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David Therriault 

Associate Professor

David Therriault

Phone

352-273-4345

Email

therriault@coe.ufl.edu

Address

PO BOX 117049
Gainesville FL 32611

About

My primary research interests include the representation of text in memory, comprehending time and space in language, the link between attention and intelligence, the use of perceptual symbols in language, problem solving in engineering, and educational issues related to these topics.

Affiliations

  • School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education
  • University of Florida- School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education

Research Interests

Cognition, Data Collection and Analysis, Development and Adjustment, Higher Education, Language, Literacy, Methodological Research, Quantitative Research, Reading, Research Design, Technology, Technology Trends and Issues

Education

  • Ph.D. - University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002 Major, Cognitive Psychology
  • M.A. - University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999 Major, Cognitive Psychology
  • B.A. - University of New Hampshire [Magna Cum Laude], 1995 Major, Psychology

Professional Appointments

  • Associate Professor, University of Florida, Department of Educational Psychology, 2004-2011
  • Assistant Professor, University of Florida, Department of Educational Psychology, 2004-2011
  • Postdoctoral Fellow Florida State University, 2002-2004

Activities and Honors

  • UFRF Professorship (2014-2016): University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship Award.
  • Anderson Scholars Faculty Honoree (2013)

Selected Grants

Development of the Kindergarten Cognitive and Reading Assessment Tool for iPad (K-CRATI)

Role
  • Co-PI
Funding Agency
  • University of Florida Research Opportunity
Project Period
  • 2011
Award Amount
  • $83,000

The Role of Epistemological Beliefs and Cognitive Processing on Engineering Students' Ability to Solve Ambiguous Problems

Role
  • Co-PI
Funding Agency
  • NSF
Project Period
  • 2009
Award Amount
  • $805,158

Selected Publications

  • Therriault, D. J., Redifer, J. L., Lee, C. S. Wang, Y. (In Press). On Cognition, Need, and Action: How Working Memory and Need for Cognition Influence Leisure Activities. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
  • Lee, C. S., Huggins, A. C., & Therriault, D. J. (In Press). Examining Internal and External Structure Validity Evidence of the Remote Associates Test. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
  • Linderholm, T., Kwon, H., & Therriault, D. J. (In Press). Pre-Reading Instructions to Self-Explain: Facilitating Multiple Text Comprehension. Journal of College Reading and Learning JCRL.
  • Linderholm, T., Therriault, D. J., & Kwon, H. (2014). Multiple science text processing: Building comprehension skills for college readers. Reading Psychology 35(4), 332-356.
  • Koro-Jungberg, M., Douglas, E. P., McNeil, N., Therriault, D. J. & Malcolm, Z. (2013). Re-conceptualizing and de-centring think-aloud methodology in qualitative research. Qualitative Research 13(6), 735-753.
  • Lee, C. S., McNeill, N. J., Douglas, E. P, Koro-Ljungberg, M. E., & Therriault, D. J. (2013). Indispensable Resource? A Phenomenological Study of Textbook Use in Engineering Problem Solving. Journal of Engineering Education 102(2), 269-288.
  • Franks, B. A., Therriault, D. J., Buhr, M. I., Chiang, E. S., Gonzalez, C. M., Kwon, H. K., Schelble, J. L., & Wang, X. (2013). Looking Back: Reasoning and Metacognition with Narrative Texts. Metacognition and Learning 8(2), 145-171.
  • Lee, C. S. & Therriault, D. J. (2013).The cognitive underpinnings of creative thought: A latent variable analysis exploring the roles of intelligence and working memory in associative, divergent, and convergent thinking processes. Intelligence 41(5), 306-320.
  • Douglas, E. P., Koro-Ljungberg, M., McNeil, N. J., Malcolm, Z. T., & Therriault, D. J. (2012). Moving beyond formulas and fixations: Solving open-ended engineering problems. European Journal of Engineering Education 37(6), 627-651.
  • Lee, C. S., Therriault, D. J., Linderholm, T. (2012). On the Cognitive Benefits of Cultural Experience: Exploring the Link between Studying Abroad and Creative Thinking. Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology 26(5), 768-778.
  • McNeill, N., Douglas, E. P., Koro-Ljungberg, M., Therriault, D. J. (2012). Institutional discourses in engineering education and practice. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (AC 2012-4029, 15 pp.)*.
  • Douglas, E. P., Koro-Ljungberg, M., Therriault, D. J., Lee, C. S., McNeill, N., Malcolm, Z. T. (2012) Discourses and social worlds in engineering education: Preparing problem-solvers for engineering practice. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (AC 2012-4025, 15 pp.)*.
  • Linderholm, T., Wang, X., Therriault, D. J., & Zhao, Q. & Jakiel, L. (2012). The accuracy of metacomprehension judgments: The biasing effect of text order. Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology 10(1), 111-128.
  • Schelble, J. L., & Therriault, D. J., & Miller, M. D. (2012). Classifying retrieval strategies as a function of working memory. Memory and Cognition 40(2), 218-230.
  • Therriault, D. J., Lee, C. S., Douglas, E. P., Koro-Ljungberg, M., McNeill, N., & Malcolm, Z. T. (2011). Open-book problem-solving in engineering: An exploratory study. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (AC 2011-1177, 13 pp.)*.
  • Douglas, E. P., Koro-Ljungberg, M., Malcolm, Z. T., McNeill, N., Therriault, D. J., & Lee, C. S. (2011). Moving beyond formulas and fixations: Exploring approaches to solving open-ended engineering problems. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (AC 2011-277, 21 pp.)*.
  • Therriault, D. J. (2011). On the future of object recognition: The contribution of color. In T. Phuong Cao (Ed.), Object Recognition. (pp. 3-14). Rijeka,Croatia: Intech.
  • Chiang, E. S., Therriault, D. J., & Franks, B. A. (2010). Individual Differences in Relative Metacomprehension Accuracy: Variation Within and Across Task Manipulations. Metacognition and Learning 5(2), 121-135.
  • Therriault, D. J., Yaxley, R. H., & Zwaan, R. A. (2009). The role of color diagnosticity in object recognition and language comprehension. Cognitive Processing 10(4), 335-342.
  • Madden, C. J., & Therriault, D. J. (2009). Verb Aspect and Perceptual Simulations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 62(7), 1294-1302.

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