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Education

2020—present
Doctor of Philosophy
Educational Psychology: Learning and Cognition Track
University of Minnesota
2018—2019
Master of Arts
Educational Psychology: Learning and Cognition Track
University of Minnesota
Thesis: Analogical and Causal Explanation in Knowledge Revision
2010—2014
Bachelor of Arts
Major: International Studies: General Track: Political Economy
Minor: Japanese Language
University of Washington

Research Experience

2022—present
Graduate Research Assistant
iCODE: Adaptive Training of Students' Code Comprehension Processes
PIs: Dr. Vasile Rus and Dr. Panayiota Kendeou
Funded by Institute of Educational Sciences
2020—present
Graduate Research Assistant
Mathematics, Abstraction, Learning, and Thinking (MALT) Lab
PI: Dr. Jeffrey K. Bye
2020—2021
Graduate Research Assistant
iSTART-Early: Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking for Young Developing Readers
PIs: Dr. Danielle McNamara, Dr. Panayiota Kendeou, and Dr. Carol Connor
Funded by Institute of Educational Sciences
2018—present
Graduate Research Assistant
Reading and Learning Lab
Advisor: Dr. Panayiota Kendeou
2018—present
Graduate Research Assistant
Technology-Based Early Language Comprehension Intervention (TELCI) and Early Language Comprehension Individualized Instruction (ELCII)
PIs: Dr. Panayiota Kendeou and Dr. Kristen McMaster
Funded by Institute of Educational Sciences

Publications

Published

Hwang, H., Choi, S., Guha, M., Harsch, R. M., McMaster, K., & Kendeou, P. (2024 in-press). Indirect and direct contributions of executive functions to reading comprehension. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Contributions by R. M. Harsch: investigation, stimuli development
Johnson, V., Butterfuss, R., Harsch, R. M., & Kendeou, P. (2024). Patterns of belief and trust in climate change information. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Contributions by R. M. Harsch: conceptualization, writing (review, editing)
Harsch, R. M. & Kendeou, P. (2023). Learning from texts with analogical and causal explanations. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 73102172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2023.102172 Contributions by R. M. Harsch: conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, investigation, stimuli development, software, visualisation, writing (original draft and editing), all under supervision by P. Kendeou.
Hwang, H., Orcutt, E., Reno, E., Kim, J., Harsch, R. M., McMaster, K., Kendeou, P., & Slater, S. (2023). Making the most of read-alouds to support primary-grade students' inference-making. The Reading Teacher, 77(2), 167-177. http://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.2226 Contributions by R. M. Harsch: conceptualization, writing (review and editing)
Bye, J. K., Harsch, R. M., & Varma, S. (2022). Decoding fact fluency and procedural flexibility in algebra problem solving: An individual differences approach. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 8(2), 281-294. https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.7093 Contributions by R. M. Harsch: conceptualization, stimuli development, methodology, writing (review and editing)
Johnson, V., Butterfuss, R., Kim, J., Orcutt, E., Harsch, R. M., & Kendeou, P. (2022). The 'Fauci Effect': Reducing COVID-19 Misconceptions and Vaccine Hesitancy Using an Authentic Multimodal Intervention. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 70(2022), 102084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2022.102084 Contributions by R. M. Harsch: conceptualization, writing (review and editing)
Kendeou, P., Harsch, R. M., Butterfuss, R., Aubele, J. D., & Kim, J. (2020). Intellectual survival in the context of multiple representations and perspectives. In P. Van Meter, A. List, D. Lombardi, & P. Kendeou (Eds.), Handbook of multiple representations and perspectives(pp. 479-497). Routledge https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429443961 Contributions by R. M. Harsch: conceptualization, writing (original draft, review, and editing)

In Preparations

Bye, J. K., Harsch, R. M., & Varma, S. ([in progress]). The company a number keeps: Multiplicative processing of largely composite numbers. [in progress], Contributions by R. M. Harsch: conceptualization, stimuli development, methodology, writing (first draft, review, editing)
Harsch, R. M. & Kendeou, P. ([in progress]). The 'contributions' of source expertise, source memory, and information recognition to belief. [in progress], Contributions by R. M. Harsch: conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, investigation, stimuli development, software, visualisation, writing (original draft and editing), all under supervision by P. Kendeou.
Johnson, V., Harsch, R. M., & Kendeou, P. ([in progress]). The impact of trust & expertise on source credibility. [in progress], Contributions by R. M. Harsch: conceptualization, stimuli development

