The Metacognition and Motivation thrust has two broad goals,

1. to develop a better understanding of how students' metacognitive processes, affect, and motivational states influence robust learning; and

2. to test whether robust learning can be enhanced in learning environments that

a. support or tutor the acquisition of specific metacognitive skills associated with improved self-regulated learning,
b. induce motivational states hypothesized to facilitate learning and performance, and
c. induce affective states known to relate positively to learning, or avoid affective states that are known to relate negatively to learning.

PSLC
M&M (page)

Members

Co-Leaders

Vincent Aleven (CMU)
Timothy Nokes-Malach (Pitt / LRDC)

Faculty

Christa Asterhan (Hebrew University)
Ryan Baker (WPI)
Ken Koedinger (CMU)
John Levine (Pitt)
Bruce McLaren (CMU)
Phillip Pavlik (University of Memphis)
Nikol Rummel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
David Yaron (CMU)

Systems Scientist

Phil Pavlik

Postdoctoral Fellows

Matthew Bernacki (Pitt)
Ido Roll (University of British Columbia)
Candace Walkington (University of Wisconsin)

Graduate Students

Daniel Belenky (Pitt)
Soniya Gadgil (Pitt)
Yanjin Long (Pitt)
Elizabeth Richey (Pitt)

Associates

Joseph Williams (University of California Berkeley)