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* Information which is relevant to them and to new Postdocs
  
 
It is "maintained" by [[GregDyke]], but anyone should feel free to edit it.
 
It is "maintained" by [[GregDyke]], but anyone should feel free to edit it.
 
    
 
    
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== Who are the PSLC PostDocs? ==
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== Who are the PSLC Postdocs? ==
  
 
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| 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]
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| [[Suzanne Adlof]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
 
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| [[Matthew Bernacki]] || Pitt/LRDC || Tim Nokes, Vincent Aleven || [[Metacognition and Motivation]]; [[Nokes - 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.
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| [[Fan Cao]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
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| [[Min Chi]] || CMU/MLD || ? || ? || ? || ?
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| [[Sherice Clarke]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
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| [[John Connelly]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
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| [[Amy Crosson]] || Pitt/LRDC || ? || ? || ? || ?
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| [http://www.emse.fr/~dyke Gregory Dyke]  || CMU/LTI || Carolyn Rosé || [[Social And Communicative Factors in Learning | Social and Communicative Factors Thrust]] <br /> 9th grade Biology <br /> 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.
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| [http://isotani.com Seiji Isotani] || CMU/HCII || [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bmclaren Bruce McLaren] || [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bmclaren/projects/AdaptErrEx/index.html AdaptErrEx Project] || sisotani@gmail.com || <ul><li>Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning<li>Intelligent Tutoring System<li>Ontologies<li>Math Education</ul>
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| [[Laura Halderman]] || Pitt/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
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| [[Ido Roll]] || UBC/? || ? || ? || ? || ?
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| [http://dihana.cps.unizar.es/~oscar/cmu/index.html Oscar Saz] || CMU/LTI || Maxine Eskenazi || Cognitive Factors (Fulbright funding) || oskarsaz@unizar.es ||  My interest is language learning, especially pronunciation and phonology. For my PhD in Spain, we developed a set of multimodal tools for language training and rehabilitation of impaired children (http://www.vocaliza.es). Here in CMU, I will work in developing tutors that prevent second language learners from making pronunciation errors which can generate a confusion in the understanding of the message by a human listener, as we have the hypothesis that not all pronunciation errors affect in the same way the communication among humans.
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| [[Stephanie Siler]] || CMU/Psychology || ? || ? || ? || ?
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| [[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.
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| [[Candace Walkington]] || University of Wisconsin-Madison || Mitchell Nathan, Jim Greeno || Motivation & Metacognition - The Impact of Context Personalization on Problem Solving in Algebra || cwalkington@wisc.edu || personalization, motivation, story problems
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| [[Michael Yudelson]] || CMU/HCII || Phil Pavlik || ? || ? || User modeling, Educational Data Mining
 
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== Meeting Notes and Schedule ==
  
  
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== Meeting Notes==
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====''' UPCOMING MEETINGS '''====
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'''Cognitive Factors'''
 
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''September 24, 2010''
 
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Welcome to the new members!
 
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Send Ruth email if you (or any new collaborators, post-docs, grad students) need to be added to the cognitive factors d-list
 
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Send Jo email if you need to be added to the general PSLC d-list
 
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Advisory board dates - January 20 & 21, 2011 (Thur and Fri)
 
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Speaker Series - Rob Goldstone has agreed to come (probably before the AB)
 
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Handout: Cognitive Factors Thrust Plan, if see you see errors send them to Chuck (link to document coming soon)
 
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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
 
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Also as a general reminder, it is never too early to send bullets of exciting findings, usually collected at least once a year
 
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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.
 
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Slides here: Media:PSLC_Sep_24_1.pdf
 
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Next up: Colleen Davy will speak at the October meeting, likely the last week of Oct at CMU
 
  
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'''Grad student meeting notes: 11/15/2010'''
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Summer meetings continue and include presentations of post-docs' current projects and research agendas to their peers.
  
