Jennifer Cromley

The Role of Context in Educational RCT Findings: A Call to Redefine “Evidence-Based Practice”

Educational Researcher · 2020 · 58 citations

In this commentary, we complement other constructive critiques of educational randomized control trials (RCTs) by calling attention to the commonly ignored role of context in causal mechanisms undergirding educational phenomena. We argue that evidence for the central role of context in causal mechanisms challenges the assumption that RCT findings can be uncritically generalized across settings. Anchoring our argument with an example from our own multistudy RCT project, we argue that the scientif…

Learning from Multiple Representations

Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 55 citations

Learning from multiple representations (MRs) is not an easy task for most people, despite how easy it is for experts. Different combinations of representations (e.g., text + photograph, graph + formula, map + diagram) pose different challenges for learners, but across the literature researchers find these to be challenging learning tasks. Each representation typically includes some unique information, as well as some information shared with the other representation(s). Finding one piece of infor…

Metacognition in education: Translational research.

Translational Issues in Psychological Science · 2020 · 30 citations

Metacognition, Cognitive Strategy Instruction, and Reading in Adult Literacy

2023-04-12 · 27 citations

Metacognitive monitoring and control both play an important role in reading comprehension—the goal of reading——and there are promising techniques for improving students’ metacognition when they read. This chapter focuses on understanding the role of metacognition in reading, sources of metacognition problems, and ways to remedy these problems—all of which can be powerful tools for improving adults’ reading comprehension. Researchers have used many different approaches to measure metacognitive mo…

Intersecting Identities of Women in Engineering

2020 · 8 citations

Mendenhall's research focuses on racial microaggressions in higher education. She examines how living in racially segregated neighborhoods with high levels of violence affects Black mothers' mental and physical health using qualitative, quantitative and genomic analysis. She uses