Research Interests: |
My research centers on student scholarship. More specifically, I am currently pursuing two major lines of research: education-related metacognition (i.e., thinking about and evaluating one's cognitive processes such as memory and reading comprehension) and multimedia learning (i.e., learning from information presented both verbally and visually).
If you are interested in working in my lab as either a graduate or undergraduate research assistant, please email me for more information. You can read more about my research on my lab website.
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Selected Research: |
- Serra, M. J. (in press). Diagrams increase the recall of non-depicted text when understanding is also increased. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
- Serra, M. J., & Metcalfe, J. (2009). Effective implementation of metacognition. In D. Hacker, J. Dunlosky, & A. Graesser (Eds.). Handbook of Metacognition in Education. (pp. 278-298). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
- Serra, M. J., Dunlosky, J., & Hertzog, C. (2008). Do older adults show less confidence in their monitoring of learning? Experimental Aging Research, 34, 379-391. PDF
- Dunlosky, J., Serra, M. J., & Baker, J. M. C. (2007). Metamemory. In F. T. Durso, R. S. Nickerson, S. T. Dumas, S. Lewandowsky, & T. J. Perfect (Eds.) Handbook of Applied Cognition. 2nd Edition. (pp. 137-161). Chichester, West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Serra, M. J., & Dunlosky, J. (2005). Does retrieval fluency contribute to the underconfidence-with-practice effect? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 1258-1266. PDF
- Dunlosky, J., Serra, M. J., Matvey, G., & Rawson, K. A. (2005). Second-order judgments about judgments of learning [Special issue]. Journal of General Psychology, 132, 335-346. PDF
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Recent Research Presentations:
(#) denotes graduate student author
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- England, B. D.,(#) & Serra, M. J. (2009, November). Judgments Of Forgetting Show Improved Calibration But Impaired Relative Accuracy On A Second Study-Test Trial. Poster presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.
- Serra, M. J., & England, B. D.(#) (2009, May). Diagrams improve memory for science text through repetition. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
- Serra, M. J. (2009, April). Metacognitive errors in learning (and some ways to overcome them). Invited talk, Texas Tech Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center, Lubbock, TX.
- Serra, M. J. (2009, April). Multimedia learning from text with diagrams: Is it “just a repetition effect”? Invited Departmental Colloquium, UTSA, San Antonio, TX.
- Serra, M. J., & England, B. D.(#) (2009, April). Judgments of forgetting show a reduced underconfidence with practice effect. Paper presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX.
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Teaching Interests and Activities: |
Graduate Courses:
- Seminar in Learning Theory
- Seminar in Metacognition
Undergraduate Courses:
- Research Methods
- General Psychology (Supervisor)
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Selected Service: |
- Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied; Journal of Educational Psychology; Memory & Cognition; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Discourse Processes; Experimental Aging Research; SWPA Conference Abstracts; McGraw-Hill Textbooks
- MPA Local Representative, Texas Tech University
- Website Manager, International Association for Metacognition
- Membership Committee, Midwestern Psychological Association
- General Psychology Supervisor, Texas Tech Department of Psychology
- Undergraduate Program Committee, Texas Tech Department of Psychology
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