Dear Colleagues,
It is a pleasure to announce the next IIS Colloquium, Friday April 10th at 4pm in FIT 405. Jarrod Moss from Mississippi State University will be giving a talk entitled "Neural correlates of effective learning strategies" An abstract is below. Please contact me if you would like to meet with Jarrod before the talk. This one hour talk will be held in 405 FIT. We hope to foster discussion/debate that will continue after the talk or at dinner as appropriate! Looking forward, Andrew -- Andrew Olney, Ph.D. Associate Director Institute for Intelligent Systems The University of Memphis 365 Innovation Drive Memphis, TN 38152 -------------------------- Neural correlates of effective learning strategies Research on learning has identified a number of learning strategies that students could use to aid their reading comprehension and subsequent problem solving. However, these strategies are often not used by students. The work I will present is part of an effort to implement a biologically informed tutoring system that will improve learning by using biological data to automatically track student use of these strategies. As part of this process, we conducted a set of behavioral studies to identify a set of strategies that varied in effectiveness: rereading, paraphrasing, and self-explanation. We also examined potential individual differences in the use of these strategies after being trained to perform them. I will also present some of our initial fMRI results that examine the neural correlates of these learning strategies. |
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IIS Colloquium, Friday April 10th at 4pm in FIT 405posted Apr 3, 2009 7:42 AM by Andrew Olney |