Katharina Fleig has been working as a researcher and doctoral candidate at the IWM in the Individual Development and Adaptive Learning lab since August 2020. In her dissertation project “Effects of automated feedback on metacognitive regulation and learning performance”, she investigates the automatic diagnosis of learning as well as the adaptive reactions of the system based on it affect its acceptance. Her focus is on the question of how automatically generated feedback influences cognitive and metacognitive learning processes.

Main research topics

• Development of linguistic models for the automatic semantic analysis of open-ended text responses
• Empirical investigation of the effects of adaptive feedback on learning outcomes and learning processe