Dr. John Dunlosky is a Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences, where he has taught since 2004, and is currently the Director of the Science of Learning Center at Kent State University. Since his post-doctoral training at Georgia Institute of Technology, he has explored people’s metacognitive capabilities towards understanding how to improve student learning and achievement. A major aim of his research program is to develop techniques to improve the effectiveness of people’s self-regulated learning across the lifespan.  A fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and current chair of the governing board for the Psychonomic Society, he received the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2010 from Kent State and is a founder of the International Association for Metacognition. He co-authored Metacognition, which is the first textbook on the topic, and has edited several books on education and metacognition. 

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John Dunlosky
Professor & Director of SOLE Center
Department of Psychological Sciences
319 Kent Hall
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242-0001

Email: jdunlosk@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-2207
Fax: 330-672-3786