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Eric Poitras
Eric Poitras
is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University. He is also an Associate Professor at the Centre for Learning and Teaching at Dalhousie University and leads the Computer Science Education research cluster. He received his PhD in Educational Psychology and completed his postdoctoral training at McGill University. His main research area includes the role of self-regulatory processes during learning and problem-solving that are specific to certain disciplines, including computing education. More specifically, his research aims to gain insights into the cognitive, metacognitive, affective, and motivational processes that mediate learning, performance, and transfer in the context of introductory programming instruction. To accomplish this goal, he conducts laboratory and classroom studies and collects data to develop models of human-computer interaction; examines program comprehension and generation processes; and evaluates instructional designs to facilitate programming language learning. He is the recipient of the Early Faculty Career Award from the Technology, Instruction, Cognition & Learning special interest group of the American Educational Research Association. His research is funded by the Social Sciences and the Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
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