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1) Discussion of iSLC Conference: March 25th-27th, 2011
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Dates and topics for Fall meetings are forthcoming (by mid August)
  
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Theme: researching communication and communicating language
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===='''PAST MEETINGS'''====
  
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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.
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=== Apr 2011 ===
  
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Colleen needs organizers to help decide on the placement/division of themes for poster sessions and symposia.
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Joint meeting with PSLC junior faculty "Setting up a lab." Carolyn Rose
  
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Graduate students need to discuss their role in the Ultimate Block Party at the iSLC.
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=== Mar  2011 ===
  
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2) Advisory board meeting: January 20th -21st
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* A joint meeting was held with PSLC junior faculty. Topic was "Designing Research Programs"
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* the event was well attended by both postdocs and junior faculty
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* conversation was vibrant, with conversation focusing on aligning one's research program to a compelling problem for both researchers and the organizations that fund research (IES, NSF)
  
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Theme: PSLC sustainability
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=== Feb  2011 ===
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* informal debrief of AB visit
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* set agenda for Spring AB visits, collaboration with Jr Faculty members
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  getting a lab up and running
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    How to vet students (grad, work studies)
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    Organizational strategies (personnel)
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    Management strategies
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    Lab meetings
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    Wiki
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    People vs pipeline
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  research programs
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    designing it
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    refining it (or refocusing it)
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    maintaining it when moving to a new space
  
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Graduate students and post-docs will present a SWOT analysis.
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* Matt Bernacki informally discussed research program & Model of Contextualized Learning
  
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Grad students and post docs can present posters at the session. Grad students and post-docs from all thrusts are encouraged to present posters.
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=== Jan  2011 ===
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* SWOT delivered 1/21/11 to advisory board in morning breakout session.
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* PSLC lunches will be organized by Sherice Clarke from Feb-August 2011; spring schedule will be announced later this month
  
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3) Meeting with post-docs: December 6th, 2010
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===Dec  2010 ===
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* meeting cancelled
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* representative met with grad students; completed SWOT
  
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We will prepare a joint post-doc/grad SWOT analysis to present at the advisory board meeting.
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=== Nov 2010 ===
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* Prepared SWOT for AB
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* Matt will attend the Grad Student SWOT meeting on Dec 6.
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* Decided to setup a wiki page modeled on the Grad Student wiki page (Greg)
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* 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==
 
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'''1.  What does it take to be a PSLC grad student?'''
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''What lists should I sign up for?''
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'''2.  What types of opportunities does the PSLC have for a grad student like me?''' 
 
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There are a variety of different levels of involvement and types of activities that the PSLC offers. 
 
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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. 
 
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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. 
 
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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. 
 
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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. 
 
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'''3.  What is expected of me as a PSLC grad student?'''
 
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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.
 
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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. 
 
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'''How do I find out about upcoming talks/meetings/events?'''
 
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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. 
 
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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.
 
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4.  '''I already consider myself a PSLC grad, and want to be included on this page!  What do I have to do?'''
 
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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! 
 
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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:
 
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and paste it into the appropriate place on the table.  With your own information, of course. 
 
  
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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.  
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: pslc-pier-announce -- guest speaker, job, and special announcements from David Klahr and other PIER members
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: pslc-post-docs -- the post doc list
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: pslc-members and pslc-announce -- both of these are for general PSLC announcements, one internal and one external
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: The list for your thrust.
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: Contact Jo Bodnar (jbodnar@cs.cmu.edu) to be added to these.
  
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: * if you are a CMU-affiliated PSLC post-doc, you should also email Liz Rangel (lrangel@pitt.edu) for LRDC's weekly mailing which includes announcements for events hosted at LRDC as well as position and general announcements.
  
  
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''What do the PSLC Postdocs do as an entity?''
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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.
 
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== Who are the PSLC grads? ==
 
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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]
 
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== Science of Learning Relevant Courses ==
 
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The PIER program offers three courses -- see the [http://www.cmu.edu/pier PIER Web page]
 
  
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See also the courses taught be any of the PSLC faculty.
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: Have regular meetings (about once a month) to discuss issues relevant to our experience as Postdocs. These should also encourage smaller meetings to promote cross-thrust collaboration when our research goals overlap.
  
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(Please add the names of relevant courses and web pointers if possible!)
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''I'm a new Postdoc. Can you give me a quick overview of PSLC?''
  
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: Big question... it's probably most beneficial to familiarize yourself with the overview on the wiki, then read your thrust's most recent thrust plan and subgoals. A good overview is easy to obtain by attending all the sessions during visits by the Advisory Board and/or  NSF program officers.
  
