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Faculty Research Interests
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| Bazerman, Charles | Professor | Writing; Teaching of writing; English education; Literacy; Language arts; Writing across the curriculum; Higher education writing; Composition |
| Bianchini, Julie | Associate Professor | Science education; Teacher education and professional development; Educational equity |
| Blau, Sheridan | Professor | Dropouts; Language arts education; ESL; Reading education; Multicultural education; Professional education; Social science education; Teacher education; Technology education; Education equity; Educational assessment; Bilingual education; Primary education; Elementary education; Middle school education; Minority education; Public education; Secondary education |
| Block, Jim | Professor | School improvement; Instructional leadership; Organizational motivation |
| Brenner, Mary | Professor | Mathematics education; Multicultural education; Educational equity; After school, out of school education; Teaching methods; International education; Comparative education; School community relations |
| Brown, Michael | Professor | African-American career development; Cultural factors underlying psychological processes and measurement; Self-efficacy |
| Casas, J. Manuel | Professor | Racial/ethnic minority groups; Cross-cultural counseling; Family dynamics of diverse populations |
| Conley, Sharon | Professor | Educational administration; School organization |
| Conoley, Collie | Professor | Family dynamics of diverse populations; Psychosocial interventions for families; School-family partnerships and parent education; Cross-cultural counseling; Cultural influences on development; Effects of racism and classism on teaching and learning; Multicultural counseling process and outcome; Multicultural counseling training and supervision; Clinical issues for children; Counseling processes; Counselor competence with marginalized clients; Effective training and supervision of counselors and therapists; Prescriptive therapy--matching treatment to client; Victims of interpersonal teasing; Aggression and youth violence |
| Conoley, Jane Close | Professor | Consultation; Developmental psychopathology; Family school relations; School improvement; School violence |
| Cook-Gumperz, Jenny | Professor | Educational sociolinguistics; literacy as social process; socialization theory; language socialization, acquisition of communicative competence and gender; qualitative methods in Education; |
| Copeland, Willis | Professor | Teacher cognition; Teacher education; Application of technology to educational purposes |
| Cosden, Merith | Professor | My focus is on clinical interventions, including treatment of college students with drug/alcohol problems; court-based diversion programs for adults with drug/alcohol and mental health problems; special needs of clients with learning disabilities; and prevention of family violence.; ; ; ; |
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| Dixon, Carol | Senior Lecturer w/ Security of Employment | Literacy; Family literacy; Classroom interaction |
| Dowdy, Erin | Assistant Professor | Behavioral assessment and classification particularly early identification of child behavior problems; School-based mental health; Pediatric psychology; diversity training and culturally competent treatment |
| Duran, Richard | Professor | ESL; Reading education; Educational measurement; BilingualismEducational assessment; Design and evaluation of literacy interventions for at-risk studentsEducational testing; Learning; Bilingual education; Secondary education; Urban education; Educational technology; Cognitive psychology: cognition, intelligence, memory; Psychosocial development |
| Faverty, Patrick | Academic Coordinator | Educational leadership; School reform; The brain & learning. |
| Felix, Erika | Assistant Researcher | violence prevention; bullying; youth; school based interventions; disaster mental health; trauma; PTSD; community violence |
| Furlong, Michael | Professor | School violence and safety (prevention); Bullying assessment and prevention; Anger assessment; Strength-based assessment; Child/adolescent psychological well-being |
| Gerber, Michael | Professor | Risk in reading acquisition for young English learners; Cognitive factors/individual differences in teaching/learning; Policy analysis research in special education; Media-assisted, problem-based learning; Learning disabilities/behavior disorders |
| Glasman, Naftaly | Professor | Classical managerial science and leaders as generalists; Accountability related leadership as an expertise; High stakes school accountability; Evaluation, politics and communication: Areas of expertise in leadership related to high stakes school accountability |
| Green, Judith | Professor | Learning within and across disciplines; Learning and technology; Classroom research; Literacy across disciplines; Learning in community; Research methods--qualitative, ethnographic; Cross case research; Action research; Early childhood education; Knowledge construction in classrooms |
| Harlow, Danielle | Assistant Professor | Science education; Pedagogical and content preparation of teachers; Physics education research; Classroom science discourse |
| Ho, Hsiu-Zu | Professor | Comparative education; Mathematics education; Multicultural education; Educational psychology; Early childhood education; Child development |
| Hough, Sarah | Assistant Researcher | |
| Hudley, Cynthia | Professor | Educational psychology; Minority education; Urban education; Child development; Adolescent development; Social development; Childhood aggression; Youth violence; Achievement motivation; Middle school; College prep; Secondary data analysis |
| Israel, Tania | Associate Professor | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT); Gender; Counseling/Psychotherapy; Mental health services |
| Jacobs, Sarah | Academic Coordinator | |
| Jimerson, Shane | Professor | Early intervention and prevention behavior and academic; School violence and safety; Dropouts; Reading edcuation; Safety education; Educational psychology; Educational measurement; Elementary education; Behavior sciences: abnormal, developmental, social development |
| Johnson, Susan | Academic Coordinator | Teacher education; Conceptual models; Nature of science ; Science math initiatives |
