Heather Butler

• Ph.D. Psychology
• Professor (Assistant) at California State University, Dominguez Hills

The Cambridge Handbook of Cognition and Education - edited by John Dunlosky February 2019

Cambridge Core - Cognition - The Cambridge Handbook of Cognition and Education - edited by John Dunlosky

Cambridge Core - Cognition - The Nature of Human Intelligence - edited by Robert J. Sternberg

We all probably know someone who is very intelligent, but does blatantly stupid things. Despite evidence that intelligence predicts a variety of life outcomes, the relationship between intelligence and good thinking is less clear. This research explored whether critical thinking ability or intelligence was the better predictor of real life events....

Critical thinking is a kind of “good” thinking that integrates a set of cognitive skills and dispositions to use those skills with knowledge to increase the chances of success in academic settings, job market, and daily life. The impact of critical thinking on life events, in face of everyday decisions and challenges, is still unclear, and further...

Demand for higher education has created a need for learning technologies that can accommodate the individualized needs of an increasing number of students. Thinking, learning, and memory have been studied extensively in their own right, but additional research on these topics in conjunction with advanced learning technologies is needed. Developers...

Operation ARIES! is an Intelligent Tutoring System that is designed to teach scientific methodology in a game-like atmosphere. A fundamental goal of this serious game is to engage students during learning through natural language tutorial conversations. A tight integration of cognition, discourse, motivation, and affect is desired to meet this goal...

Although educators and employers agree that it is important to assess the critical thinking skills of students and prospective employees, few assessments have been externally validated with real-world outcomes of critical thinking. The Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment (HCTA) is a reliable measure of critical thinking skills and has been validat...

Operation ARA (Acquiring Research Acumen) is a computerized learning game that teaches critical thinking and scientific reasoning. It is a valuable learning tool that utilizes principles from the science of learning and serious computer games. Students learn the skills of scientific reasoning by engaging in interactive dialogs with avatars. They ar...

Operation ARIES! is a serious game that teaches critical thinking about scientific inquiry. The player must help to identify aliens on Earth who are intentionally publishing bad research. The game combines aspects of video games and intelligent tutors in which the player holds conversations with animated agents using natural language. The player fi...

OperationARIES! (or ARIES for short) is an intelligent tutoring system that teaches critical thinking and helps learners acquire scientific inquiry skills. One of the core components of ARIES is "trialogs" which are three-party conversations in natural language among a human student and two artificial pedagogical agents (tutor and fellow student)....

Students interacted with an Intelligent Tutoring System called Operation ARIES!,which involves two agents interacting with the human in natural language trialogs. We investigated the conditions in which the length of the students' contributions is correlated with learning. Word count and the proportional learning gains scores were correlated, espec...

This experiment examined whether the efficacy of an appearance-based sun protection intervention could be enhanced by the addition of social norms information. Southern California college students (N=125, predominantly female) were randomly assigned to either an appearance-based sun protection intervention that consisted of a photograph depicting u...

Abstract: leaf 2. Thesis (M.A.)--California State University San Marcos, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-69).