Dr. Thompson completed her Ph. D. in Developmental and Cognitive Psychology in 2008 at The Ohio State University. After spending two years as a postdoctoral research associate at Carnegie Mellon University, she became an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma in 2010. While at OU, Dr. Thompson coordinated the Elements of Psychology Program and taught graduate students how to teach for the first time. She joined the Kent State Department of Psychological Sciences and the Science of Learning in Education (SOLE) Center in the Fall semester of 2014. Dr. Thompson is currently an Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology and the Department of Psychological Sciences' Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator. Her primary program of research focuses on how people of all ages learn and transfer their knowledge to new contexts, specifically within the domain of mathematics.
Experience
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2018–2020Associate professor, Kent State University
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2014–2018Assistant professor, Kent State University
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2010–2014Assistant professor, University of Oklahoma
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2008–2010Postdoctoral fellow, Carnegie Mellon University
Grants and Contracts
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2020An Educational Intervention to Combat Whole Number Bias in Risk Perception in an Ambiguous Health Context: COVID-19
- Role:
- PI
- Funding Source:
- U.S. Department of Education
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2019Using TopHat Textbook Resources to Provide Students and Instructors Diagnostic Insights
- Role:
- PI
- Funding Source:
- Top Hat Publishers
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2016Cognitive Support for Learning Fraction Magnitudes
- Role:
- Co-PI
- Funding Source:
- U.S. Department of Education
- Kent, Ohio, U.S.
- Website
- @ClarissaAThomp1
- Article Feed
- cthomp77@kent.edu
- ORCID
- Joined
