Arthur C. Graesser

{{Short description|American psychologist (born 1950)}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Arthur C. Graesser

| nationality = American

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1950}}

| field = {{ubl|Cognitive psychology|Educational psychology|Educational data mining}}

| work_institutions = {{ubl|University of Memphis|University of Oxford}}

| alma_mater = University of California, San Diego (PhD)

}}

Arthur C. Graesser (born 1950) is a professor of psychology and intelligent systems at the University of Memphis{{cite web | title = IIS webpage | year = 2016 | url = http://www.memphis.edu/iis/people/faculty_affiliates/agraesser.php | access-date = 2016-01-07 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094152/http://www.memphis.edu/iis/people/faculty_affiliates/agraesser.php | archive-date = 2016-03-04 | url-status = dead }}{{cite web | title = Bloomberg Business Executive Profile | website = Bloomberg News | year = 2016 | url = https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=111404076&privcapId=107467503&previousCapId=107467503&previousTitle=Time%20To%20Know,%20Inc. | access-date = 2016-01-07}} and is an honorary research fellow in education at the University of Oxford.{{cite web

|title=OUCEA webpage

|year=2016

|url=http://oucea.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/directory/professor-arthur-graesser/

|access-date=2016-01-07

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150408062935/http://oucea.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/directory/professor-arthur-graesser/

|archive-date=2015-04-08

}}

He has served as the editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology{{cite journal

|title = Inaugural editorial for Journal of Educational Psychology | last1 = Graesser| first1 = Arthur| date = 2009 | journal= Journal of Educational Psychology | volume= 101 |issue= 2 | pages= 259–261 | doi=10.1037/a0014883

|citeseerx = 10.1.1.184.2986 }}

and Discourse Processes, has been president of four scientific societies, and has published over 600 scientific articles and three books, garnering over 30,000 citations.{{cite web | title = Google Scholar A. Graesser | year = 2016 | url = https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SA-2DGsAAAAJ&hl=en | access-date = 2016-01-07}}

He is widely known for his role in the development of a range of intelligent tutoring systems, including the AutoTutor platform, and Operation ARA, co-developed with Diane F. Halpern and distributed by Pearson Education.{{cite web

|title=Operation ARA webpage

|year=2016

|url=http://operationara.com/Faq

|access-date=2016-01-07

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122061158/http://operationara.com/Faq

|archive-date=2016-01-22

}} He also co-led the development of Coh-Metrix computational tool that produces linguistic, coherence, and discourse measures on texts.

In 2018, Graesser was awarded the Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education.{{cite web | title = McGraw Prize Winners | year = 2018 | url = https://www.mcgrawprize.com/winners/ | access-date=2018-05-11}} Graesser has also been awarded the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for Text and Discourse {{cite web | title = ST&D awards webpage | year = 2016 | url = http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/about-2/awards/distinguished-scientific-contribution-award-winners/ | access-date = 2016-01-07}} and the Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training Award from the American Psychological Association.{{cite web | title = APA awards webpage | year = 2016 | url = http://www.apa.org/about/awards/appsyc-edutrain.aspx?tab=3 | access-date = 2016-01-07}} Graesser has also been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society for Artificial Intelligence in Education, one of only two such awards bestowed as of 2023.{{cite web | title = Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Prof. Art Graesser | url = https://iaied.org/news/6W2HD1wfClTVAGGhklrM5F | year = 2021}}

Graesser received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, San Diego. He has graduated 32 doctoral students.{{cite web | title = Arthur Graesser CV | year = 2016 | url = https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-xloTsxGxlGejFWOEFSZlRCbXM/view | access-date = 2016-01-07}}