Eight psych foundations, QME papers, presentations accepted to CSS, ICCM, MCLS conferences

Three papers and five posters by researchers in the Department of Educational Psychology’s psychological foundations of education and quantitative methods in education programs were accepted for presentation at the annual meetings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (ICCM), Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS), and the Cognitive Science Society (CSS). Due to COVID-19, the in-person conferences have since been cancelled, but virtual conferences are being planned.

The following is a listing of the accepted presentations:

Conference paper presentations

Bye, J. K., *Harsch, R., & Varma, S. (2020, June). (In)flexibility in strategy choice when solving missing-operand algebra problems. Paper to be presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Dublin, Ireland. (Conference cancelled – COVID-19)

*Park, J., & Varma, S. (2020, June). Impact of fraction reducibility on task performance. Paper to be presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Dublin, Ireland. (Conference cancelled – COVID-19)

Varma, S. (2020, July). Theories that explain versus theories that describe: the case of constraint satisfaction. Paper to be presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, Toronto, Canada. (Conference cancelled – COVID-19)

Conference poster presentations

Bye, J. K., *Harsch, R., & Varma, S. (2020, August). Algebra decoded: individual differences in strategy selection when solving for ‘x’. Poster to be presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada. (Conference cancelled – COVID-19)

Bye, J. K., *Harsch, R., & Varma, S. (2020, June). The company a number keeps: Multiplicative processing of largely composite numbers. Poster to be presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Dublin, Ireland. (Conference cancelled – COVID-19)

*Marupudi, V., *Rao, V., *Park, J., Harsch, R., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2020, August). Clustering as a precursor to efficient and near-optimal solution of small instances of the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP). Poster to be presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada. (Conference cancelled – COVID-19)

*Marupudi, V., *Rao, V., *Park, J., *Harsch, R., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2020, June). Clustering as a core mathematical ability for solving graph-theoretic problems such as the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP). Poster to be presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Dublin, Ireland. (Conference cancelled – COVID-19)

Mazzocco, M. M., Lukowski, S. L., Bye, J. K., & Padrutt, E. R. (2020, June). Developmental and individual differences in contextual effects on Attention to Number. Symposium paper accepted for presentation at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society. Dublin, Ireland. (Conference cancelled – COVID-19)

* Indicates current or former students.

Bold type indicates faculty or researcher.