Personal Webpage
|-
| Gregory Dyke || CMU/LTI || Carolyn Rosé || [[Social_And_Communicative_Factors_In_Learning || SC Thrust]] || gregdyke@gmail.com || I am interested in the creation of tools to help humans analyse data of computer mediated collaboration (and learning). My PhD resulted in the creation of [[http://code.google.com/p/tatiana|| Tatiana]] (Trace Analysis Tool for Interaction ANAlysts), a flexible, extensible tool particularly well suited for the analysis of small group face to face and computer mediated interaction. My current work involves examining and assisting the discovery of how interaction unfolds over time.|| N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Davy_%26_MacWhinney_-_Spanish_Sentence_Production Spanish Sentence Production]
|-

|}

== Meeting Notes==
'''Cognitive Factors'''

''September 24, 2010''

Welcome to the new members!

Send Ruth email if you (or any new collaborators, post-docs, grad students) need to be added to the cognitive factors d-list

Send Jo email if you need to be added to the general PSLC d-list

Advisory board dates - January 20 & 21, 2011 (Thur and Fri)

Speaker Series - Rob Goldstone has agreed to come (probably before the AB)

Handout: Cognitive Factors Thrust Plan, if see you see errors send them to Chuck (link to document coming soon)

In general for Annual Report and Strategic Plan it is important to have non-text contributions; send screenshots/pictures of interventions and/or graphs of results as they come up

Also as a general reminder, it is never too early to send bullets of exciting findings, usually collected at least once a year

Talk: How does learning to write help learning to read Chinese (fMRI study) - Fan Cao Abstract Two types of instructions were given to a group of English speakers who learn Chinese as a L2. One is character writing and the other is pinyin writing. The hypothesis is that writing will facilitate the integration of orthographic, phonological and semantic representations by involving both perception and production and by emphasizing the special features of Chinese characters. fMRI scans found that sensory-motor cortex and visual-spatial representation cortex are more involved if the subject had writing experience. We also found that writing training produced more elaborated representations of orthography, phonology and semantics in the brain as compared to pinyin training.

Slides here: Media:PSLC_Sep_24_1.pdf

Next up: Colleen Davy will speak at the October meeting, likely the last week of Oct at CMU

'''Grad student meeting notes: 11/15/2010'''

1) Discussion of iSLC Conference: March 25th-27th, 2011

Theme: researching communication and communicating language

If you are interested in giving a talk or a poster, e-mail Colleen Davy at cdavy1@andrew.cmu.edu. You might also be interested in some of the workshops at iSLC. Current proposals for workshops include sessions on CLAN and the R statistical package.

Colleen needs organizers to help decide on the placement/division of themes for poster sessions and symposia.

Graduate students need to discuss their role in the Ultimate Block Party at the iSLC.

2) Advisory board meeting: January 20th -21st

Theme: PSLC sustainability

Graduate students and post-docs will present a SWOT analysis.

Grad students and post docs can present posters at the session. Grad students and post-docs from all thrusts are encouraged to present posters.

3) Meeting with post-docs: December 6th, 2010

We will prepare a joint post-doc/grad SWOT analysis to present at the advisory board meeting.

== FAQs==

'''1. What does it take to be a PSLC grad student?'''

Well, there are basically three ways you can be considered a PSLC grad student.

a. You work on a project that receives funding from the PSLC.

b. Your advisor or collaborator receives funding from the PSLC and asks you to be involved.

c. You want to be a PSLC grad student.

'''2. What types of opportunities does the PSLC have for a grad student like me?'''

There are a variety of different levels of involvement and types of activities that the PSLC offers.

For the casual grad student, the PSLC organizes a speaker series with talks that may be of interest to students interested in the learning sciences. These are open to whomever wishes to go. There are also monthly lunch meetings where people associated with the PSLC can give a talk on their work.

The grad student community also hopes to organize events catered toward grad students, with topics like applying for grants, finding jobs, collaboration with people at other universities, etc. These are also open to the public.

For those who wish to get more involved, the grad student community also has monthly meetings to discuss center-wide issues, read and discuss articles we believe are relevant, plan future events, etc. Again, these are open to the public.

Finally, each thrust has regular or semi-regular meetings to discuss the thrust's theoretical framework, set the research agenda, and discuss the progress of projects within that thrust. While these are open to anyone, they're probably of limited interest unless you currently have or have had a project affiliated with the thrust.

