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Katherine A. Rawson

Katherine A. Rawson

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Psychology

D-Index
48
Citations
13586
World Ranking
5825
National Ranking
3157

Overview

Katherine A. Rawson is a researcher affiliated with Kent State University in the United States. Their work primarily intersects the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with specific emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. Their research also includes contributions to Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Education.

Their scholarly interests concentrate on topics such as Memory Processes and Influences, Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning, Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Educational Strategies and Epistemologies, and Science Education and Pedagogy.

They have contributed to various academic journals, frequently publishing in venues including:

  • Educational Psychology Review
  • Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Cognition
  • Topics in Language Disorders
  • Learning and Instruction

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Successive Relearning: An Underexplored but Potent Technique for Obtaining and Maintaining Knowledge (2022) published in Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • The Role of Effort in Understanding Educational Achievement: Objective Effort as an Explanatory Construct Versus Effort as a Student Perception (2020) published in Educational Psychology Review
  • A Review of the Application of Distributed Practice Principles to Naming Treatment in Aphasia (2020) published in Topics in Language Disorders
  • Effects of distributed practice and criterion level on word retrieval in aphasia (2020) published in Cognition
  • How much do college students with ADHD benefit from retrieval practice when learning key-term definitions? (2020) published in Learning and Instruction

Their frequent collaborators include John Dunlosky, Sabrina Badali, Erica L. Middleton, Julia Schuchard, and Jessica L. Janes.

Best Publications

  • Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology

    John Dunlosky;Katherine A. Rawson;Elizabeth J. Marsh;Mitchell J. Nathan

  • Category Norms: An Updated and Expanded Version of the Battig and Montague (1969) Norms.

    James P Van Overschelde;Katherine A Rawson;John Dunlosky

  • Testing the retrieval effort hypothesis: Does greater difficulty correctly recalling information lead to higher levels of memory?

    Mary A. Pyc;Katherine A. Rawson

  • Overconfidence produces underachievement: Inaccurate self evaluations undermine students’ learning and retention

    John Dunlosky;Katherine A. Rawson

  • Why Testing Improves Memory: Mediator Effectiveness Hypothesis

    Mary A. Pyc;Katherine A. Rawson

  • Optimizing schedules of retrieval practice for durable and efficient learning: how much is enough?

    Katherine A. Rawson;John Dunlosky

  • The what, how much, and when of study strategies: comparing intended versus actual study behaviour.

    Rachael N Blasiman;John Dunlosky;Katherine A Rawson

  • Rereading Effects Depend on Time of Test.

    Katherine A. Rawson;Walter Kintsch

  • The rereading effect: metacomprehension accuracy improves across reading trials.

    Katherine A. Rawson;John Dunlosky;Keith W. Thiede

  • What constrains the accuracy of metacomprehension judgments? Testing the transfer-appropriate-monitoring and accessibility hypotheses

    John Dunlosky;Katherine A. Rawson;Erica L. Middleton

  • The METER: a brief, self-administered measure of health literacy.

    Katherine A. Rawson;John Gunstad;John Gunstad;Joel Hughes;Joel Hughes;Mary Beth Spitznagel;Mary Beth Spitznagel

  • How and when do students use flashcards

    Kathryn T. Wissman;Katherine A. Rawson;Mary A. Pyc

  • The Power of Successive Relearning: Improving Performance on Course Exams and Long-Term Retention

    Katherine A. Rawson;John Dunlosky;Sharon M. Sciartelli

  • The interim test effect: Testing prior material can facilitate the learning of new material

    Kathryn T. Wissman;Katherine A. Rawson;Mary A. Pyc;Mary A. Pyc

  • Are performance predictions for text based on ease of processing

    Katherine A. Rawson;John Dunlosky

  • Comprehension and Situation Awareness

    Francis T. Durso;Katherine A. Rawson;Sara Girotto

  • Improving students’ self-evaluation of learning for key concepts in textbook materials

    Katherine A. Rawson;John Dunlosky

  • Why is test-restudy practice beneficial for memory? An evaluation of the mediator shift hypothesis.

    Mary A. Pyc;Katherine A. Rawson

  • General knowledge norms: Updated and expanded from the Nelson and Narens (1980) norms

    Sarah K. Tauber;John Dunlosky;Katherine A. Rawson;Matthew G. Rhodes

  • Examining the efficiency of schedules of distributed retrieval practice.

    Mary A. Pyc;Katherine A. Rawson

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Cognition and Education

    John Dunlosky;Katherine A. Rawson

Frequent Co-Authors

John Dunlosky
John Dunlosky Kent State University
Joel W. Hughes
Joel W. Hughes Kent State University
John Gunstad
John Gunstad Kent State University
R. Reed Hunt
R. Reed Hunt University of Mississippi
Mary Beth Spitznagel
Mary Beth Spitznagel Kent State University
Elizabeth J. Marsh
Elizabeth J. Marsh Duke University
Larry L. Jacoby
Larry L. Jacoby Washington University in St. Louis
Myrna F. Schwartz
Myrna F. Schwartz Temple University
Reid Hastie
Reid Hastie University of Chicago
Christopher Hertzog
Christopher Hertzog Georgia Institute of Technology

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