College of Education

Karen Zabrucky, Ph.D.

Regents Professor and Program Coordinator
Phone: 404-413-8339
Email: zabrucky@gsu.edu 

Department of Educational Psychology & Special Education
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3979
Atlanta, GA 30302-3979

Education
Ph.D., University of Toledo

Major Areas of Interest
I teach courses in developmental and educational psychology at the undergraduate level and educational psychology, cognitive psychology, and metacognition at the graduate level. My research interests are in the areas of discourse comprehension and memory and metacomprehension across the life-span. Research projects have been funded from internal grants as well as grants from the Michigan Department of Education, the International Reading Association (Elva Knight Research Grant), and the National Institute on Aging (FIRST AWARD).

Representative Publications:

Lin, L., Zabrucky, K. M., & Moore, D. (2002). Effects of text difficulty and adults' age on relative calibration of comprehension. American Journal of Psychology,15(2),187-198.

Lin, L., Moore, D., & Zabrucky, K. M. (2001). An assessment of students' calibration of comprehension and calibration of performance using multiple measures. Reading Psychology,2, 111-128.

Lin, Moore, D., & Zabrucky, K. M. (2000). Metacomprehension knowledge and comprehension of expository and narrative texts among younger and older adults. Educational Gerontology,6, 737-749.

Zabrucky, K. M., & Moore, D. (1999). Influence of text genre on adults' monitoring of understanding and recall. Educational Gerontology,5, 691-710.

Lin, L., & Zabrucky, K. M. (1998). Calibration of comprehension: Research and implications for education and instruction. Contemporary Educational Psychology,3, 345-391.