Melissa Duffy is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of South Carolina. She received her Ph.D. from McGill University in Educational Psychology. Her research focuses on the intersection between motivation, emotion, and cognition in learning and performance across a variety of educational environments. She studies factors such as achievement motivation, learner beliefs, academic resilience, emotion regulation and self-regulated learning. In her research, she has examined the impact of achievement goals on learning within intelligent tutoring systems; relations between student beliefs and learning strategies, and how negative and positive emotions relate to performance during simulation training. Dr. Duffy’s research often involves mixed methods and the use of learning technologies to support and measure learning.
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