'''3. What is expected of me as a PSLC grad student?'''

If you receive funding from the PSLC, you are expected, to the extent it is possible, to attend the thrust meetings for your relevant thrust, and attend the monthly PSLC lunches. The grad student community also encourages you to come to the grad student monthly meetings, of course.

If you don't receive funding from the PSLC, but still wish to be a part of the grad student community, your level of involvement is up to you.

'''How do I find out about upcoming talks/meetings/events?'''

One option is to check the Announcements section of this page. A possibly better option would be to get on our mailing list. To do that, e-mail Jo Bodnar at jobodnar AT cs.cmu.edu and ask to be put on the PSLC general mailing list and grad student mailing list.

There is also a regularly updated calendar at our [http://www.learnlab.org main webpage] that is updated regularly and gives a fairly complete account of most PSLC events.

4. '''I already consider myself a PSLC grad, and want to be included on this page! What do I have to do?'''

Well the great thing about the wiki page is that anybody can update it whenever they want! So, if you have an account here, and you know how to edit tables, you can just log in and add yourself!

The table formatting is a bit weird and hard to follow, so if you want to add yourself, the easiest thing to do is just copy this text:

<pre>
|-
| Name || University || Advisor || e-mail address || Bio || Personal Webpage || Link to PSLC project page [Project page URL Project page title]
</pre>

and paste it into the appropriate place on the table. With your own information, of course.

If you don't have an account already, you can easily request one (NOTE: I forget how to do it- I'll need to add that). Once you have an account, you can just click "Edit" above the table, and you can add yourself.

5. '''But that's such a pain! Isn't there an easier way?!'''

There sure is! If you don't want to make all that effort just to have your name and e-mail address on a page, just send your info (you could even put it in the format given above!) to our Wikimaster (yep, we made that word up!), Ben Friedline, at bef25 AT pitt.edu, and he'll put it on here.

== Who are the PSLC grads? ==

{| border=1 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! Grad Student Name
! University/Department
! Advisor
! E-mail
! Bio
! Personal Webpage
! PSLC Projects
|-
| Colleen Davy || Carnegie Mellon/Psychology || Brian MacWhinney || cdavy1@andrew.cmu.edu || I am interested in how adult second language learners develop fluent speaking skills in their second language. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Davy_%26_MacWhinney_-_Spanish_Sentence_Production Spanish Sentence Production]
|-
| Susan Dunlap || University of Pittsburgh || Charles Perfetti || sud4@pitt.edu || My research areas include second language learning, reading, and spelling || n/a || [http://www.learnlab.org]
|-
| Benjamin Friedline || University of Pittsburgh || Alan Juffs || bef25@pitt.edu || I am interested in how adult second language learners acquire morphology in a second language. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Juffs_-_Feature_Focus_in_Word_Learning Feature Focus in Word Learning]
|-
| Ruth Wylie || Carnegie Mellon, HCII || Ken Koedinger & Teruko Mitamura || rwylie@cs.cmu.edu || I'm interested in second language learning and self-explanation. || [http://ruthwylie.wordpress.com/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwylie] || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Wylie_-_Intelligent_Writing_Tutor Self-Explanation and ESL]
|-
| Mary Lou Vercellotti || University of Pittsburgh || Dr. Nel de Jong || marylou.vercellotti@gmail.com || My research looks at complexity, accuracy, and fluency in the oral production of English as a second language. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Fostering_fluency_in_second_language_learning Refinement and Fluency]
|-
| Turadg Aleahmad || Carnegie Mellon, HCII || Ken Koedinger & John Zimmerman || turadg@cmu.edu || My research is in design methods for theory-driven educational technology. || [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~taleahma] ||
|-
| Nora Presson || Carnegie Mellon, Psychology || Brian MacWhinney || presson@cmu.edu || I am studying how practice conditions can improve learning of second language grammar, especially testing the effects of explicit instruction. || || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Presson_%26_MacWhinney_-_Second_Language_Grammar Second Language Grammar Instruction]
|-
| Daniel Belenky || University of Pittsburgh || Timothy Nokes || dmb83@pitt.edu || I am interesting in issues of motivation and cognition. Specifically, I have been studying how achievement goals influence transfer. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Nokes_-_Dialectical_Interaction_and_Robust_Learning Dialectical Interaction and Robust Learning]
|}

== Science of Learning Relevant Courses ==
The PIER program offers three courses -- see the [http://www.cmu.edu/pier PIER Web page]

See also the courses taught be any of the PSLC faculty.

