... Committee and Staff Biographies...

... for the University of Wisconsin System. Her academic career includes appointments at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Western Michigan University. On leave from the University ... –Madison, she held administrative positions at the National Science Foundation, including the first assistant director for social, behavioral and economic sciences, assistant director for education and human resources, acting deputy director for the foundation in 2009, permanent deputy director ... 2011, and two periods as acting director. Other national service includes appointment by President Carter to the Presidential Commission on the Accident at ... Mile Island. She received an Excellence in Teaching Award and Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Sigma Xi, as well as a ... fellow (inaugural class) and national associate of the National Academy of Sciences. She holds a B.A. from Virginia Union University, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in sociology....

... Patricia J. Bauer is the Asa Griggs Candler professor of psychology at Emory University. Her research focuses on the development of memory, particularly the determinants of remembering and ... , links between cognitive and neural developments and age-related changes in memory, and the...

... elaboration of the semantic knowledge base through learning and productive processes. Previously, she was a professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and was on the faculty of ...

... Cynthia Beall (NAS) is distinguished university professor and the Sarah Idell Pyle professor of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University. She is a physical anthropologist whose research focuses on human ... to high-altitude hypoxia, particularly the different patterns of adaptation exhibited by Andean, Tibetan, and East African highlanders. Her current research deals with the genetics and physiology of adaptive traits and evidence for natural selection. She is a member of the ... Academy of Sciences (NAS), the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; she also was a Guggenheim fellow and is a current member of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In addition to active participation in the nomination ... for NAS members and NAS governance, she has chaired and been a member of the Board on International Scientific Organizations, was a delegate to the 28th ICSU General Assembly, and was chair, vice-chair, ... a member of the U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Biological Sciences, was a member of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education Advisory Board and is a current member of the Advisory Board for the NAS Koshland public engagement program. She earned ... M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from Pennsylvania State University....

... Margaret E. Beier is an associate professor of psychology at Rice University. Her research interests focus on learning and intellectual development throughout the life span; she investigates the individual determinants of learning, particularly as related to age and to ... (intellectual abilities and working memory capacity) and noncognitive (personality, interests, motivation, and self-regulation) predictors of knowledge and skill acquisition. Her work examines the effectiveness of various educational interventions and the ... of individual factors and these interventions on learning and noncognitive outcomes such as self-efficacy, self-concept, and interests. She has published book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed psychology journals. Her awards for teaching and research include the Rice ... for Teaching Excellence Fellowship and the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching from Rice University. She is a member of the American Educational Research Association, a fellow of ... Association for Psychological Science, and a Division 14 fellow of the American Psychological Association (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists). She is on the editorial board of Human Performance,...

... the Journal of Business and Psychology and Work, Aging, and Retirement. Her M.S. and Ph.D. in psychology are from the Georgia Institute of Technology....

... Sujeeta Bhatt (Study Director) is a senior program officer with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and currently directs two studies: How People Learn II: Science and Practice of Learning, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences for National Security: A ... (HIG). Prior to that, she was an assistant professor in radiology at the Georgetown University Medical Center, on detail to DIA/HIG. Her work at DIA and HIG focused on the management of research on the psychological and neuroscience bases for credibility assessment, biometrics, insider threat, and ... interviewing and interrogation methods and on developing research-to-practice modules to promote the use of evidence-based practice in interviews/interrogations. She received an Intelligence ... Postdoctoral Fellowship Award and an American Psychological Association Science Fellowship. For her work in deception detection and interrogation, she has been invited to speak to audiences ranging from universities to U.S. government entities and has trained law enforcement ... across local, state and federal levels. She holds a Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience from American University....

... David B. Daniel is a professor of psychology at James Madison University. His work forges reciprocal links between cognitive-developmental psychology and teaching practices/pedagogy. An Association for Physiological Science fellow, he has received the Transforming Education through Neuroscience Award ... 1 percent of educational researchers influencing public debate in the United States. He was the founding managing editor of the journal Mind, Brain and Education and has received many teaching awards throughout his career. His scholarship and related activities focus on translating findings from the ... of Learning, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and other relevant literatures to useable knowledge, particularly for educational practice, policy, and student learning. He received an M.A. and a Ph.D. ...

... Robert L. Goldstone is distinguished professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University, where he has been a faculty member since 1991. He directed the Cognitive Science Program during 2006& ... #8211;2011. His research interests include concept learning and representation, perceptual learning, educational applications of cognitive science, decision making, collective behavior, and computational modeling ... human cognition. His interests in education focus on learning and transfer in mathematics and science, computational models of learning,...

