James W. Pellegrino is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Learning Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and Founding Co-director of UIC’s Learning Sciences Research Institute. He is the former Dean of Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development. Pellegrino is a Fellow of both the American Educational Research Association and the International Society of the Learning Science, a lifetime National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, and a past member of the Board on Testing and Assessment of the National Research Council. In 2007, he was elected to lifetime membership in the National Academy of Education, and in 2016 he was elected to lifetime membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research and development interests focus on thinking and learning and the implications of cognitive research and theory for assessment and instructional practice.

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