Donna Coch
is Professor in the Department of Education at Dartmouth College. She majored in Cognitive Science as an undergraduate at Vassar College, earned an MEd and EdD in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and held an NIH-funded postdoctoral position at the University of Oregon Brain Development Lab. At Dartmouth, she supervises the undergraduate Reading Brains Lab. Using both event-related potential and behavioral measures, her research explores neural correlates of different aspects of reading and reading development. Professor Coch teaches courses on education, learning, and development; the development of reading; atypical developmental pathways; disability in children’s literature; and what works in education. Goals of both her research and her teaching are to support students in developing interdisciplinary knowledge bases and to make meaningful, useful connections across the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and education.
David B. Daniel
is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at James Madison University, where he founded the Teaching and Learning Lab. He earned an MA and PhD in Life-Span Human Development at West Virginia University. His scholarship is focused on developing usable knowledge for teaching and learning, including the synthesis and translation of scientific findings to authentic teaching and learning contexts, policy, and curricula development, as well as the communication of effective practice to those involved in research and development.