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05832 / 05432 Cognitive Modeling & Intelligent Tutoring Systems
 
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3:00pm-4:20pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Fall 2010
 
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Room 3002, Newell-Simon Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
 
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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.
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''I'm a new Postdoc. What should I do and who should I talk to?''
  
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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.
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: * Sign up for mailing lists
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: * Meet other people in your thrust
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: * There are also monthly PSLC lunches
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: * Read up on the projects your thrust is involved in
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: * Check out the other thrusts

Latest revision as of 13:42, 25 July 2011

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?

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; Nokes - 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 ? ? ? ?
Gregory Dyke CMU/LTI Carolyn Rosé 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 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 Bruce McLaren AdaptErrEx Project sisotani@gmail.com
  • Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
  • Intelligent Tutoring System
  • Ontologies
  • Math Education
Laura Halderman Pitt/? ? ? ? ?
Ido Roll UBC/? ? ? ? ?
Oscar Saz CMU/LTI Maxine Eskenazi Cognitive Factors (Fulbright funding) oskarsaz@unizar.es My interest is language learning, especially pronunciation and phonology. For my PhD in Spain, we developed a set of multimodal tools for language training and rehabilitation of impaired children (http://www.vocaliza.es). Here in CMU, I will work in developing tutors that prevent second language learners from making pronunciation errors which can generate a confusion in the understanding of the message by a human listener, as we have the hypothesis that not all pronunciation errors affect in the same way the communication among humans.
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 University of Wisconsin-Madison Mitchell Nathan, Jim Greeno Motivation & Metacognition - The Impact of Context Personalization on Problem Solving in Algebra cwalkington@wisc.edu personalization, motivation, story problems
Michael Yudelson CMU/HCII Phil Pavlik ? ? User modeling, Educational Data Mining

Meeting Notes and Schedule

UPCOMING MEETINGS

Summer meetings continue and include presentations of post-docs' current projects and research agendas to their peers.

Dates and topics for Fall meetings are forthcoming (by mid August)

PAST MEETINGS

Apr 2011

Joint meeting with PSLC junior faculty "Setting up a lab." Carolyn Rose

Mar 2011

  • A joint meeting was held with PSLC junior faculty. Topic was "Designing Research Programs"
  • the event was well attended by both postdocs and junior faculty
  • conversation was vibrant, with conversation focusing on aligning one's research program to a compelling problem for both researchers and the organizations that fund research (IES, NSF)

Feb 2011

  • informal debrief of AB visit
  • set agenda for Spring AB visits, collaboration with Jr Faculty members
  getting a lab up and running
    How to vet students (grad, work studies)
    Organizational strategies (personnel)
    Management strategies
    Lab meetings
    Wiki
    People vs pipeline
  research programs 
    designing it
    refining it (or refocusing it)
    maintaining it when moving to a new space
  • Matt Bernacki informally discussed research program & Model of Contextualized Learning

Jan 2011

  • SWOT delivered 1/21/11 to advisory board in morning breakout session.
  • PSLC lunches will be organized by Sherice Clarke from Feb-August 2011; spring schedule will be announced later this month

Dec 2010

  • meeting cancelled
  • representative met with grad students; completed SWOT

Nov 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 -- guest speaker, job, and special announcements from David Klahr and other PIER members
pslc-post-docs -- the post doc list
pslc-members and pslc-announce -- both of these are for general PSLC announcements, one internal and one external
The list for your thrust.
Contact Jo Bodnar (jbodnar@cs.cmu.edu) to be added to these.
* if you are a CMU-affiliated PSLC post-doc, you should also email Liz Rangel (lrangel@pitt.edu) for LRDC's weekly mailing which includes announcements for events hosted at LRDC as well as position and general announcements.


What do the PSLC Postdocs do as an entity?

Have regular meetings (about once a month) to discuss issues relevant to our experience as Postdocs. These should also encourage smaller meetings to promote cross-thrust collaboration when our research goals overlap.

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

Big question... it's probably most beneficial to familiarize yourself with the overview on the wiki, then read your thrust's most recent thrust plan and subgoals. A good overview is easy to obtain by attending all the sessions during visits by the Advisory Board and/or NSF program officers.


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
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