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Christian
Schunn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology, Education, and Intelligent Systems and
Research Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center at the
University of Pittsburgh, directs the SWoRD project. He studies the development
of complex skills, like scientific reasoning and writing, and applies that
research to real world applications in education of middle schoolers, high
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Kwangsu
Cho, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of School of Information Science & Learning
Technologies at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Kwangsu has developed the SWoRD system. |
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Roy
Wilson, Ph.D.
I am currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Learning Research and Development
Center where I had previously worked as a Graduate Student Researcher and Staff
Research Programmer. Currently, I am attempting to model why authors implement
revision suggestions received from peers via SWoRD, a web-based reciprocal peer
review developed by Cho and Schunn at LRDC. In Decmber 2005, I was awarded a
PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in Administrative and Policy Studies,
with a concentration in Social and Comparative Studies in Education and a Minor
in Quantitative Research Methods. I am interested in human and machine
learning, modeling small-group meetings, and agent-based simulation of
small-group educational processes. I also hold graduate degrees in both
Mathematics and Computer Science. Many years ago, I worked at several large
corporations where I used mathematical, simulation, and statistical modeling to
assess the performance and long-term capacity of software.
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Carmela Rizzo, MLIS
My role in SWoRD utilizes my interest in information science to conduct
research on student experiences with writing and peer review. I also design
studies, collect, and analyze data of student peer review and writing revision,
and assist with database management. An additional focus of mine is examining
the issue of plagiarism and how technology can be used in prevention and
detection now that we are in the age of cut and paste.
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Melissa Nelson
Graduate Student Researcher, LRDC, University of Pittsburgh
A first year PhD student in the Cognitive Psychology Program.?My esearch in
SWoRD includes looking at feedback given by the reviewers to see if there are
different types of feedback that could be more useful in making better
revisions.
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Past contributors
Andrea
Rosta Farzan, PhD student at Intelligent Systems Program at University of
Pittsburgh
Soniya Gadgil, Undergraduate research assistant from Duquesne University
Michelle Shoemaker, Undergraduate research assistant from New York University
Christopher D. Coyne, Summer Intern, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, University of California, Davis
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Advisors |
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Alan Lesgold, Ph.D.
Dean of School of Education, University of Pittsburgh |
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Davida Charney, Ph.D.
Department of English, University of Texas at Austin |
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Funded
by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the University of Pittsburgh Provost Office
Copyright ¨Ï 2002-2006 Univ. of Pittsburgh
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