The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (''aka'' LearnLab) is a Science of Learning Center funded by the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

and managed by

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

and the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...

. The PSLC is led by Kenneth Koedinger and

Charles Perfetti Charles Perfetti is the director of, and Senior Scientist for, the Learning and Research Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. His research is centered on the cognitive science of language and reading processes, including but not lim ...

, and includes many other notable scientists, including Vincent Aleven and David Klahr. The PSLC theory wiki collects and organizes research results, including a list of instructional principles that are supported by learning science research. The wiki is open and freely editable. Several notable tools, methods, and theories were developed at the PSLC, including DataShop, LearnSphere, the Knowledge-Learning-Instruction Framework, and the Baker Rodrigo Ocumpaugh Monitoring Protocol.

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Science of Learning Center

Learnlab's theory wiki
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