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The DisCo Lab will be at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Text & Discourse in Padua, Italy. Come see us at the Poster Session II...

DisCo Lab will be at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences in Helsinki this week. Please come see us at our poster where...

Excited to share our latest publication in The Journal of Experimental Education : "The Role of Explanation in Retrieval Practice:...

Dr. McCarthy and DisCo Lab doctoral student, Eleanor Yan, recently published in Policy Insights from the Brain and Behavioral Sciences....

Disciplinary Comprehension Lab PhD student Eleanor Yan was selected as a recipient of the GSU Joanne R. Nurss Endowed Scholarship in...

Our recent study published in the American Journal of Distance Education, explored the impact of providing scaffolds for virtual...

DisCo Lab members are presenting their research in a structured poster session at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research...

Th Check out our new study, published in Learning and Individual Differences. This work is a collaboration between the DisCo Lab, the...

DisCo director, Dr. Kathryn McCarthy was the first author on a publication now available in Technology, Mind, & Behavior. As part of an...

Most of us are familiar with the lines that appear when we misspell a word, but does that feedback help us become better writers?...

Students are often asked to engage in source-based multiple-document reading and writing tasks (i.e, integrated writing tasks) in which...

The fall semester is here! Welcome back, Panthers! The Disciplinary Comprehension (DisCo) Lab is kicking off the semester with some new...

Congratulations to DisCo Lab members Mi'Kayla Newell and Lexi Bandemer for their recognition at the Georgia State University Educational...

Dr. McCarthy participated in the International Alliance to Advance Learning in the Digital Era (IAALDE) event "Technology to Improve...

Now available open-access in Computers! This manuscript details the development and testing of StairStepper, a game-based module with...

Dr. McCarthy is thrilled to have been a part of this work led by GSU Educational Psychology PhD student, Amanda Dahl. In this work,...

DisCo Lab's director, Dr. McCarthy and Dr. Danielle McNamara (Arizona State University) recently sat down with Dr. Jeff Greene to talk...

The Multidimensional Knowledge in Text Comprehension framework (MDK-C) argues that researchers and educators need to do a deeper dive on...

Dr. McCarthy has been working with Dr. Min Kyu Kim in GSU's Learning Technologies program to develop and refine the Student Mental Model...

Come chat with us during the live poster sessions at Psychonomics! Members of the DisCo lab will be presenting their work on Friday and...