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Dr. Gutica studied how emotion influences learning in the context of tutoring systems. She designed an educational game, Heroes of Math Island, for students in Grades 5 to 7, and analyzed the learners' emotional states as they interacted with it. Her findings will benefit researchers and designers in the field of advanced learning technologies.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD) - graduated in 2014