(Please add the names of relevant courses and web pointers if possible!)

<pre>
05832 / 05432 Cognitive Modeling & Intelligent Tutoring Systems
3:00pm-4:20pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Fall 2010
Room 3002, Newell-Simon Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
9 units
Dr. Vincent Aleven, aleven@cs.cmu.edu
</pre>

Students in this course will learn about the Cognitive Tutor technology that has been demonstrated to dramatically enhance student learning in domains like math, science, and computer programming. This type of tutoring software is currently in use in 2,700 schools around the country and is used extensively as platform for learning sciences research. The technology is grounded in artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and cognitive task analysis. Students will learn data-driven and theoretical methods for analyzing human problem solving and will learn to use such data to inform the design of intelligent tutoring systems. Course projects will focus on the development of an intelligent tutor using CTAT, the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (see http://ctat.pact.cs.cmu.edu). Some assignments will focus on creating cognitive models in the Jess production rule modeling language.

Students should either have programming skills, or experience in the cognitive psychology of human problem solving, or HCI / design skills, or permission from the instructor.

PSLC Postdocs

2010-11-30T22:08:50Z

GregDyke: New page: This page contains * Information about PSLC PostDocs * Information which is relevant to them and to new PostDocs It is "maintained" by GregDyke, but anyone should feel free to edit it. ...

This page contains
* Information about PSLC PostDocs
* Information which is relevant to them and to new PostDocs

It is "maintained" by GregDyke, but anyone should feel free to edit it.

== Who are the PSLC PostDocs? ==

{| border=1 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! Name
! University/Department
! Supervisor
! E-mail
! Research Interests
! Personal Webpage
! PSLC Projects
|-
| Colleen Davy || Carnegie Mellon/Psychology || Brian MacWhinney || cdavy1@andrew.cmu.edu || I am interested in how adult second language learners develop fluent speaking skills in their second language. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Davy_%26_MacWhinney_-_Spanish_Sentence_Production Spanish Sentence Production]
|-
| Susan Dunlap || University of Pittsburgh || Charles Perfetti || sud4@pitt.edu || My research areas include second language learning, reading, and spelling || n/a || [http://www.learnlab.org]
|-
| Benjamin Friedline || University of Pittsburgh || Alan Juffs || bef25@pitt.edu || I am interested in how adult second language learners acquire morphology in a second language. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Juffs_-_Feature_Focus_in_Word_Learning Feature Focus in Word Learning]
|-
| Ruth Wylie || Carnegie Mellon, HCII || Ken Koedinger & Teruko Mitamura || rwylie@cs.cmu.edu || I'm interested in second language learning and self-explanation. || [http://ruthwylie.wordpress.com/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwylie] || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Wylie_-_Intelligent_Writing_Tutor Self-Explanation and ESL]
|-
| Mary Lou Vercellotti || University of Pittsburgh || Dr. Nel de Jong || marylou.vercellotti@gmail.com || My research looks at complexity, accuracy, and fluency in the oral production of English as a second language. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Fostering_fluency_in_second_language_learning Refinement and Fluency]
|-
| Turadg Aleahmad || Carnegie Mellon, HCII || Ken Koedinger & John Zimmerman || turadg@cmu.edu || My research is in design methods for theory-driven educational technology. || [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~taleahma] ||
|-
| Nora Presson || Carnegie Mellon, Psychology || Brian MacWhinney || presson@cmu.edu || I am studying how practice conditions can improve learning of second language grammar, especially testing the effects of explicit instruction. || || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Presson_%26_MacWhinney_-_Second_Language_Grammar Second Language Grammar Instruction]
|-
| Daniel Belenky || University of Pittsburgh || Timothy Nokes || dmb83@pitt.edu || I am interesting in issues of motivation and cognition. Specifically, I have been studying how achievement goals influence transfer. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Nokes_-_Dialectical_Interaction_and_Robust_Learning Dialectical Interaction and Robust Learning]
|}

== Meeting Notes==
'''Cognitive Factors'''

''September 24, 2010''

Welcome to the new members!

