{ Learner Performance Analysis }
CPResearch conducts a wide variety of behavioral research to support the development of command performance.
{ Instructional Design }
CPResearch uses a combination of behavioral research and educational program evaluation findings to optimally fit instructional designs to learner need and provider readiness.
{Organizational Implementation}
CPResearch has been involved in educational program evaluation since its founding, investigating ways to conceptualize and measure the adult learning process.
{ Leadership }
Anna T. Cianciolo, Ph.D. – President & Senior Behavioral Scientist
Dr. Cianciolo has spent the past ten years researching the design, development, and evaluation of professional development initiatives. Her work has included developing metrics for assessing a variety of adult learning environments, including online discussion forums and blended learning, exploring the use of digital stories to stimulate professional knowledge sharing and social learning, identifying the faculty development requirements for implementing problem-centered instruction, exploring the training design requirements for developing collaborative performance, and consulting on design teams to produce training solutions that support a variety of performance objectives, including driving safety and military leadership.
Dr. Cianciolo earned her Ph.D. in engineering psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001. Her post-graduate studies included a two-year postdoctoral research position at the Yale University Center for the Study of the Psychology of Abilities, Competency, and Expertise (PACE Center, now located at Tufts University). While at the PACE Center, she studied performance development with a focus on experience-based, or tacit, knowledge and leadership. Dr. Cianciolo worked with a leading researcher in the area of human intelligence and national and international colleagues to explore methods for quantifying, assessing, and facilitating the acquisition of experience-based knowledge.
Dr. Cianciolo is an assistant professor of Medical Education at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, School of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has published her work in books, edited volumes, and journals and has been an invited speaker at multiple conferences. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.