Timothy Nokes-Malach

Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology

Research Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center

Lab

https://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/nokes/CSL-lab-home.html

Education and Training

PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Interests

My research examines human learning, problem solving, and motivationwith an aim to understand, predict, and promote knowledge transfer. Specific topics include: 1) identifying the cognitive and metacognitive processes underlying transfer success and failure, 2) exploring the relations between instruction, motivation, cognition, and transfer, 3) examining social and ecological processes that support or inhibit transfer, and 4) investigating the effects of mindfulness meditation on cognition, learning, and transfer. An overarching goal is to develop instructional theories to promote learning and transfer in mathematics and science.

Recent Publications

Steele, C., Lobczowski, N., Davison, T., Yu, M., Diamond, M., Kovashka, A., Litman, D., Nokes-Malach, T., & Walker, E. (2022). It takes two: Examining the effects of collaborative teaching of a robot learner. In: Rodrigo, M.M., Matsuda, N., Cristea, A.I., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners’ and Doctoral Consortium. AIED 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13356. Springer, Cham.

Kalender, Y., P Marshman, E., Schunn, C., Nokes-Malach, T. J., & Singh, C. (2022). Framework for unpacking students’ mindsets in physics by gender. Physical Review Physics Education Research , 18, 010116.

Jaramillo, S., Kuo, E., Rottman, B. M., & Nokes-Malach, T. J. (2021). Investigating causal inference difficulties with a simple, qualitative force-and-motion problem. In M. B. Bennett, B. W. Frank, & R. E. Vieyra (Eds.) Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings (pp. 197-202). American Association of Physics Teachers. https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2021.pr.

Asano, Y., Litman, D., Mingzhi Yu, Lobczowski, N., Nokes-Malach, T., Kovashka, A., & Walker, E. (2022). Comparison of Lexical Alignment with a Teachable Robot in Human-Robot and Human-Human-Robot Interactions. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Edinburgh, UK. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Pelakh, A., Good, M. L, Kuo, E., Nokes-Malach, T., Tumminia, M. J, Jamal-Orozco, N., Diamond, M.S., Adelman, A., & Galla, B. (2021). The Relationship Between Intelligence Mindset and Test Anxiety as Mediated by Effort Regulation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43.

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