Alan M. Lesgold, an
educational psychologist
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, is professor of psychology and Dean of the
University of Pittsburgh
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School of Education. He received a
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in
psychology
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from
Stanford University
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, where his doctoral advisor was
Gordon Bower (1971) and holds an honorary doctorate from the Open University of the Netherlands. The psychologist has made notable contributions to the
cognitive science of learning and its application to instructional technology.
Lesgold received the award for Distinguished Contributions to Applications of Psychology of Educatipon and Training from the American Psychological Association in 2001.
Select publications
*Assessment to Steer the Course of Learning (2008)
*Towards Valued Human Expertise (2007)
*Collaborative Tools in Educational Practice (2007)
*Modeling the Process of Knowledge Sharing (2007)
See also
*
Lauren Resnick
Lauren B. Resnick is an educational psychologist who has made notable contributions to the cognitive science of learning and instruction. She is a professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, and was previously director of the Univers ...
References
*Lesgold, A., & Lajoie, S. (1991). Complex problem solving in electronics. In R. J. Sternberg & P. A. Frensch (Eds.), ''Complex problem solving: Principles and mechanisms'' (pp. 287–316). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
External links
Alan Lesgold web page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Educational psychologists
American psychologists
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