Implementing New School Teaching & Resources Using Cognitive Theory
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Dr. Michelle Ellefson
Principal Investigator
Michelle is the reason for the INSTRUCT lab madness. Her scientific interests in cognitive science, neuroscience, cognitive development and education are the reason why we are all here. She's often heard telling people that the lab exists because of her own excitement about the science of cognition and her desire to work with urban schools so that today's children can be empowered by an education improved by research about what makes learning most exciting and successful.
Andrea Molzhon
Graduate Student
Andrea joined the INSTRUCT lab Autumn 2008. She has a B.A. in Psychology from Longwood University. She has research interests in task switching and causal reasoning.
Elisabeth Blagrove
PhD Student, University of Warwick
Elisabeth is completing a PhD at the University of Warwick. The focus of her research includes how visual attention is affected by emotional stimuli; more specifically, the spatial and temporal selection of schematic emotional faces and their effect on attention capture and engagement. She is interested in the differences between negative and positive facial expression and their relation to the theories of threat relevance and negative affect bias associated with underlying mechanisms of visual attention. In addition, she does work in subliminal motor priming and visuo-motor control, and the development of executive function. Elisabeth has been an integral part of our task switching project in reading.
Hima Khamar
Undergraduate RA, Honors College Independent Study Project 2008-2009, Honors Summer Undergraduate Research Program 2008
Hima has just completed her second year as an undergraduate in Biology at VCU. She is interested in pursuing a career in medicine. She has research interests in the link between causal reasoning and scientific reasoning. Currently, she has been working on a project identifying causal reasoning of chemistry content by high school students.
Jazmon Dabney
Undergraduate RA
Jaz is a graduate of George Mason University. She is planning to attend graduate school to continue her studies in cognitive developmental psychology. She has been working in the INSTRUCT lab on the learning complex structures project.
Holly Guelig
Undergraduate RA
Holly is completing her final year as an undergraduate student in the Psychology program at VCU. After graduating, she would like to continue her studies in a master's program in elementary education or educational psychology. Currently, she is working on the task switching & executive functions projects in the INSTRUCT lab.
Calesha Hayes
Undergraduate RA
Calesha is junior in Psychology at VCU. She loves working with children, especially younger ones. Her career goal is to be a school psychologist. She has been working in the INSTRUCT lab on the task switching & executive functions projects.
Tamika Moore
Undergraduate RA
Tamika is a senior in Psychology at VCU. Tamika has been working various INSTRUCT lab projects -- including the causal reasoning in science and the learning complex hierarchical cues projects.
Mariam Osman
Undergraduate RA
Mariam is a junior in Psychology at VCU. She has been involved in the causal reasoning in science research projects.
Earl Yevak
Undergraduate RA
Earl is a senior in Psychology at VCU. He is interested in pursuing a career in counseling psychology. Earl's interest in research are wide ranging, including areas in social psychology such as compliance and obedience to authority, as well as areas in positive psychology such as the study of happiness. Earl has been working in the INSTRUCT lab on the task switching & executive functions and the causal reasoning in science projects.
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Undergraduates
Heather Ball, Helen Breadmore, Rachel Cole-Fletcher, Steve Coluzzi, Amy Clinch, Hema Hirani, Alexandra Hughes, Emma Johnstone, Kiranjit Kooner, Shaun Miller, Rebecca Meijer, Emily Mayor, SaNNa Naqash, Jaclyn Pravau, Debbie Stocker, Adam Sukonick, Joanne Woodford, Seghinha, Williams
Helen Breadmore has completed a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Birmingham.
Amy Clinch and Heather Ball have just started doctoral training in Educational Psychology (EdPsychD) at the University of Birmingham.
Rachel Cole-Fletcher has completed an MSc in Reading, Language and Cognition at the University of York.
Jaclyn Provau has just started graduate training in occupational therapy at Shenandoah University.
Kiranjit Kooner is currently on a PGCE course at the University of Warwick. Emily Mayor and Alexandra Hughes completed PCGE courses at the University of Durham and the University of Warwick, respectively.
