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Reading + Language Lab to present five times at AERA

January 24, 2018

Five proposals from students and researchers in the Reading + Language Lab have been accepted as presentations at American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, April 13-17 in New York City.

The presentations—focused on knowledge revision and reading comprehension—are listed below:

  • *Trevors, G., Bohn-Gettler, C., *Mohsen, B., & Kendeou, P. (April, 2018). The effects of inducing emotions on knowledge revision processes. Paper to be presented at a Symposium on Reducing the Impact of Misconceptions to the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, USA.
  • *Trevors, G. & Kendeou, P. (April, 2018). Revision failure: Integrating cognitive and motivational theories. Poster to be presented to the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, USA.
  • *Mohsen, B., & Kendeou, P. (April, 2018). Argument Evaluation, Reading Strategies, and Opinion Change in the Digital Environment. Paper to be presented at a Symposium on Digital Reading at the American Educational Research Association’s Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
  • *Butterfuss, R., *Bresina, B., *Wagner, K., Kendeou, P., & McMaster, K. (April, 2018). The relation between executive function and inference making. Poster to be presented at the American Educational Research Association’s Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
  • *Butterfuss, R., *Kim, J., *Salovich, N., *Trevors, G., & Kendeou, P. (April, 2018). The effects of emotional content on knowledge revision: An eye-tracking study. Poster to be presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

*denotes current or past student

About the Reading + Language Lab

Panayiota (Pani) Kendeou

The Reading + Language Lab is led by Panayiota (Pani) Kendeou, Guy Bond Chair in Reading and associate professor in the Department of Educational psychology. The lab examines the relationship between language and memory, with an emphasis on understanding and improving learning during reading. The lab also develops and applies technology-based interventions and assessments.