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New Pub Alert! Improving Reading Comprehension in Spanish Using iSTART-E: A Pilot Study
DisCo's director, Dr. Katie McCarthy, worked with a team in Concepción, Chile to examine the effects of a iSTART-Español, an intelligent...

Dr. McCarthy
Oct 6, 20201 min read
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Georgia State University in the News
The Guardian recently published a piece on the success of GSU's technology-mediated and student-first approaches in the time of COVID....

Dr. McCarthy
Sep 3, 20201 min read
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New Pub Alert! Personalized learning in iSTART: Past modifications and future design
We are excited to be included in the a special issue of Journal of Research on Technology and Education on Personalization in...

Dr. McCarthy
Sep 1, 20201 min read
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New Pub Alert!: NLP/Hierarchical ML in Text Difficulty Classification (IJAIED)
This paper is a follow-up to our Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS) proceedings from 2018. We used a novel approach to generate human...

Dr. McCarthy
Aug 27, 20201 min read
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Fall 2020 Kickoff!
Back to school is my favorite time of year. New classes, new school supplies, new sweaters. Of course, Fall 2020 looks different for many...

Dr. McCarthy
Aug 26, 20201 min read
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Catch us at the virtual meeting of Society for Text & Discourse
The Disciplinary Comprehension Lab is presenting a variety of virtual poster and spoken presentations at the Society for Text &...

Dr. McCarthy
Jul 21, 20201 min read
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Eleanor Yan receives Research Support Grant to Study International College Students
Eleanor Yan received a Research Support Grant from Georgia State’s Adult Literary Research Center (ALRC). Eleanor’s project is titled “Do...

Dr. McCarthy
Jun 30, 20201 min read
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DisCo Lab at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences
ICLS kicks off this week! We will miss seeing everyone in Nashville. DisCo Lab has three projects presented in the proceedings. Two...

Dr. McCarthy
Jun 19, 20201 min read
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New Pub Alert: Do African American Male and Female Adolescents Differ in Technological Engagement?
African African women are underrepresented in careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). This work takes an...

Dr. McCarthy
Mar 14, 20201 min read
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Dr. McCarthy receives 2020 Amy R. Lederberg Award for Outstanding Research in Educational Psychology
Katie McCarthy, director of the Disciplinary Comprehension Lab, received the 2020 Amy R. Lederberg Award for Outstanding Research in...

Dr. McCarthy
Mar 12, 20201 min read
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Psychonomics & SCiP - See you all in Montreal
Members of the Disciplinary Comprehension Lab and Joe Magliano's Media Comprehension Lab will be presenting talks and posters at the...

Dr. McCarthy
Nov 11, 20191 min read
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What's New in Fall 2019?
Dr. McCarthy and the Disciplinary Comprehension lab are kicking off FOUR new projects this academic year. For more, visit our Projects page.

Dr. McCarthy
Oct 11, 20191 min read
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See us at Society for Text & Discourse in NYC
The Discourse Comprehension Lab @ GSU is presenting several papers and posters this week at the Annual Conference of the Society for Text...

Dr. McCarthy
Jul 7, 20191 min read
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Catch Us @ AIED 2019 in Chicago
Dr. McCarthy is excited to head back to her home city of Chicago to present at Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). The...

Dr. McCarthy
Jun 6, 20191 min read
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American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Toronto
Dr. McCarthy will be in the Division C Panel "New Directions in Culture, Motivation, and Learning" (Sat. 12:20-1:50pm) discussing how she...

Dr. McCarthy
Mar 26, 20191 min read
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Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK'19) - March 6-8th, 2019
Dr. McCarthy is co-organizing this year's conference, hosted at Arizona State University. She is an author on two poster presentations on...

Dr. McCarthy
Jan 29, 20191 min read
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See us at Society for Computers in Psychology & Psychonomics 2019
We will be presenting posters at Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP) and Psychonomics in New Orleans! Implementing the Outer Loop...

Dr. McCarthy
Nov 9, 20181 min read
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