Arthur C. Graesser

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Arthur C. Graesser
Born1950 (age 7273)
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Alma mater University of California, San Diego (PhD)
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Arthur C. Graesser (born 1950) is a professor of psychology and intelligent systems at the University of Memphis [1] [2] and is an honorary research fellow in education at the University of Oxford. [3]

He has served as the editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology [4] and Discourse Processes, has been president of four scientific societies, and has published over 600 scientific articles and three books, garnering over 30,000 citations. [5]

He is widely known for his role in the development of a range of intelligent tutoring systems, including the AutoTutor platform, and Operation ARA, co-developed with Diane F. Halpern and distributed by Pearson Education. [6] He also co-led the development of Coh-Metrix computational tool that produces linguistic, coherence, and discourse measures on texts.

In 2018, Graesser was awarded the Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education. [7] Graesser has also been awarded the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for Text and Discourse [8] and the Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training Award from the American Psychological Association. [9] Graesser has also been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society for Artificial Intelligence in Education, one of only two such awards bestowed as of 2023 [10] .

Graesser received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, San Diego. He has graduated 32 doctoral students. [11]

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