Left to Right: Karla Schweitzer, Earl Hunt, Anne Thissen-Roe, Ginny Bunch
Missing from Picture: Susan Joslyn, Jim Minstrell
Hanging About Overhead: A Snowy Owl from Woodland Park Zoo sponsored by the Hunt Lab.
Projects
- Assessment in Education. The purpose of this project is to utilize testing sequences developed from facet-based instruction to assist teachers and students prepare for state-wide assessments in Science and Mathematics.
- DIAGNOSER: DIAGNOSER is an educational computer program designed to assess the state of a student's knowledge about specific phenomena in physics, and to do that in such a way as to help make clear to the student the reasoning processes that led them to their conceptualizations.
- Psychological issues related to virtual environments: We are exploring how people's representations of large-scale spaces may be distorted in virtual environments. We are also looking at how well knowledge and training procedures will transfer from virtual environments to real world environments. Typically, we ask people to explore a simple room-sized maze and make judgements about where certain object in the maze are located. We then compare performance in an analogous virtual maze.
The Hunt Lab
Department of Psychology
University of Washington
Box 351525
Seattle, WA 98195-1525
Phone: (206) 543-8995
Fax: (206) 616-4976