Conference Presentations

Conference Proceedings

Marupudi, V., Harsch, R. M., Rao, V. N. V., Bye, J. K., Park, J., & Varma, S. (2022, July). Use of clustering in human solutions of the traveling salesperson problem. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati, & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Presented to The 44th Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, ON, Canada. Contributions by R. M. Harsch: conceptualization, methodology, writing (review and editing)
Marupudi, V., Harsch, R. M., Rao, V. N. V., Bye, J. K., Park, J., & Varma, S. (2021, July). The role of clustering in the efficient solution of small Traveling Salesperson Problems. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Tesmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vienna, Austria and virtual. Contributions by R. M. Harsch: conceptualization, methodology, writing (review and editing)
Bye, J. K., Harsch, R. M., & Varma, S. (2021, April). Decoding individual differences in missing-operand problem strategies. 2021 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Virtual. Contributions by R. M. Harsch: conceptualization, methodology, writing (review and editing)

Presentations and Symposia

Hwang, H., McMaster, K., Kendeou, P., Slater, S., Choi, S., Reno, E., Burey, J., Harsch, R. M., & Guha, M. (2024, November). Enhancing K-5 students' literacy and knowledge through content-rich curricula: Using Inference Galaxy to build literacy skills and content knowledge in kindergarten. In Cervetti, G. (Chairs), [Symposium]. Submitted to Society for the Scientific Study of Reading 31st Annual Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Harsch, R. M., Bye, J. K., Kang, Y., Oli, P., Banjade, R., Tawfik, A. A., Rus, V., & Kendeou, P. (2024, July). From text cohesion to code cohesion: Preliminary research [Spoken presentation]. Presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse. Chicago, IL, USA.
Harsch, R. M. & Kendeou, P. (2024, July). The role of source expertise and its textual frequency in memory for explanations. [Poster presentation]. Presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting for the Society for Text & Discourse. Chicago, IL, USA.
Schmahl, I., González-Márquez, M., Fulsher, A. J., Foltz, A., Harsch, R. M., & Bye, J. K. (2024, July). Effective media selection can support scientific transparency. In Roth, P., Guzmán Olmos, A. M., & Olteanu, A. (Chairs), Transforming knowledge formats: Media imaginations of time, space, and scientific discourse beyond print [Symposium]. 2024 Quadrennial Joint Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
González-Márquez, M., Bye, J. K., Foltz, A., Schmahl, I., Fulsher, A. J., Harsch, R. M., & Brembs, B. (2024, July). Current open science practices as broken metonymy. In Rodríguez, H., Urueña, S., & Ibarra, A. (Chairs), Anticipatory transformations, disruptions and variations 'in' and 'for' Open Science [Symposium]. 2024 Quadrennial Joint Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Armstrong, A., Harsch, R. M., Varma, S., & Bye, J. K. (2024, June). Mental strategies for estimating the relative magnitude of exponential expressions [Poster presentation]. Presented to the 2024 Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society. Washington, D.C., USA.
Harsch, R. M. & Kendeou, P. (2023, November). The influence of source expertise on recognition memory and source memory [Poster presentation]. Presented at Psychonomic Society's 64rd Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California.
Johnson, V., Harsch, R. M., & Kendeou, P. (2023, November). The influence of trust in science on credibility judgments of scientists [Poster presentation]. Presented at Psychonomic Society's 64rd Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California.
Bye, J. K., Harsch, R. M., Kang, Y., Oli, P., Banjade, R., Tawfik, A. A., Rus, V., & Kendeou, P. (2023, November). A systematic investigation of expert and novice programmers' ratings of code cohesion [Poster presentation]. Presented at Psychonomic Society's 64rd Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California.
Johnson, V., Harsch, R. M., & Kendeou, P. (2023, August). Perceptions of scientists: The influence of trust and expertise on source credibility [Poster presentation]. Presented at the 2023 American Psychological Association Convention. Washington D.C..
Johnson, V., Harsch, R. M., & Kendeou, P. (2023, August). When is a scientist perceived to be credible? Trust and expertise in socio-scientific domains [Poster presentation]. Paper presented at the 2023 European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI). Thessaloniki, Greece.
Johnson, V., Harsch, R. M., & Kendeou, P. (2023, June). In expert scientists we trust? Benevolence vs. integrity [Poster presentation]. Presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Oslo, Norway.
Harsch, R. M. & Kendeou, P. (2023, June). The role of source expertise on memory recognition: Accuracy and response times [Poster presentation]. Presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Oslo, Norway.
Harsch, R. M. & Kendeou, P. (2022, November). Exploring the structure of expertise and trustworthiness judgements [Poster presentation]. Presented at Psychonomic Society's 63rd Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts.
Johnson, V., Butterfuss, R., Kim, J., Orcutt, E., Harsch, R. M., & Kendeou, P. (2022, August). Social media and debunking of misinformation: The 'Fauci effect' [Poster presentation]. Presented at the 2022 American Psychological Association Convention. Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A..
Bye, J. K., Harsch, R. M., & Varma, S. (2022, July). Neighborhood effects for composite (i.e. non-prime) numbers [Poster presentation]. Presented to The 44th Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, ON, Canada.
Harsch, R. M. & Kendeou, P. (2022, July). Does being an expert matter? The influence of source expertise on recognition memory [Poster presentation]. Presented to The 44th Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, ON, Canada.
Harsch, R. M. & Kendeou, P. (2022, July). Does expertise still matter? The effects of expertise on memory [Poster presentation]. Presented to the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Milan, Italy.
