Lab Members

Veronica Yan
P. I., SLAM Lab
Assistant Professor,
Department of Educational Psychology and Department of Psychology
veronicayan@austin.utexas.edu
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Interests: Effective, motivated self-regulated learning — the cognitive underpinnings of effective learning strategies and the socio-psychological motivation beliefs that enhance academic achievement
Students

Derek Hanson
Dissertating!
Interests: disfluency, choice in the classroom, self-regulated learning, effective study habits

Brendan Schuetze
4th year Ph.D. student
Interests: Retrieval Practice, Metacognition, Quantitative Methods, and Educational Data Mining

Stephany Rea
1st year Ph.D. student
Interests: effective learning and teaching strategies, motivation, and metacognition

Akshay Umashankar
1st year M.A. student
Interests: Metacognition, effective learning strategies, desirable difficulties, and motivation; understanding the essential elements of learning strategies and breaking down the mechanisms behind them.

Connie Fralick
Undergraduate honors student
Interests: Metacognition, effective study strategies, motivation, desirable difficulties, and misconceptions about learning
Lab Affiliates
- Dr. Katherine Muenks and the Learning and Motivational Beliefs (LAMB) Lab
- Dr. Faria Sana and the Cognitive Science of Learning Lab
Lab Alum
- Lisi Wang (PhD, 2021)
- Justin Harvey (MA, 2021)
- Nathaniel Woodward(PhD, 2018)
- Katherine Wilson (MA, 2018)
If you are a current member of the lab, please also see SLAMB Group Resources