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Uri Shafrir (Ph.D, UCLA - Mathematical Science; Ph.D, York University - Developmental Psychology) Associate Professor Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology Director Adult Studies Skills Clinic OISE/UT Phone: 416-946-5626 |
| Biography Dr. Shafrir is an Associate Professor at OISE/UT Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology and Director of the Adult Study Skills Clinic. His research interests include cognitive and affective aspects of individual differences; assessment and remediation of study skill deficits; meaning equivalence instruction and assessment for deep comprehension of conceptual content; design-symmetries, decoration, and human development. Dr. Shafrir is leader of the Meaning Equivalence Reusable Learning Objects (MERLO) research group at OISE/UT and Adaptive Technology Resource Center at Faculty of Information Science. Recent publications Shafrir, U. (1999). Representational competence. In I. E. Sigel (Ed.), The Development of Mental Representation: Theory and Applications. (pp. 371-389). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers. Shafrir, U., & Etkind, M. (2005). Concept Parsing Algorithms: Mapping the Conceptual Content of Disciplines. Version 11.0 (January, 2005). PARCEP, Toronto. Shafrir, U., & Etkind, M. (2006). eLearning for Depth in the Semantic Web. London: British Journal for Educational Technology. Shafrir, U., Etkind, M., & Treviranus J. (2006). eLearning Tools for ePortfolios. In Ali Jaffari and Catherine Kauffman (Eds.), Handbook of Research on ePortfolios. Idea Group. Keywords |
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