Research Team
Katie McCarthy
Associate Professor, Ed. Psychology
Lab Director
Affiliate Faculty: Center for Research on the Challenges of Acquiring Language & Literacy (RCALL)
Affiliate Faculty: Adult Literacy Research Center (ALRC)
Dr. McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Learning Sciences at Georgia State University. She earned her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Science of Learning and Educational Technology Lab at Arizona State University.
Dr. McCarthy's conducts basic and applied research in in areas such as reading comprehension, learning from text, and disciplinary literacy. She is also interested in how artificial intelligence (AI), data mining, and learning analytics can be used to better understanding reading and writing processes and how technology can be used to support students' literacy skills.
Graduate Students
Ajibola Salami
Doctoral Student, Ed. Psych
Ajibola is a doctoral student in the Educational Psychology Program at Georgia State University. He is a Center for Research on the Challenges of Acquiring Language & Literacy (RCALL) graduate fellow.
Kyra McNaughton
Masters' Student, Ed. Psych
Kyra is an MS student in the Educational Psychology Program at Georgia State University.
Research Assistants
We are delighted to work with graduate and undergraduate research assistants from a variety of degree programs across campus.
Research assistants support research design, participant recruitment, data collection, and analysis. They are also often co-authors on conference presentations and journal publications.
If you are interested in working in the lab, email Dr. McCarthy.
Lab Alumni
Eleanor Fang Yan
Eleanor Fang Yan was a Center for Research on the Challenges of Acquiring Language & Literacy (RCALL) graduate fellow and a recipient of the Joanne R. Nurss Endowed Scholarship in Life-Long Literacy and the Amy Lederberg Award for Outstanding Research in Educational Psychology.
Eleanor's dissertation was titled "Multi-Group Path Analysis of Foundational and Discourse-Level Skills between Native and Non-native English speakers in Adult Literacy".
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Research Assistant Alumni
Master's Students
Davis Whaley (degree conferred 2021)
Lexi Elara (degree conferred 2021)
Mi'Kayla Newell (degree conferred 2020)
Graduate Research Assistants
Monique Harrell (2025-2026)
Lily Inglima (2025)
Joan Ebert (2023-2025)
Brynne Borner (2023-2025)
Menna Abo-Elhamd (2023-2025)
Annie Kipcak (2023-2025)
Anton Vogel (2022-2025)
Bharadwaj Balaji (2023-2024)
Heejoon Choi (2023-2024)
Philip Ehrenberg (2023-2024)
Shanice Gay (2023-2024)
Dianah Kiatabi (2023-2024)
Maggie Schneider (2023-2024)
Shuyuan Tu (2023-2024)
Adeola Phillips (2021-2023)
Mi'Kayla Newell (2018-2023)
Amanda Dahl (2022-2023)
Jacob Snyder (2020-2022)
Donald Freeman (2022)
Zareen Hasan (2022)
James Malloy (2022)
Sierra Smith (2022)
Michelle Tobar (2022)
Qianyi Wang (2022)
Melanie Knezevic (2020-2021)
Corrine Skinner (2019-2021)
Dimitri Wing-Paul (2019-2021)
Danielle Brooks (2019-2021)
Elizabeth Kenney (2019-2020)
Kaitlyn Adams (2018-2020)
HyeIn Kim (2019-2020)
Campbell Speed (2019-2020)
Amelia Spencer (2019-2020)
Rachael Zimmerman (2019-2020)
Matthew Gilpatrick (2018-2019)
Haley Robinson (2018-2019)
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Kristina Colón (2020)
Cainan Barnes (2018-2019)
Nari Ryoo (2019)