Educational Psychology professor presented at an international conference in Italy

Educational Psychology’s Panayiota (Pani) Kendeou presented at the 9th International Conference on Conceptual Change that was organized by the Special Interest Group “Conceptual Change” of the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI) in Bologna, Italy. The aim of this international meeting that takes place biannually is to bring together researchers from the fields of education, cognitive and developmental psychology and several others with the purpose of investigating the problem of conceptual change in development, learning, and instruction. Kendeou presented her recently published Knowledge Revision Components framework (KReC; Kendeou & O’Brien, 2014), which explains how knowledge revision is accomplished over the course of reading. Her travel was partially funded by an International Travel Grant from the University’s Global Programs and Strategy Alliance.