Alexander Research Lab

   

 

 

PEOPLE

Patricia A. Alexander | palexand@umd.edu | VITA

Jean Mullan Professor of Literacy, Click here

Interests: Academic Development, Learning and Teaching, Text Processing, Individual Differences, Epistemology

Soo Eun Chae | schae@umd.edu | VITA

Interests: Development of writing in English as a Second Language

Claudine Costich | ccostich@umd.edu | VITA

Interests: Geography education, motivation, individual differences, model of domain learning, cultural geography, social context of education, comparative education

Daniel L. Dinsmore | dinsmore@umd.edu | VITA

Interests: Expertise Development, Strategic Processing

 

Lily Fountain | fountain@son.umaryland.edu | VITA

Interests: Interest, sociocultural aspects of motivation, expertise, health professional education

Emily Fox | efox@umd.edu | VITA

Interests: Expert reading

Emily Grossnickle | egross3@umd.edu | VITA

Interests:

Jan Jablonski | janjablonski@msn.com | VITA

Interests: Individual interests in early childhood, language development, motivation and approaches to learning in young children, school readiness

Sandra Loughlin | sandra.louglin@gmail.com | VITA

Interests: Reading processes, cognitive processes, transfer

Joshua Magda | jmagda@umd.edu | VITA

Interests: Conceptions of education, pedagogical beliefs, cultural context of academic development, self-directed learning, critical pedagogy, qualitative methodology

Liliana Maggioni | lilianaumd@hotmail.com | VITA

Interests: Epistemic cognition and epistemic beliefs, relation between knowledge and beliefs, domain knowledge, historical thinking, teacher's beliefs and pedagogical practices, development of expertise and fragile understanding

Meghan M. Parkinson | mparkin2@umd.edu | VITA

Interests: Word learning during reading, reading motivation, instructional practices for word learning

Fielding Winters | fwinters@umd.edu | VITA

Interests: Self-regulated learning, collaborative learning, educational assessment, science education, computer-based learning environments

 

Visiting Scholars

Remy Rikers | rikers@fsw.eur.nl

Visiting Scholar, Fall 2007
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Interests: Medical expertise, problem-based learning

Sofie Loyens | Loyens@fsw.eur.nl

Visiting Scholar, Fall 2007
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Interests: Conceptions of learning, constructivism, problem-based learning, conceptual change, motivation, approaches to learning and study strategies

Ron Hoz |

Visiting Scholar, 2007

 

 
 

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