July 3, 2026
Four of our studies, titled 'Does forgetting impair the forward testing effect? The effects of the timing of interim tests in inductive learning', 'Does Question Generation Enhance Learning with Generative AI?: A Generative Processing and Metacognition Perspective', 'Invisible AI, Changing Learners: The Effects of AI Presence Awareness on Self-Regulated Learning Behaviors and Metacognitive Judgments', 'Think and Reflect Before AI: A Metacognitive Intervention for AI-Supported Category Learning', were presented at the 2nd 2026 conference of the Korean Educational Psychology Association (KEPA).
June 12, 2026
Nakyoung Kwak has won a Master's Student Research Fellowship from the National Research Foundation of Korea. Congratulations!
May 28, 2026
Our new paper, titled 'Effects of interim testing on subsequent learning and cognitive effort in concept and category learning', has been accepted for publication in the Korean Journal of Educational Psychology. Congratulations!
May 11, 2016
A new grant, titled 'The performance-learning paradox: Designing generative learning to overcome metacognitive
illusions in generative AI–supported learning' has been awarded to our lab from the NRF. Congratulations!
March 16, 2026
Our new paper, titled 'The interplay of generative activity and retrieval practice in learning-by-teaching', has been accepted for publication in the Korean Journal of Educational Psychology. Congratulations!
March 10, 2026
Prof. Hee Seung Lee has been awarded the 2025 Outstanding Teaching Award at Yonsei University. Congratulations!
August 4, 2025
Yoohyun Chang has won a Master's Student Research Fellowship from the National Research Foundation of Korea. Congratulations!
July 11, 2025
Three of our studies, titled 'The power of forgetting: Effects of delayed retrieval practice on subsequent learning performance', 'Is testing effective for everyone? Exploring the role of motivation in the forward testing effect', 'Designing failure as the first cue of learning: The pretesting effect in natural category learning', were presented at the 2nd 2025 conference of the Korean Educational Psychology Association (KEPA).
April 17, 2025
Prof. Hee Seung Lee has been awarded the 2024 Outstanding Teaching Award from the Graduate School of Education, Yonsei University. Congratulations!
July 27, 2024
Our research, titled 'How can we increase the use of interleaved study in self-regulated learning?' was presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024).
May 21, 2024
Our new paper, titled 'Evaluating the judgment of learning: its limited impact and the power of retrieval on inductive learning' has been accepted for publication in the Educational Psychology Review. Congratulations!
March 21, 2024
The second edition of 'Education for Tomorrow' by Prof. Lee and her colleagues is now available! Click on the following link for further details.
https://www.aladin.co.kr/shop/wproduct.aspx?ISBN=K882939623&start=pnaver_02
March 10, 2024
Prof. Hee Seung Lee has been awarded the 2023 Outstanding Teaching Award at Yonsei University. Congratulations!
February 20, 2024
Our new paper, titled 'Learning-by-teaching in category learning: The role of retrieval' has been accepted for publication in the Korean Journal of Educational Psychology. Congratulations!
December 18, 2023
Our new paper, titled 'Effect of learning-by-teaching on learners' metacognitive judgments, has been accepted for publication in in the Educational Research for Tomorrow. Congratulations!
October 27, 2023
Yundeok Kim and Juyeon Sung have won the poster award at the 2023 conference of the Korean Educational Psychology Association (KEPA) for their work 'Effective learning strategy selection: use of interleaving strategy' and 'For Korean students, is a mistake a stepping stone to learning or the beginning of frustration?' Congratulations!
August 16, 2023
Our research paper, titled 'Teachers’ metacognitive awareness and use of empirically-supported teaching strategies' has been featured in EduPsych In+Sight. Visit the following link!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RzZhar-4G51w0GpxYSyVSca_UcqsHsrS/view
July 7, 2023
Three of our studies, titled 'Effective learning strategy selection: use of interleaving strategy', 'Why is learning-by-teaching effective? Role of retrieval and generative activities' and 'For Korean students, is a mistake a stepping stone to learning or the beginning of frustration?' were presented at the 2nd 2023 conference of the Korean Educational Psychology Association (KEPA).
April 15, 2023
Our new paper, titled 'When more is not better: Effects of interim testing and feature highlighting in natural category learning' has been accepted for publication in Educational Psychology Review. Congratulations!
March 4, 2023
Our new paper, titled 'Think higher, gain more: The effect of making inference- and memory-based metacognitive judgments on text learning', has been accepted for publication in Metacognition and Learning. Congratulations!
February 27, 2023
Prof. Hee Seung Lee has been awarded the 2022 Outstanding Teaching Award at Yonsei University. Congratulations!
September 7, 2022
Our new paper, titled 'Teachers' metacognitive awareness and use of empirically-supported teaching strategies', has been accepted for publication in the Korean Journal of Educational Psychology. Congratulations!
July 29, 2022
Two of our studies, titled 'Do judgments of learning improve inductive learning?' and 'Does delayed interim testing enhance subsequent learning?', were presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci 2022).
June 30, 2022
A new grant, titled 'Learning-by-teaching in concept and category learning', has been awarded to our lab from the NRF.
June 20, 2022
Our research paper, titled 'Testing for learning: The forward and backward effect of testing', has been featured in the EduPsych In+Sight. Visit the following link!
http://www.kepa.re.kr/bbs/attachment/download.asp?bord052Seq=9544
March 8, 2022
Our new paper, titled 'The Effect of Performance Feedback and Metacognitive Activity on the Evaluation of Learning Strategy Effectiveness in Concept and Category Learning', has been accepted for publication in the Korean Journal of Educational Psychology. Congratulations!
August 13, 2021
Our research, titled 'Do Students Know and Use Effective Strategies to Enhance Inductive Learning?', was presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.
