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Current Projects:
- Mapping Procedures to Concepts: Equivalence
Analogies
- CMI 2006: Inversion Use in Grades 2-4
- CELF paper
- CMI 2007: Development of Inversion
- MTL special issue article on inversion
- CLLRNet Numeracy: Optimizing
Children’s Understanding of Mathematical Equivalence
- Preschool Inversion Use
- Educational technology among older adults
- Memory in Video Games
- Investigating Changes in Mathematical Thinking
Through Computer-Based Instruction
- Candidacy exam preparation
Recent
publications:
Peer-reviewed
Publications
Boechler,
P.M.,
Foth, D. & Watchorn, R. (2007). Educational technology research
with older
adults: Adjustments in protocol, materials and procedures. Educational Gerontology, 33, 221-235.
Boechler,
P.M.,
Foth, D. & Watchorn, R. (2006). The
influence of reading and memory skills on older adults’
information
search and learning in educational hypermedia. Proceedings
of ELearn 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii:
AACE
Book
Chapter
Cook,
A. M., Adams, K., Calixto, R., Gan,
L. S., Ganton, A., Rees, A., Simpson, T., & Watchorn, R. (in
press). Assistive
technologies for
cognitive
augmentation. In A.
M. Cook & S. M.
Hussey, Assistive technologies (3rd
ed.). St. Louis:
Mosby.
Refereed
Conference Presentations
Watchorn,
R., Bisanz, J., Fast, L.,
LeFevre, J., Smith-Chant, B. L., Skwarchuk, S., Kamawar, D. (2007,
March). Inversion use among students in
grades 2-4. Poster
to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in
Child
Development, Boston,
MA.
Boechler,
P.M.,
Foth, D. & Watchorn, R. (2006, October). The
influence of reading and memory skills
on older adults’ information search and learning in
educational hypermedia.
Poster presented at ELearn: World Conference on E-Learning in
Corporate,
Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education, Honolulu,
Hawaii.
Boechler,
P., Foth, D., & Watchorn,
R. (2006, May). “My memory is shot but how can I
help?”: Educational
technology research with older adults. Roundtable at the
Annual Conference for the Canadian Association of University Continuing
Education, Toronto,
Ontario.
Watchorn,
R., & Bisanz, J.
(2005, October). Enduring instructional effects on
equivalence
problems. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the
Cognitive
Development Society, San Diego, CA.
Non-refereed
Publications
Boechler,
P.M., Foth, D., & Watchorn, R. (2006). “My memory is
shot but how can I help?”: Educational
technology research with older adults.
Proceedings
of the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education, Toronto,
Ontario.
Non-refereed
Research Presentations
Watchorn,
R., Bisanz, J.,
Fast, L., LeFevre, J., Smith-Chant, B. L., Skwarchuk, S., Kamawar, D.
(2007,
March). Calculational
skill and the use of conceptually advanced solution procedures. Poster
presented at
the University of Alberta Department of Psychology
Royce Conference, Edmonton, AB.
Boechler,
P.M.,
Foth, D. & Watchorn, R. (2007, January). The
influence of reading and memory
skills on older adults’ information search and learning in
educational
hypermedia. Poster to be
presented at annual
research event for the
Centre for Aging, University
of Alberta,
Edmonton,
AB.
Boechler,
P.M., Foth, D. & Watchorn, R. (2006, March). “My
memory is shot but how can
I help?”: Educational
Technology Research with Older
Adults. Poster presented at annual
research event for the Centre for Aging, University
of Alberta,
Edmonton,
AB.
Watchorn,
R., & Bisanz, J.
(2006, March). Mapping procedures to concepts: Using equivalence
knowledge in
math. Poster
presented at the University
of Alberta Department of Psychology Royce Conference, Edmonton,
AB.
Watchorn,
R. (2004, May).
Visualization of generated words: Test of the orthographic recoding
hypothesis. Poster
presented at the
Ontario Undergraduate Thesis Conference, Ottawa, ON.
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