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John Dunlosky

Professor & Director of Experimental Training
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington (1993)

Research Area: Experimental - Cognitive

Research Interests
 
Areas of research interest involve self-regulated learning, including how aging in adulthood influences strategy use and effectiveness, how individuals of all ages monitor on-going learning as well as dynamically control study and retrieval. Research programs focus on understanding the theoretical bases of these and other components of self-regulated learning.  Special emphasis is placed on how metacognition can be use to improve student education.


International Association for Metacognition

Courses Frequently Taught

  • Cognitive Psychology (graduate)
  • Metacognitive Seminar (graduate)
  • Psychology of Aging (undergraduate)

 

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Dunlosky, J., & Metcalfe, J. (2009). Metacognition. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE.  Japanese translation (2010).

*Ariel, R., Al-Harthy, I.S., Was, C.A., Dunlosy, J. (in press).  Habitual reading biases in the allocation of study time.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Lipko, A.R., Dunlosky, J., *Lipowski, S., & Merriman, W. (in press).  Young children are not underconfident with practice:  The benefit of ignoring a fallible memory heursitic.  Journal of Cognition and Development.

Rawson, K.A., & Dunlosky, J. (in press).  Optimizing schedules of retrieval practice for durable and efficient learning:  How much is enough?  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  General.

*Hartwig, M., Was, C., Isaacson, R., & Dunlosky, J. (in press).  General knowledge monitoring as a predictor of in-class exam performance.  British Journal of Educational Psychology.

Dunlosky, J., & *Ariel, R. (in press).  The influence of agenda-based and habitual processes on item selection during study.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

*Ariel, R., & Dunlosky, J. (2011).  The sensitivity of judgment-of-learning resolution to past test performance, new learning, and forgetting.  Memory & Cognition, 39, 171-184.

Dunlosky, J., *Hartwig, M., Rawson, K.A., & *Lipko, A.R. (2011).  Improving college students' evaluation of text learning using idea-unit standards.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 467-484.

*Bailey, H., Dunlosky, J., & Hertzog, C. (2010).  Metacognitive training at home:  Does it improve older adults' learning?  Gerontology, 56, 414-420.

*Pyc, M.A., & Dunlosky, J. (2010).  Toward an understanding of students' allocation of study time:  Why do they decide to mass or space their practice?  Memory & Cognition, 38, 431-440.

*Denotes graduate student author.

John Dunlosky
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Department of Psychology
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Phone: 330-672-2207
Fax: 330-672-3786
jdunlosk@kent.edu
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