Marupudi, V., Harsch, R. M., Park, J., Rao, V. N. V., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2022, June). Human use of clustering to solve traveling salesperson problems [Poster presentation]. Presented at the 2022 Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Conference. Ghent, Belgium.
Harsch, R. M., Fulsher, A. J., Anthony, L., & Bye, J. K. (2022, June). We Have to Use Letters Now?! Motivating Early Algebra Understanding [Poster presentation]. Presented at the 2022 Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Conference. Ghent, Belgium.
Kendeou, P., McMaster, K. L., Reno, E. A., Burey, J., Kim, J., Orcutt, E., Slater, S., Harsch, R. M., Stagnaro, K., Hwang, H., & Chen, C. (2022, March). Supporting elementary students' reading comprehension development using Inference Galaxy [Poster presentation]. Presented at the College of Education and Human Development Research Day. Minneapolis, MN, U. S. A..
Harsch, R. M., Fulsher, A. J., Anthony, L. E., & Bye, J. K. (2022, February). Who put letters in my math?! Motivating early algebra understanding [Poster presentation]. Presented at the University of Minnesota Department of Educational Psychology Graduate Student Research Day. Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Harsch, R. M. & Kendeou, P. (2022, February). Children’s inference-making difficulty is not well predicted by three natural language processing based difficulty metrics [Poster presentation]. Presented at the Learning Informatics Lab Research Symposium. Minneapolis, MN, U. S. A..
Harsch, R. M. & Kendeou, P. (2021, July). A metric of children's inference-making difficulty during language comprehension [Poster presentation]. 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Vienna, Austria and virtual.
Harsch, R. M., Kendeou, P., & McNamara, D. (2021, July). Adult categorization of questions about a text by source of answer and importance to main ideas [Poster presentation]. Presented to 2021 Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Virtual.
Bye, J. K., Harsch, R. M., & Varma, S. (2021, July). The company a number keeps: Multiplicative processing of largely composite numbers [Poster presentation]. Presented to the 4th Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society. Virtual.
Marupudi, V., Rao, V. N. V., Park, J., Harsch, R., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2020). Clustering as a core mathematical ability for solving graph-theoretic problems such as the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) [Poster presentation]. 3rd Annual Conference of the Math Cognition and Learning Society. Dublin, Ireland.
Bye, J. K., Harsch, R. M., & Varma, S. (2020). Algebra decoded: individual differences in strategy selection when solving for 'x' [Poster presentation]. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, Canada.
Marupudi, V., Rao, V. N. V., Park, J., Harsch, R. M., Bye, J. K., & Varma, S. (2020). Clustering as a precursor to efficient and near-optimal solution of small instances of the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) [Poster presentation]. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, Canada.
Harsch, R. M. & Kendeou, P. (2020). Epistemic beliefs, language, and sources: Interactive effects on belief and trust of scientific information [Poster presentation]. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, Canada.
Kim, J., Orcutt, E., Butterfuss, R., Harsch, R. M., Choi, D., Johnson, V., Will, K. K., & Kendeou, P. (2020). What Predicts Intention to Receive a Future COVID-19 Vaccine? Role of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior [Poster presentation]. 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Toronto, Canada.
Bye, J. K., Harsch, R. M., & Varma, S. (2020, November). (In)flexibility in strategy choice for solving missing-operand algebra problems. In Chan, J. Y-C. & Bye, J. K. (Chairs), Problem-solving strategy in algebra: From lab to practice [Symposium]. 3rd Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Dublin, Ireland.
Harsch, R. M. & Kendeou, P. (2020, April). Augmenting refutations with analogies versus explanations to overcome misconceptions [Poster presentation]. AERA Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA (Conference Cancelled).
Harsch, R. & Kendeou, P. (2019). Relational reasoning as a catalyst for knowledge revision [Poster presentation]. College of Education and Human Development Research Day. Minnesota, USA.
Butterfuss, R., Im, S., Aubele, J. D., Bresina, B., Harsch, R., McMaster, K., & Kendeou, P. (2019). The promise of a Technology-Based Early Language Comprehension Intervention (TELCI) for students with comprehension difficulties [Poster presentation]. Society for Text & Discourse Annual Meeting. New York, NY.
Kim, J., Butterfuss, R., Harsch, R. M., Aubele, J., & Kendeou, P. (2019). When misconceptions strike back: the durability of the refutation text effect [Poster presentation]. Society for Text & Discourse Annual Meeting. New York, NY.
Aubele, J. D., Butterfuss, R., Harsch, R. M., & Kendeou, P. (2019). Epistemic dimensions of language and their influence on trust and belief of information [Poster presentation]. Society for Text & Discourse Annual Meeting. New York, NY.
Harsch, R. & Kendeou, P. (2019). Analogical reasoning as a catalyst for knowledge revision? [Poster presentation]. Society for Text & Discourse Annual Meeting. New York, NY.
Bye, J. K., Harsch, R. M., & Varma, S. (2019). Algebraic vs. arithmetic conceptions of 'x' when solving missing-operand problems [Poster presentation]. Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Conference. Ontario, Canada.
Harsch, R. M. & Kendeou, P. (2019). The role of analogical reasoning and explanations in knowledge revision [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society 60th Annual Meeting. Quebec, Canada.
Kendeou, P., McMaster, K., & The TeLCI Team. (2019, July). Efficacy of an innovative inference making intervention in Grades 1-2. In Turcotte, C. (Chairs), Teaching reading comprehension [Symposium]. The 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading, Toronto, Canada.
Kendeou, P., McMaster, K., Im, S., Slater, S., & The TeLCI Team. (2019, April). The promise of TeLCI for students with comprehension difficulties [Poster presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Toronto, Canada.
Kendeou, P., McMaster, K., Slater, S., & The ELCII Team. (2019, January). ELCII: Early Language Comprehension Individualized Instruction [Poster presentation]. NCER/NCSER Annual Principal Investigators Meeting. Washington, DC.

