Early Career Impact Awardee – The Society for Text & Discourse
Dr. Kathryn McCarthy’s work involves conducting both basic and applied research in areas such as reading comprehension, learning from text, and disciplinary literacy. She additionally is interested in how artificial intelligence (AI), data mining, and learning analytics can be used to better understand reading and writing processes and how technology can be used to support students’ literacy skills.
Dr. McCarthy is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Learning Sciences at Georgia State University. Here, in her Disciplinary Comprehension Lab, Dr. McCarthy works to help adolescents and adults to become better students, workers, and citizens through the examination of processes and strategies which support learning, what individual differences affect comprehension and learning, and how advances in technology can be used to make learning more effective and equitable.
Since graduating with her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016, she has produced 29 peer-reviewed journal articles (13 as first author), 21 published proceedings (8 as first author), and 7 book chapters (4 as first author) as well as 34 paper and 53 poster presentations. She notably was a principal investigator and co-principal investigator on projects funded by the IES, NSF, Spencer Foundation, APA Division 15, and multiple philanthropic groups to support cutting edge research in educational psychology and the learning sciences.
