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).
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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., & Dunlosky, J. (2010).
Metacomprehension judgments reflect the belief that diagrams
improve learning from text. Memory, 18, 698-711.
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- Serra, M. J. (2010). Diagrams increase the recall of non-depicted text when understanding is also increased. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review,
17, 112-116.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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Recent Research Presentations:
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- Flores, F. R.,(#) &
Serra, M. J. (2010, November). When Less is More: The
Benefits of Alternating Fewer Diagrams in Multimedia Learning.
Poster presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society, St. Louis, MO.
- England, B. D.,(#) &
Serra, M. J. (2010, November). Testing Benefits the
Relative and Absolute Accuracy of Judgments of Learning (JOLs).
Poster presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society, St. Louis, MO.
- Serra, M. J., & Flores, F. R.(#)
(2010, May). Judging Remembering and Forgetting in a
Two-Dimensional Evaluative Space. Paper presented at the 82nd
Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association,
Chicago, IL.
- England, B. D.,(#) &
Serra, M. J. (2010, May). Decomposing the Memory for
Past Test Heuristic in the Underconfidence-with-Practice Effect.
Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Midwestern
Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
- Serra, M. J., Ellis, K.,(##)
Marks, D.,(##) & Scardino, J.(##)
(2010, May). Examining the Link between Memory and
Understanding in Multimedia Learning. Poster presented at the
82nd Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association,
Chicago, IL.
- Shanks, L.,(##) & Serra,
M. J. (2010, March). The Effect of Topic Expertise on
the Accuracy of Judgments of Learning. Poster presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Great Plains Honors Council, Tulsa, OK.
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Teaching Interests and Activities: |
Graduate Courses:
- Seminar in Learning Theory
- Seminar in Metacognition
- Seminar in Teaching Psychology
Undergraduate Courses:
- Research Methods
- Cognitive Psychology
- 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; Memory; Journal of Educational
Psychology; Memory & Cognition; Quarterly Journal of
Experimental Psychology; Discourse Processes; Experimental Aging
Research; European Journal of Cognitive Psychology; Israel
Science Foundation (ISF) grants; SWPA Conference Abstracts;
McGraw-Hill Textbooks; Norton Textbooks; Sinauer Textbooks;
Worth 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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Professional Memberships: |
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