Send Ruth email if you (or any new collaborators, post-docs, grad students) need to be added to the cognitive factors d-list

Send Jo email if you need to be added to the general PSLC d-list

Advisory board dates - January 20 & 21, 2011 (Thur and Fri)

Speaker Series - Rob Goldstone has agreed to come (probably before the AB)

Handout: Cognitive Factors Thrust Plan, if see you see errors send them to Chuck (link to document coming soon)

In general for Annual Report and Strategic Plan it is important to have non-text contributions; send screenshots/pictures of interventions and/or graphs of results as they come up

Also as a general reminder, it is never too early to send bullets of exciting findings, usually collected at least once a year

Talk: How does learning to write help learning to read Chinese (fMRI study) - Fan Cao Abstract Two types of instructions were given to a group of English speakers who learn Chinese as a L2. One is character writing and the other is pinyin writing. The hypothesis is that writing will facilitate the integration of orthographic, phonological and semantic representations by involving both perception and production and by emphasizing the special features of Chinese characters. fMRI scans found that sensory-motor cortex and visual-spatial representation cortex are more involved if the subject had writing experience. We also found that writing training produced more elaborated representations of orthography, phonology and semantics in the brain as compared to pinyin training.

Slides here: Media:PSLC_Sep_24_1.pdf

Next up: Colleen Davy will speak at the October meeting, likely the last week of Oct at CMU

'''Grad student meeting notes: 11/15/2010'''

1) Discussion of iSLC Conference: March 25th-27th, 2011

Theme: researching communication and communicating language

If you are interested in giving a talk or a poster, e-mail Colleen Davy at cdavy1@andrew.cmu.edu. You might also be interested in some of the workshops at iSLC. Current proposals for workshops include sessions on CLAN and the R statistical package.

Colleen needs organizers to help decide on the placement/division of themes for poster sessions and symposia.

Graduate students need to discuss their role in the Ultimate Block Party at the iSLC.

2) Advisory board meeting: January 20th -21st

Theme: PSLC sustainability

Graduate students and post-docs will present a SWOT analysis.

Grad students and post docs can present posters at the session. Grad students and post-docs from all thrusts are encouraged to present posters.

3) Meeting with post-docs: December 6th, 2010

We will prepare a joint post-doc/grad SWOT analysis to present at the advisory board meeting.

== FAQs==

'''1. What does it take to be a PSLC grad student?'''

Well, there are basically three ways you can be considered a PSLC grad student.

a. You work on a project that receives funding from the PSLC.

b. Your advisor or collaborator receives funding from the PSLC and asks you to be involved.

c. You want to be a PSLC grad student.

'''2. What types of opportunities does the PSLC have for a grad student like me?'''

There are a variety of different levels of involvement and types of activities that the PSLC offers.

For the casual grad student, the PSLC organizes a speaker series with talks that may be of interest to students interested in the learning sciences. These are open to whomever wishes to go. There are also monthly lunch meetings where people associated with the PSLC can give a talk on their work.

The grad student community also hopes to organize events catered toward grad students, with topics like applying for grants, finding jobs, collaboration with people at other universities, etc. These are also open to the public.

For those who wish to get more involved, the grad student community also has monthly meetings to discuss center-wide issues, read and discuss articles we believe are relevant, plan future events, etc. Again, these are open to the public.

Finally, each thrust has regular or semi-regular meetings to discuss the thrust's theoretical framework, set the research agenda, and discuss the progress of projects within that thrust. While these are open to anyone, they're probably of limited interest unless you currently have or have had a project affiliated with the thrust.

'''3. What is expected of me as a PSLC grad student?'''

If you receive funding from the PSLC, you are expected, to the extent it is possible, to attend the thrust meetings for your relevant thrust, and attend the monthly PSLC lunches. The grad student community also encourages you to come to the grad student monthly meetings, of course.

If you don't receive funding from the PSLC, but still wish to be a part of the grad student community, your level of involvement is up to you.

'''How do I find out about upcoming talks/meetings/events?'''

One option is to check the Announcements section of this page. A possibly better option would be to get on our mailing list. To do that, e-mail Jo Bodnar at jobodnar AT cs.cmu.edu and ask to be put on the PSLC general mailing list and grad student mailing list.

There is also a regularly updated calendar at our [http://www.learnlab.org main webpage] that is updated regularly and gives a fairly complete account of most PSLC events.

4. '''I already consider myself a PSLC grad, and want to be included on this page! What do I have to do?'''

Well the great thing about the wiki page is that anybody can update it whenever they want! So, if you have an account here, and you know how to edit tables, you can just log in and add yourself!

