Profile  

Roger Azevedo earned a B.A. in Psychology (Concordia University), a M.A. in Educational Technology (Concordia University), and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (McGill University). After leaving McGill, he joined the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University to complete his postdoctoral training.

Broadly, Dr. Azevedo's research interests concern the development of models of learning, knowledge, and performance, and determining how to use these models to improve training and instruction. The focus of his research is on the (1) nature and development of transferable cognitive skills, and effective cognitive functioning in complex real-world situations of learning and performance; and, (2) on the application of cognitive models to improve learning, performance, and assessment, particularly through the design and use of computer-based learning environments to reflect cognitive principles. His work to date has primarily been conducted in the area of medical diagnosis, but the central issues he has dealt with relate to a wide variety of other domains. Dr. Azevedo's recent research interests include examining the effects of learner-generated goals vs. teacher- or experimenter-set goals on students' self-regulatory behavior during learning complex domains (e.g., circulatory and environmental systems)
from hypermedia and web-based simulation environments.

Selected Recent Publictions    

            Lajoie, S.P., & Azevedo, R. (2000). Cognitive tools for medical informatics. In S.P. Lajoie (Ed.), Computers as cognitive tools II: No more walls: Theory change, paradigm shifts and their influence on the computers for instructional purposes (pp. 247-271). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

            Azevedo, R., & Faremo, S.L. (1999). Novice-expert differences in radiology: Extending the RadTutor to foster medical students' diagnosticskills. In S.P. Lajoie, & M. Vivet (Eds.), Frontiers intelligence and applications. Open learning environments: New computational technologies to support learning, exploration and collaboration (pp. 501-508). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

            Azevedo, R., & Lajoie, S.P. (1998). The cognitive basis for the design of a mammography interpretation tutor. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 9(1/2), 32-44.

            Lajoie, S.P., Azevedo, R., & Fleiszer, D.M. (1998). Cognitive tools for assessment and learning in a high flow information environment. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 18(3), 203-233.  

Recent Grants

Title:                              A Curriculum in Networked Control Systems
Investigators:                G. Walsh, R. Azevedo, W. Levine, and Hristu-Varsakelis
Funding Organization: National Science Foundation
Dates:                           2001 - 2004 Total Amount: $399,533.00

Title:                              Using Computers as Cognitive Tools for Enhancing Student Learning
Investigators:                R. Azevedo and Stan Bennett
Funding Organization: PT3 CATALYST grant from the US Dept. of Education
Dates:                           2000 - 2001 Total Amount: $65,301.00