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Appendix D: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix D: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 319-328
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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 of Wisconsin–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 in 2011, and two periods as acting director.
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Brown Award for Superior Teaching from Rice University. She is a member of the American Educational Research Association, a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and a Division 14 fellow of the American Psychological Association (Society for Industrial and Organi zational Psychologists)
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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 and was recognized as one of the top 1 percent of educational researchers influencing public debate in the United States.
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He was editor of the 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 Intelli gence in Education; and the Federation of Associations in the 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 research 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.
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She is director of the Work Science Center and codirector of the Kanfer-Ackerman laboratory, which conducts longitudinal and large-scale laboratory and field collaborative projects on topics such as workforce aging, work adjustment, cognitive fatigue, skill acquisition, adult development and career trajectories, and self-regulated learning. She has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Learning and Education; Applied Psychology: An International Review; Human Performance; Journal of Applied Psychology; and the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
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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 James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Fellowship Award and has served as editor for The Psychology of Learning and Motivation and Cognitive Psychology.
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She participated in studies investigating the value of educative supports for science teaching in the upper 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 text. 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.
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His recognitions include Stanford Graduate School Advisor of the Year, Teacher of the Year, AERA Article of the Year, Research A rticle of the Year (Association for Educational Computing and Technology) , and Outstanding Young Teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District (Alumni of the School of Education, University of Southern California)
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She served as a AAAS Science and Technology Congressional Fellow sponsored by the American Educational Research Association. She is also a fellow of the APA Minority Fellowship Program and was a postdoctoral research fellow of the National Science Foundation's Quality Education from Minorities Network and of the National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education (University of Virginia, Curry School of Education)
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She joined the National Academies staff in 2009 and currently supports the following projects: How People Learn II, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and Measur ing Human Capabilities. Previously, she supported studies on the Context of Military Environments, Mine Safety: Essential Components of Self-Escape, 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.
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