... and the design of innovative learning technologies. He was awarded two APA Young Investigator Awards, the 1996 Chase Memorial Award for Outstanding Young Researcher in Cognitive Science, a 1997 James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award, an APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career ... to Psychology, and a 2004 Troland research award from the National Academy of Sciences. He has been executive editor of Cognitive Science, associate editor of Psychonomic Bulletin & ... ; Review, and associate editor of Cognitive Psychology and Topics in Cognitive Science. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Cognitive Science Society. He received a B.A. ... Oberlin College in cognitive science, an M.A. in psychology from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan....

... Arthur C. Graesser is a distinguished university professor of interdisciplinary research in the Department of Psychology and the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis and an honorary research fellow in the Department of Education at Oxford University. ... His primary research interests are in cognitive science, discourse processing, computational linguistics, and the learning sciences. He has developed automated tutoring systems with conversational agents and automated text analysis systems. He was editor of ... journal Discourse Processes and Journal of Educational Psychology and president of the Society for Empirical Studies of Literature, Art, and Media; the Society for Text and Discourse; the International Society for Artificial Intelligence in Education; and the Federation of Associations in ... Behavioral and Brain Sciences Foundation. He has chaired or been a member of expert panels for the Programme for International Student Assessment and the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, and he consults for the Educational Testing Service. He received lifetime ... achievement awards from the American Psychological Association, the Society for Text and Discourse, the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation, as well as the first University of Memphis Presidential Award for Lifetime Achievement in Research....

... Mary Helen Immordino-Yang is professor of education, psychology and neuroscience at the University of Southern California, at the Rossier School of Education and the Brain and Creativity Institute. She studies the psychological and neurobiological bases of social emotion, self-awareness and ... teacher professional development. Her interdisciplinary approach combines human development psychology with social neuroscience and field studies in schools. She is associate editor for Mind, Brain, and Education, and the American Educational Research Association’s AERA Open, serves on the ...

... and Brain, and is currently serving as president of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society. She serves on advisory boards for multiple schools, school districts, and scientific research institutes and commissions in the United States and internationally, including as a distinguished ...

... Ruth Kanfer is professor of psychology at the School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research, which focuses on the influence of motivation, personality, and emotion in workplace ...

... is the James V. Bradley professor of psychological sciences at Purdue University. His research sits at the interface between cognitive science and education, with a specific emphasis on the importance of retrieval processes for learning. A primary goal of his research is to identify effective ... strategies that promote long-term learning, comprehension, and knowledge application. His research program examines learning strategies in children, metacognition and self-regulated learning, and educational ...

... the Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Psychonomic Society in 2013, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2012, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2012. He earned his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis....

... whose research focuses on ways technology can support students’ learning of advanced skills and the revitalization of classrooms and schools. Her 2014 book, Learning Online: What Research Tells Us About Whether, When, and How, describes the state of the art in online learning from ...

... Douglas L. Medin (NAS) is the Louis W. Menk professor of psychology and holds a joint appointment in Psychology and Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Dr. Medin taught at Rockefeller University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Michigan. ... his earlier research on concepts and categorization, recent research has extended to cross-cultural studies of biological categorization and reasoning, cultural and cognitive dimensions of moral reasoning and decision making, and culturally based and community-based science education. The ... work involves a partnership of the American Indian Center of Chicago, the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin, and Northwestern University. He has conducted research on cognition and learning among both indigenous and majority culture populations in Guatemala, ... , Mexico, and the United States. He received an American Psychological Association (APA) Presidential Citation, the APA distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, ... and the Association for Physiological Science William James Lifetime Achievement Award and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Education. He received a ... McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Fellowship Award and has served as editor for The Psychology of Learning and Motivation and Cognitive Psychology. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of South Dakota....

... Linda Nathan is the executive director of the Center for Artistry and Scholarship, which fosters and mobilizes creative, arts-immersed schools, where students are making and doing, teachers are asking how and why, and schools are engaged in their community. In this role, she oversees key ... Leadership in partnership with the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She also works closely with the leadership of Conservatory Lab Charter School to support its development as a national model of project-based learning and arts-immersed education. Dr. Nathan was the founding Headmaster of ... Arts Academy, Boston’s first public high school for the visual and performing arts. As an experienced leader in education, Dr. Nathan actively mentors teachers and principals, and consults ... internationally on issues of educational reform, leadership and teaching with a commitment to equity, and the critical role of arts and creativity in schools. Dr. Nathan also facilitates workshops and conversations about issues of race, equity, and culturally relevant pedagogy for school leaders, teachers, ... the Test (2009, Beacon Press) and When Grit Isn’t Enough (2017, Beacon Press). Dr. Nathan is also an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she has taught for 17 years. She earned master’s degrees in education administration from Antioch University and in ...

... Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar is the Jean and Charles Walgreen Jr. chair of reading and literacy, Arthur F. Thurnau professor, and a teacher educator at the University of Michigan. Her primary research interest is in supporting students’ sense-making and knowledge building ... in the context of project-based learning. A particular interest is children who struggle with challenging academic work. With her research group and in collaboration with computer scientist Elliot Soloway, she designed and studied the use of a cyber-learning environment in which students ... as they read texts, view video, use simulations, write, and draw, while engaging in scientific inquiry. She participated in studies investigating the value of educative supports for science teaching in the ... elementary grades and in design-based research to investigate the process and outcomes of teaching English learners the use of functional grammar analysis as an aid to interpreting and learning from narrative and informational ... . She has served on expert panels and committees to prepare evidence-based reports on teacher preparation and learning, including the OERI/RAND Reading Study Group and the International Reading Association’s Literacy Research Panel. She served on the National Advisory Board to Children&# ... ;s Television Workshop, was co-editor of Cognition and Instruction, and is a member of the National Academy of Education. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign....

... and director of the AAA Laboratory at Stanford University, where he has taught since 2000. He is also the I. James Quillen dean of the graduate school of education, Stanford University. Previously, he was an associate and assistant professor at Vanderbilt University. He studies student understanding ... science, and education—examines learning and instruction in laboratory, classroom, and informal settings. Informed by his 8 years as a middle school teacher in Los Angeles and Alaska, a theme throughout his research is how people’s facility for spatial thinking can inform and influence ... , and the relation between perceptual-motor systems, physical environments, and higher-order cognition. His recognitions include Stanford Graduate School Advisor of the Year, Teacher of the Year, AERA Article of the Year, Research Article of the Year (Association for Educational Computing and ... ), and Outstanding Young Teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District (Alumni of the School of Education, University of Southern California). His Ph.D. in human cognition and learning is from Columbia University....

... research associate at the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education and the director of research for the Rice University School Mathematics Project, an outreach program in K–12 mathematics education. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology (developmental) and anthropology, and a ...

... Zewelanji N. Serpell is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the psychology department at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her...

... research focuses on developing and evaluating school-based programs for underperforming students. Her work harnesses advances in cognitive science to develop and test interventions that target students&# ... associated with playing chess enhance executive functions and whether improvements transfer to academic outcomes for African American elementary school students. She also studies ways to optimize learning experiences using computer-based programs with African American students from middle school to ... ’s Quality Education from Minorities Network and of the National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education (University of Virginia, Curry School of Education). Previously she held academic positions at Virginia State University and James Madison University (JMU). At JMU, she was associate ... Learning Disabilities Center and the Alvin and Nancy Baird professor in psychology. In addition to her published research, she coedited two books on school mental health. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Howard University....

... Barbara A. Wanchisen directs the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Previously, she was the executive director of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, & Cognitive Sciences, a nonprofit advocacy ... . Before that, she was a professor in the Department of Psychology and director of the college-wide honors program at Baldwin-Wallace University. She is a member of the Psychonomic Society, the Association for Behavior ... International, and the American Psychological Association, where she is a fellow of Division 25 (Behavior Analysis). She was on the editorial boards of the Journal of ... Experimental Analysis of Behavior and The Behavior Analyst and a guest reviewer for a number of other journals. She received her B.A. in English and philosophy from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in English from Villanova University, and her doctorate in experimental psychology ...

... Tina Winters is an associate program officer with the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (BBCSS). During her time at BBCSS, she has worked on a wide variety of projects under BBCSS’s portfolio, including overseeing ... related to Alzheimer’s disease, behavior and sun exposure, and healthy aging. She has worked on many National Academies reports, including Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science, Measuring Human Capabilities: ... An Agenda for Basic Research on the Assessment of Individual and Group Performance Potential for Military Accession,...

... The Context of Military Environments: An Agenda for Basic Research on Social and Organizational Factors Relevant to Small Units, Review of Disability and Rehabilitation Research: NIDRR Grantmaking Processes and Products, Using ... , Strengthening Peer Review in Federal Agencies That Support Education Research, Advancing Scientific Research in Education (which she co-edited), and Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment....

... Renée L. Wilson-Gaines is a senior program assistant with the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences. She joined the National Academies staff in 2009 and currently supports the following projects: How People Learn II, Substance Abuse ... Mental Health Services Administration, and Measuring Human Capabilities. Previously, she supported studies on the Context of Military Environments, Mine Safety: Essential Components of Self- ... , Sociocultural Data to Accomplish Department of Defense Missions, The Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care, Field Evaluation in the Intelligence and Counterintelligence Context, and A Database for a Changing Economy: Review of the Occupational Information Network....