Mark A. McDaniel, PhD

Mark McDaniel is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Director of the Center for Integrative Research on Cognition, Learning, and Education (CIRCLE) at Washington University in St. Louis. McDaniel is known for his work in the application of cognitive psychological principles to education. He has published numerous papers related to cognition and education, including topics such as individual differences in concept representations, discovery learning, mental models, analogical learning, and classroom studies on testing effects. To facilitate dissemination of research literatures pertinent to learning and education, with Peter Brown and Roddy Roediger, he co-authored a book published by Harvard University Press entitled Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (2014).