Teaching Experience

2022 Spring,
2021 Autumn,
2020 Spring,
2018 Autumn
Graduate Teaching Assitant: Section Lead
Educational Psychology 1281: Psychological Science Applied
Instructor: Dr. Martin van Boekel
2019 Autumn
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Educational Psychology 3301: Introduction to Educational Psychology
Instructor: Dr. Martin van Boekel
2019 Spring
Graduate Teaching Assistant: Section Lead
Educational Psychology 3119/5001: Learning, Cognition, and Assessment
Instructor: Dr. Martin van Boekel
2016—2018
Tutor and Translator at HL Language Services (Seattle, WA)
2016
High School Japanese Teacher at University Prep (Seattle, WA)
2015-2018
Behavior Specialist at Ryther Child Center (Seattle, WA)
2015-2016
Tutor in mathematics, reading, and writing at Varsity Tutors (Seattle, WA)
2015
Tutor in mathematics, reading, and writing at C2 Education (Seattle, WA)

Invited Talks

Guest Lectures

2022 Autumn,
2022 Spring
Guest lecture: Expository Writing: Tips from Psychology of Reading and Discourse Comprehension
Educational Psychology 1281: Introduction to Educational Psychology
Instructor: Dr. Martin van Boekel
2019 Autumn
Guest lecture: Problem Solving and Analogy (slides by Sashank Varma)
Educational Psychology 3301: Introduction to Educational Psychology
Instructor: Dr. Martin van Boekel
2019 Autumn
Guest lecture: Discussion: Mental Models (Vosniadou, 2002)
Educational Psychology 3301: Introduction to Educational Psychology
Instructor: Dr. Martin van Boekel

Service

Reviewership

European Journal of Psychology of Education
Educational Psychology Review
Scientific Studies of Reading
International Conference of the Learning Sciences
Council of Graduate Students Grant Review Committee

Mentorship

2022-2023
Diversity in Psychology Support Program (DIPS)
2021—2023
Mentor at Next-Gen Psych Scholars Program (NPSP)
2017
Mentor at King Schools (Seattle, WA), project on epistemic injustice against international students

Recognition

2023
Society for Text & Discourse Travel Award (Amount: $500)

Affiliations

Society for Text and Discourse
American Education Research Association
Cognitive Science Society