July 29, 2021
Our research, titled 'Do judgments of learning and judgments of inference enhance text learning?', was presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
July 27, 2021
Two of our studies, titled "Effects of interim testing and feature highlighting on natural category learning" and "Appreciating interleaved benefits: The effect of metacognitive activities on the selection of learning strategy", were presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021).
July 19, 2021
Our research, titled "The relationship among the brain knowledge, learning route, and growth mindset in Korean students" was presented at the 32nd International Congress of Psychology (ICP).
May 12, 2021
Yewon Kang has won the Alumni Scholarship from the Department of Education at Yonsei University. Congratulations!
March 11, 2021
Our new paper, titled "Metacognitive awareness and use of effective learning strategies in concept and category learning" has been accepted for publication in the Korean Journal of Educational Psychology. Congratulations!
July 3, 2020
Our research, titled "Learning Vietnamese tones: The effect of study schedule and instruction", was presented at the conference of the Korean Educational Psychology Association (KEPA).
June 24, 2020
A new research grant has been awarded to our lab from Yonsei University. The project title is "Metacognitive awareness and use of effective learning strategies of Korean Undergraduates in concept and category learning."
May 4, 2020
Our new paper, "Exploring the Relationship among the Brain Knowledge, Learning pathway, Certainty of Knowledge, and Growth Mindset in Korean Undergraduates", has been accepted for publication in the Educational Research for Tomorrow. Congratulations!
May 3, 2020
Our new paper, "The Effect of Study Schedule and Study Strategies on Delayed Memory Performance in Reading Material", has been accepted for publication in the Educational Research for Tomorrow. Congratulations!
April 2, 2020
Our new paper, 'Why they chose what they chose: Exploring effects of test performance and metacognitive judgments on learners’ selection of interleaving schedule', has been accepted for publication in the Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology. Congratulations!
Jan 10, 2020
Our new paper, 'Knowing is not half the battle: The role of actual test experience in the forward testing effect', has been accepted for publication in Educational Psychology Review. Congratulations!
Oct 7, 2019
Prof. Lee and her colleagues' new paper, titled 'Spatiotemporal analysis of event-related fMRI to reveal cognitive states', has been accepted for publication in the Human Brain Mapping. Congratulations!
August 8, 2019
Hyorim Ha has won a student poster award at the 2019 Annual Convention of American Psychological Association in Chicago, United States, for her work, 'The effects of interim tests on subsequent study time allocation.' Congratulations!
June 29, 2019
Two of our studies, titled 'Success leads students toward the selection of a more effective study schedule' and 'When and how do we inform students of a test format?: The role of actual test experience in inductive learning', were presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Korean Educational Research Association.
May 28, 2019
Our new paper, titled 'Effect of interim testing on learners' metacognitive judgments, study time, and learning performance in concept and category learning', has been accepted for publication in the Korean Journal of Educational Psychology. Congratulations!
March 23, 2019
Our research, titled 'The effect of testing on metacognitive judgments, study time, and learning performance in concept and category learning', was presented at the conference of the Korean Educational Psychology Association (KEPA).
March 6, 2019
Prof. Lee and her colleagues' new book 'Education for Tomorrow' has been published. Visit the following Link for more information.
https://book.naver.com/bookdb/book_detail.nhn?bid=14629791
December 4, 2018
Our new paper, titled 'Metacognitive judgments of prior material facilitate the learning of new material: The forward effect of metacognitive judgments in inductive learning', has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Educational Psychology. Congratulations!
September 10, 2018
Our new paper, titled 'Metacognitive Awareness, Preference, and Use of Effective Learning Strategies in Korean Undergraduates', has been accepted for publication in The Korean Journal of Educational Psychology. Congratulations!
June 25, 2018
Hyorim Ha has won 2018 graduate student fellowship from the Korea Student Aid Foundation (KOSAF). Congratulations!
June 23, 2018
Our research, titled 'Metacognitive judgments for learning: The effect of metacognitive judgments in category learning', was presented at the 3rd conference of 2018, hold by the Korean Educational Psychology Association (KEPA).
June 19, 2018
Our research paper, titled 'Testing prepares students to learn better: The forward effect of testing in category learning', has been featured in the Particulary Exciting Experiments in Psychology (PeePs). Visit the following link and check out the commentary by Prof. Lee!
May 23, 2018
Dahwi Ahn has won the 2018 Research Scholarship by the Graduate School of Yonsei University.
April 14, 2018
Three of our new research projects, titled 1) Does testing change the way students use their study time?, 2) Initial learning experience affects learners’ selection of subsequent study schedule, and 3) Examining the pre-test and interim-test effect in inductive learning, have been accepted for poster presentation at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2018).
March 15, 2018
Prof. Hee Seung Lee has been awarded the 2017 Outstanding Teaching Award at Yonsei University. Congratulations!
December 18, 2017
Our paper, titled 'Conceptual and procedural distinctions between fractions and decimals: A cross-national comparison', has been featured in the Yonsei University Research Archives.
Visit the following link. https://bit.ly/2YUtEhB
December 20, 2017
Our new paper titled 'Testing for learning: The forward and backward effect of testing' has been accepted for publication in the Korean Journal of Educational Psychology.
October 30, 2017
Our new paper titled 'The relationship among grit, optimism and affective-cognitive responses in the repeated failure situation' has been accepted for publication in the Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology.
April 29, 2017
A new grant titled 'Improving metacognition and study strategies using retrieval failure', has been awarded to our lab from the NRF.
April 28, 2017
A new grant titled 'Effects of retrieval failure on subsequent learning in concept and category learning' has been awarded to our lab from the Yonsei University Future-leading Research Initiative.
April 21, 2017
Our new paper titled 'Testing prepares students to learn better: The forward effect of testing in category learning' has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Educational Psychology.