The table formatting is a bit weird and hard to follow, so if you want to add yourself, the easiest thing to do is just copy this text:

<pre>
|-
| Name || University || Advisor || e-mail address || Bio || Personal Webpage || Link to PSLC project page [Project page URL Project page title]
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and paste it into the appropriate place on the table. With your own information, of course.

If you don't have an account already, you can easily request one (NOTE: I forget how to do it- I'll need to add that). Once you have an account, you can just click "Edit" above the table, and you can add yourself.

5. '''But that's such a pain! Isn't there an easier way?!'''

There sure is! If you don't want to make all that effort just to have your name and e-mail address on a page, just send your info (you could even put it in the format given above!) to our Wikimaster (yep, we made that word up!), Ben Friedline, at bef25 AT pitt.edu, and he'll put it on here.

== Who are the PSLC grads? ==

{| border=1 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align: left;"
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! Grad Student Name
! University/Department
! Advisor
! E-mail
! Bio
! Personal Webpage
! PSLC Projects
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| Colleen Davy || Carnegie Mellon/Psychology || Brian MacWhinney || cdavy1@andrew.cmu.edu || I am interested in how adult second language learners develop fluent speaking skills in their second language. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Davy_%26_MacWhinney_-_Spanish_Sentence_Production Spanish Sentence Production]
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| Susan Dunlap || University of Pittsburgh || Charles Perfetti || sud4@pitt.edu || My research areas include second language learning, reading, and spelling || n/a || [http://www.learnlab.org]
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| Benjamin Friedline || University of Pittsburgh || Alan Juffs || bef25@pitt.edu || I am interested in how adult second language learners acquire morphology in a second language. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Juffs_-_Feature_Focus_in_Word_Learning Feature Focus in Word Learning]
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| Ruth Wylie || Carnegie Mellon, HCII || Ken Koedinger & Teruko Mitamura || rwylie@cs.cmu.edu || I'm interested in second language learning and self-explanation. || [http://ruthwylie.wordpress.com/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwylie] || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Wylie_-_Intelligent_Writing_Tutor Self-Explanation and ESL]
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| Mary Lou Vercellotti || University of Pittsburgh || Dr. Nel de Jong || marylou.vercellotti@gmail.com || My research looks at complexity, accuracy, and fluency in the oral production of English as a second language. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Fostering_fluency_in_second_language_learning Refinement and Fluency]
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| Turadg Aleahmad || Carnegie Mellon, HCII || Ken Koedinger & John Zimmerman || turadg@cmu.edu || My research is in design methods for theory-driven educational technology. || [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~taleahma] ||
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| Nora Presson || Carnegie Mellon, Psychology || Brian MacWhinney || presson@cmu.edu || I am studying how practice conditions can improve learning of second language grammar, especially testing the effects of explicit instruction. || || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Presson_%26_MacWhinney_-_Second_Language_Grammar Second Language Grammar Instruction]
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| Daniel Belenky || University of Pittsburgh || Timothy Nokes || dmb83@pitt.edu || I am interesting in issues of motivation and cognition. Specifically, I have been studying how achievement goals influence transfer. || N/A || [http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Nokes_-_Dialectical_Interaction_and_Robust_Learning Dialectical Interaction and Robust Learning]
|}

== Science of Learning Relevant Courses ==
The PIER program offers three courses -- see the [http://www.cmu.edu/pier PIER Web page]

See also the courses taught be any of the PSLC faculty.

(Please add the names of relevant courses and web pointers if possible!)

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05832 / 05432 Cognitive Modeling & Intelligent Tutoring Systems
3:00pm-4:20pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Fall 2010
Room 3002, Newell-Simon Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
9 units
Dr. Vincent Aleven, aleven@cs.cmu.edu
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Students in this course will learn about the Cognitive Tutor technology that has been demonstrated to dramatically enhance student learning in domains like math, science, and computer programming. This type of tutoring software is currently in use in 2,700 schools around the country and is used extensively as platform for learning sciences research. The technology is grounded in artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and cognitive task analysis. Students will learn data-driven and theoretical methods for analyzing human problem solving and will learn to use such data to inform the design of intelligent tutoring systems. Course projects will focus on the development of an intelligent tutor using CTAT, the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (see http://ctat.pact.cs.cmu.edu). Some assignments will focus on creating cognitive models in the Jess production rule modeling language.

Students should either have programming skills, or experience in the cognitive psychology of human problem solving, or HCI / design skills, or permission from the instructor.