Mina Johnson-Glenberg

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Dr. Johnson-Glenberg received her Doctorate in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1998. There she specialized in reading processes and text comprehension. She has extensive experience in implementing and assessing the effects of reading and text comprehension programs for K-8. During her Post-Doctoral program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Johnson-Glenberg received several private and Federal grants to research individuals with fragile X syndrome, the most common form of heritable Intellectual Disability in the world. She created a neural network of memory processes in these individuals. In 2001, she started the NeuronFarm, LLC, with four SBIR grants from the National Institutes of Health (NICHD) and the US Department of Education (IES). The Web-based product created called 3D-Readers instructs middle school students in metacognitive text comprehension strategies using visualization and proprietary text scoring algorithms. In 2007, she moved to Arizona State University where she is the lead for assessment for SMALLab. SMALLab is an educational space for immersive, embodied learning. The research group is especially interested in the visualization of learning gains over time and in commercializing SMALLab.

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