[2] Her award citation emphasizes how Chi challenged basic assumptions about the human mind and developed new approaches that have shaped a generation of cognitive and learning scientists.
Chi completed a post doctoral fellowship at the Learning Research and Development Center of the University of Pittsburgh (1975–1977), supervised by Robert Glaser.
[15] Chi and VanLehn have a son, Reid Van Lehn, who is a member of the Faculty in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
[18] Catherine Chase is a cognitive scientist who studies learning of STEM subjects in K-16 students;[19] she is a member of the Faculty of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Her research team has explored numerous factors associated with student learning, including benefits of self-explanations,[23][24] human tutoring,[25][26] and watching videos of student-teacher dialogues.
[32] Chi has co-edited several books including The Nature of Expertise[33] (with Robert Glaser and Marshall Farr), Trends in Memory Development Research (with Larry Nucci),[34] and the Handbook of Applied Cognition (with Francis Durso, Raymond Nickerson, Roger Schvaneveldt, Susan Dumais and Stephen Linsday).