Aug 12, 2019 | Collaborators, Conferences, Education, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Intuitive Biology, John Coley, Michal Fux, Nicole Betz, Presentations, Science Education
Members of the CORE Lab recently presented at the International Conference on Learning held in Belfast, Northern Ireland. As a group, Dr. John Coley, Dr. Michal Fux, Dr. Nicole Betz, and Emily Dahlgaard Thor from the CORE Lab, along with Lauren Swiney of Warwick...
Jun 20, 2019 | Collaborators, Conferences, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Michal Fux, Nicole Betz, Science Education, Yian Xu
June 6-9 , members of the CORE Lab presented at SARMAC XIII (the meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition) that took place in Cape Cod. Their symposium, “Exploring the Role of Intuitive Beliefs in the Way People Learn About and Understand...
Mar 15, 2019 | Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Presentations, Psychology Department, Science Education
Today, Emily presented her Master’s thesis to the psychology department, during the annual Master’s Convention. Her talk was on the role intuitive language plays in the comprehension of science readings. She hopes to use this research to inform science writers on how...
Feb 12, 2019 | Education, Presentations, Science Education
Last week, the CORE Lab was visited by the wonderful Lillian Asiala! Lillian recently received her doctorate in cognitive and instructional psychology from Northern Illinois University. The central themes of her research are discourse processes, text comprehension,...
Feb 4, 2019 | Collaborators, Education, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Presentations, Science Education
At the end of last semester, we had the honour of being visited by Dr. Berri Jacque at one of our CORE Lab weekly meetings. Dr. Jacque is an Associate Professor at Tufts Medical School and the Director of the Center for Translational Science Education at Tufts...
Aug 13, 2018 | Collaborators, Ecology, Intuitive Biology, Science Education
Throughout this summer, the CORE Lab had the privilege of working in collaboration with the Russell J. Call Children’s Center at Northeastern University to interview children for a new project dealing with intuitive ecological learning! Read more about the...