| Announcements
Congratulations to our students on these presentations
at Psychonomics 2010:
Bovee,
Raney, & Daniel
Levels of Comprehension during Letter
Detection: The Roles of Reading
Ability and Text Comprehensibility.
Cushen,
Jarosz, Aiello & Wiley
Shifting Focus: The benefits of flexible control and diffuse attention.
D. Cosejo
& S. Ohlsson
The Effect Of Processing Type On Re-Categorization And Open-Ended
Responses
Dietz &
Goldman
Constructing Representations: The Effects of Diagrams on Algebraic
Solution Accuracy .
Hinze, Wiley
& Pellegrino
Differentiating Retrieval Processes which Underlie the Transfer of
Testing Effects.
Jaeger, Wiley
& Griffin
Metacomprehension Accuracy From Illustrated Text.
Jarosz &
Wiley
That's So Raven's: The Role Of Distraction On The RAPM.
Jobe &
Storm
The Forgetting of Negative Autobiographical Memories through
Retrieval-induced Forgetting.
Koppel,
Storm, & Reilly
The Blocking and Unblocking of Memory.
Ricks &
Wiley
The Impact of Knowledge and Mnemonic Chunking Strategies in Eliminating
the Fan Effect.
Schilling
& Storm
The Earlier They Come, The Harder They
Fall: Testing the
Competition-dependence Assumption of Retrieval-induced Forgetting.
Congratulations to Andy
Jarosz who defended his masters
project on "Why Does Working Memory Capacity Predict General Fluid
Intelligence? A Possible Role of Distraction".
Congratulations to Travis Ricks on successfully
defending his dissertation on Using Baseball to Teach
Statistics. Travis is now an Assistant Professor at BYU
Idaho.
Congratulations to Scott Hinze on successfully
defending his dissertation on Testing Effects. Scott
is now Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University.
Congratulations to Andy
Jarosz who received a Psi Chi Graduate Research Grant to fund
his project on Alcohol, Attentional Control and Problem Solving!
Congratulations to Susan
Goldman, Thomas Griffin, Jennifer Wiley and James Pellegrino who
recieved a grant for $19.2 million from the Institute for Education
Sciences to fund a major new efforts to improve Reading for
Understanding in K-12 education.
Congratulations to Susan
Goldman and James Pellegrino who recieved a $10 million math
literacy project funded by the U.S. Department of
Education's Institute of Education Sciences. As part of the National Center for
Cognition and Mathematics Instruction, a team of UIC experts
will collaborate on the redesign and testing of a widely used middle
school mathematics curriculum called the Connected Mathematics Project.
Congratulations to Susan
Goldman who has been elected the chair of the International Society
of the Learning Sciences from 2010-2013.
Congratulations to Chris
Schilling who received an NSF
award to travel to Kyoto University during Summer 2010 for a
collaborative research project with Ben Storm and Jun
Kawaguchi.
Congratulations to Tara
Jobe who presented with Ben Storm at the Nebraska Symposium on Memory and Motivation
on "Retrieval-induced forgetting and the remembering of
negative autobiographical memories."
Congratulations to Rebecca
Koppel, Andy Jarosz and Patrick Cushen who presented at
the Chicago Graduate Research
Symposium this Spring at the University of Chicago!
The UIC Cognitive Program was well represented at
MPA 2010 :
Stranger in a Strange Land:
Non-native Status and Insightful Problem Solving
Patrick Cushen & Jennifer Wiley
Working Memory and the Raven's: Novel
Rules Drive the Difference
Andrew Jarosz & Jennifer Wiley
Remembering the Past causes
Forgetting, Simulating the Future Does Not
Tara Jobe & Benjamin Storm
The Effect of Epistemic
Dispositions on Comprehension of Belief-Relevant Information
Carlos Salas & Thomas Griffin
Congratulations to undergraduate Dan Aiello who
has been awarded a Kabbes Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence, a Nancy Hirschberg Research Grant and a
LASURI prize to
support his research.
Dan is working with Jennifer Wiley and Andy Jarosz on a project
investigating
the
relationship between alcohol use, altered attentional states, and
creativity.
Welcome to our new class of incoming students! We
have 3 new students for 2010-11: Patrick
Butts, Spencer Campbell and Michael Wiedmann (on
Visiting Fellowship from Freiburg Universitat).
Congratulations to Travis
Ricks who was awarded
the 2010
Piorkowski Award for his collegiality and scholarship.
The
Piorkowski Award is given annually to a student in Behavioral
Neuroscience
or Cognition who displays creativity, strength of character, and a love
of people. Travis also received the 2010 Eron Teaching Award for his
excellence as an instructor.
Faculty Notes
Congratulations to Jim Pellegrino who has been
elected to the National Academy of Education. The academy
consists of a maximum
of 200 U.S. members and up to 25 foreign associates who are elected on
the basis of outstanding scholarship or contributions to
education.
Congratulations to Susan
Goldman who has been elected the chair of the International Society
of the Learning Sciences from 2010-2013.
Congratulations to Jennifer Wiley who was
awarded an Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship which are granted to highly
qualified
foreign scientists and scholars for a long-term research stay in
Germany.
Congratulations to Susan Goldman and Jim Pellegrino
who have
been recognized as LAS Distinguished Professors by the
University.
Congratulations to Stellan Ohlsson was awarded
with a 2006-7
Silver Circle Teaching Award and the Graduate Mentoring Prize in
2007-8.
Congratulations to Gary
Raney who was recognized with a 2010
Flame Award for Teaching Excellence.
Currently Funded Grants:
Goldman, Griffin, Pellegrino, Wiley (with NIU, NU,
WestEd) IES, Reading for Understanding Across Grades 6 through
12: Evidence-based Argumentation for Disciplinary Learning.
Pellegrino & Goldman, IES, National Center for
Cognition and Mathematics
Instruction
Griffin & Wiley (with Thiede, Boise State), IES,
Improving Metacomprehension
and Self-Regulated Learning From Scientific Texts
Pellegrino & Goldman, NSF, Evaluation of the
Cognitive, Psychometric,
and Instructional Affordances of Curriculum-Embedded Assessments: A
Comprehensive
Validity-Based Approach
Pellegrino, NSF, From Research to Practice: Redesigning
AP Science Courses
to Advance Science Literacy and Support Learning with Understanding
Pellegrino, IES, The Cognitive, Psychometric, and
Instructional Validity
of Curriculum-Embedded Assessments: In-Depth Analyses of the Resources
Available to Teachers Within "Everyday Mathematics"
Wiley (with Moher, Computer Science), NSF, Supporting
whole-class science
investigations with spatial simulations
Conference Locations, Dates and Deadlines:
AERA, New Orleans, April 8-12, 2011
DEADLINE passed.
APS, Wash DC, May
25-29, 2011
DEADLINE Rolling until Jan 31, 2011
Cognitive
Science, Boston MA, July 20-23, 2011
DEADLINE Feb 1, 2011
CSCL/ICLS,
Hong Kong 2011/Syndney 2012
DEADLINE Nov 1
MPA,
Chicago, May 5-7, 2011
DEADLINE Nov 3, 2010
Psychonomics, St.
Louis, MO November 18-21, 2010
DEADLINE June 1, 2010
Society
for Text & Discourse, Poitiers France, Jul 11-13, 2011
DEADLINE Feb, 2011
Current Graduate Requirements and Policies:
Current Course Requirements, 2005
and after
Current Prelim Process Policy Statement 12/1/03
Current PhD Process Policy Statement 12/1/03
last updated sep 18, 2010 jw
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