Collaborators
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Ondrej Pesout
Email:  [email protected]
Education: Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Research Interests: Self-regulated learning, metacognition, social interactions

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Dan Spencer
Email:  [email protected] 
Education: Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Research Interests: Socially Shared Regulation, Metacognition 

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Rayne Sperling
Email:  [email protected]
Education: Ph.D., Univ. of Nebraska
Research Interests: Self-regulated learning, metacognitive monitoring
Homepage: http://www.ed.psu.edu/educ/espse/edpsych/people/rayne-a-sperling

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Hiller Spires
Email:  [email protected]
Education: Ph.D., University of South Carolina
Research Interests: New literacies and teacher education, Game-based literacies and learning, Video as textual production

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Daniell DiFrancesca
Email:  [email protected]
Education: Ph.D. North Carolina State University
Research Interests: Problem solving, self-regulated learning, science

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Li Cao
Email:  [email protected]
Education: Ph.D. McGill University
Research Interests:  Metacognition, self-efficacy, and self-regulated learning.
Homepage: http://www.westga.edu/~lcao/

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Ryan Hargrove
Email:  [email protected]
Education: Ph.D. North Carolina State University
Research Interests:  Creativity, metacognition, landscape design
Homepage: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/LA/UKLA%20Faculty%20and%20staff.html

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Kristin Hoffmann
Email:  [email protected]
Education: Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Research Interests: Reading, Self-Regulated learning

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Art Rice
Email:  [email protected]
Education: M.L.A., Harvard University
Research Interests: Creativity, Study Abroad

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James Lester
Email:  [email protected]
Education: Ph.D., Univ. of Texas
Homepage: http://www.intellimedia.ncsu.edu/people/jlester/ster/

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Lucy Kosturko
Email:  [email protected]
Education: Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Research Interests: My research interests include the development and technical implementation of effective educational technologies and classroom integration, K-12 learning with educational games, and student motivation and engagement levels while participating in educational games.  I collaborated with John's research team on developing Crystal Island Uncharted Discovery, an educational game intended to serve as a supplement to the North Carolina 5th grade Science curriculum.

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Graduate Students
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​Rebeca Calderon
Southern Illinois University, M.S.
[email protected] 
My research interests lie in the areas of creativity, problem solving, and second language learning (SLL). Specifically, I'm interested in understanding more about general vs domain-specificity in creativity, as it relates to problem solving and expertise. In SLL, I'm interested in exploring how metacognition and metalanguage may contribute to fluency and effective communication. I'm currently working with Dr. Nietfeld on various projects that examine metacognition and creativity.

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Samira Syal
​[email protected]
My research interests lie in the areas of reading comprehension, motivation, and self-regulation. I’m specifically interested in examining linguistic-motivational pathways underlying comprehension of science expository texts among elementary students. I’m also interested in understanding the impact of digital game-based learning environments on text comprehension and reading motivation. 

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