| K - N | ||
| Kia-Keating, Brett | Assistant Researcher | Child and adolescent development; Developmental psychopathology; Risk and protective factors; Resilience; Youth aggression and violence, prevention and intervention |
| Kia-Keating, Maryam | Assistant Professor | Developmental psychopathology; Empirically support treatments; Risk and protective factors; Resilience; Culture and acculturation; Immigrant and refugee youth; Exposure to violence and trauma; Post-Taumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); Stress and coping; School-based mental health programs; Community participatory research; School, family, and community partnerships |
| Koegel, Lynn Kern | Researcher | |
| Koegel, Robert | Professor | Autism; Behavior management; Severe behavior problems; Stress in families with children with severe disabilities; Interdisciplinary human development |
| Kok, Onno (Ron) | Academic Coordinator | |
| Kyratzis, Amy | Associate Professor | language development; bilingual language development; language socialization; socialization of gender and bilingual practices in children’s peer interactions; children’s narrative and emergent literacy |
| Lager, Carl | Assistant Professor | Mathematics education; Comprehensibility of mathematics instruction, curricula, and assessment; Large-scale mathematical assessment development; Preparation of pre-service English language learner (ELL) mathematics teachers; Professional development of in-service ELL mathematics teachers |
| Lee, Jin Sook | Assistant Professor | Bilingualism; Heritage language maintenance; ESL; Second/foreign language acquisition and education; Multicultural education; ; ; |
| Lippincott, Ann | Academic Coordinator | Professional development |
| Marin, Patricia | Assistant Researcher | Higher education policy; Educational access and equity for underrepresented students; Diversity; Affirmative action; Qualitative research methods |
| Morgan, Melissa | Assistant Professor | Resilience; Cross-cultural issues; Immigration experiences; Social justice; Subjective well-being |
| Morrison, Gale | Professor | Social and educational development of at-risk and mildly handicapped children in school and family settings; Staff development/personnel training; Consultation; Reform of support services in the schools |
| Nyborg, Vanessa | Assistant Researcher | Effects of racism on African American youth and communities; Masculinity; aggression and violence among youth; school-based mental health serrvices; role of psychology in public policy |
| Nylund-Gibson, Karen | Assistant Professor | |
| O - Z | ||
| Okamoto, Yukari | Associate Professor | Cognitive development; Cognitive psychology; Cross-national, cross-cultural comparisons of teaching and learning outcomes; Development of numerical, scientific and spatial understandings; Early childhood education; Mathematical cognition; Problem solving; Promoting female participation in mathematics, science and technology; Theories of the mind |
| Quirk, Matthew | Assistant Professor | Reading assessment; Reading intervention; Academic motivation; Reading engagement,; Teacher/student relationships; Closing the achievement gap in urban classrooms |
| Raley, Jason | Lecturer w/ Potential Security of Employment | Teacher edcuation; Educational philosophy; Educational equity; Learning; Anthropology; Social interaction; Social relations |
| Romo, Laura | Associate Professor | Adolescent development; Concept acquisition; Informal science/health education; Mother-adolescent communication; Youth and sexuality; Adolescent pregnancy prevention |
| Ross, Elissa | Academic Coordinator | |
| Rumberger, Russ | Professor | School dropouts; Student mobility; Education policy, equity; English learners; Achievement gap; Segregation; Secondary data analysis; Survey research design; Multilevel modeling |
| Sharkey, Jill | Academic Coordinator | Antisocial Behavior, Juvenile Delinquency, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Developmental Psychopathology, Risk and Resilience, School Violence, Student Engagement, Assessment and Measurement |
| Singer, George H. S. | Professor | Children and youth with severe disabilities and their families; Behavioral parent training; Psychosocial interventions for families; History and disability; Social policy and families; Parent self-help and advocacy; Family-school relations; Distance learning |
| Singer, Joanne | Academic Coordinator | |
| Sloan, Tine | Academic Coordinator | Teacher knowledge and practice in a context of reform; Assessment and evaluation of teaching practice; Integrating assessment of students’ developing cognitions with instructional practice; Socio-cultural influences of cognitive development; Social and cognitive developmental variables influencing children’s understandings in mathematics |
| Smith, Steven | Assistant Professor | Abnormal psychology; Clinical psychology; Psychotherapy; Cognition; Intelligence; Perception; Neurospychology; Psychometrics; Assessment; Learning disability; Personality; Juvenile delinquency |
| Wang, Mian | Assistant Professor | child and family outcomes of early childhood services; atypical child development; family-professional partnership; positive behavioral support in cultural context; disability policy |
| Weissglass, Julian | Professor | Mathematics education; Multicultural education; Teacher education; Values education; Educational equity; School/community relations |
| Yeager, Elizabeth | Assistant Researcher | |
| Yun, John | Assistant Professor | Educational policy; Economic and quantitative methodologies; Educational equity; Effects of funding, poverty and opportunity on educational outcomes; Mixed methods approaches; Patterns of school segregation; High Stakes Testing; Using data ins chools to improve teaching and learning; Educational evaluation; Internal evaluation; School autonomy |
| Zetzer, Heidi | Academic Coordinator | Family Violence; Culturally competent and empirically-based treatment; Multicultural organizational development; Multicultural supervision |
| Zwee (test user), Zeta | Professor | |
| Zwick, Rebecca | Professor | Educational measurement; Psychometrics; Educational assessment; Assessment literacy; Educational testing: validity, policy, fairness; Admissions testing; Educational statistics/data analysis; Educational research methods; Higher education admissions policy |