CF March 2012
March 15, 2012 Cognitive Factors Meeting
Announcements: - Introduction of Dr. Connie Ho, visiting from Hong Kong - The Advisory Board meeting is next week: Tuesday & Wednesday, March 20-21
Overview of Cognitive Factors Projects: - Susan Dunlap (spelling interventions in English as a second language) - Ben Friedline (morphology training in English as a second language) - Yibin Li (REAP, assistance dilemma) - Wendy Chang (effect of viewing animated characters on learning to read Chinese) and Juan Zhang (effects of writing, reading, or viewing animated characters on Chinese character recognition and production) - Jon-Michel Seman, Jan Wang, Nel de Jong (fluency in English as a second language) - Bruce McLaren (teaching stoichiometry via worked examples, intelligently tutored problems, erroneous examples, and problems to solve) - Nora Presson and Brian MacWhinney (conjugation of regular and irregular verbs in Spanish as a foreign language) - Stephanie Siler (evidence of engineering goals vs. science goals in students learning control-of-variables strategy) - Elizabeth Hirshorn (an investigation of alternate strategies used by resilient readers of English, with low phonological skill and higher than expected reading comprehension)