M. Anne Britt, Ph.D.Phone: (815)753-7082
Fax: (815)753-8088
britt@niu.edu
Office: 363 Psychology
B.A. University of Dayton, 1983
M.A. University of Pittsburgh, 1987
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1991
Argument comprehension and production. Technology and literacy education. Integration of semantic information across multiple documents. Learning and reasoning from multiple documents.
Bråten, I., Strømsø, H.I., & Britt, M.A. (under review). Trust Matters: Examining the Role of Source Evaluation in Students’ Construction of Meaning Within and Across Multiple Texts.
Durik, A.M., Britt, M.A., Reynolds, R., & Storey, J.K. (Accepted for publication). The Effects of Hedges in Persuasive Arguments: A Nuanced Analysis of Language. Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
Larson, A.A., Britt, M. A., & Kurby, C. (Accepted for publication). Improving students’ evaluation of informal arguments. Journal of Experimental Education.
Britt, M. A., Kurby, C. A., Dandotkar, S., & Wolfe, C.R. (2008). I Agreed with What? Memory for Simple Argument Claims. Discourse Processes, 45(1), 52-84.
Wolfe, C.R. & Britt, M.A. (2008). The Locus of the Myside Bias in Written Argumentation. Thinking and Reasoning, 14(1), 1–27.
Magliano, J.P., Skowronski, J., Britt, M.A, Guss, D., & Forsythe, C. (2008). What Do You Want? How Perceivers Use Cues to Make Goal Inferences About Others. Cognition, 106, 594–632.
Britt, M.A., Wiemer-Hasting, P., Larson, A., & Perfetti, C.A. (In Press). Automated feedback on source citation in essay writing. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.
Larson, M., Britt, M.A., & Larson, A. (In Press). Disfluencies in comprehending argumentative texts. Reading Psychology.
Britt, M.A., & Gabrys, G. (2004). Collecting responses through Web page drag and drop. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36(1), 52-68. Appendix for Collecting Responses through Web Page Drag and Drop
Sagarin, B. J., Britt, M. A., Wood, S., Heider, J., & Lynch, J. (2003). Bartering Our Attention: The Distraction and Persuasion Effects of On-Line Advertisements. Cognitive Technology, 8(3).
Britt, M.A. & Larson, A. (2003). Construction of argument representations during on-line reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 48(4), 749-810.
Britt, M.A., & Aglinski, C. (2002). Improving student’s ability to use source information. Cognition and Instruction, 20(40), 485-522.
Acquiring Research Investigative and Evaluative Skills (ARIES) for Scientific Inquiry R305B070349 (2007-2011). U.S. Department of Education. PI: Keith Millis. Co-PI’s: M. Anne Britt, Katja Wiemer-Hastings, and Joe Magliano.
Creating a Usable Environment to Teach Argument Comprehension and Production Skills R305H050133 (2005-2008). U.S. Department of Education. PI: M. Anne Britt. Co-PI’s Peter Wiemer-Hastings, Christopher R. Wolfe.
Improving students comprehension and construction of arguments R305H020039 (2002-2005). U.S. Department of Education. PI: M. Anne Britt. Co-PI’s Kimberly Lawler-Sagarin, Christopher R. Wolfe.