Teaching/Research Interest Areas
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| Name | Areas of Research Interest | Areas of Teaching Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Ariel M. Aloe | Research synthesis (meta-analysis) and teacher qualifications | Quantitative methods |
| Laura M. Anderson |
School-linked healthy weight promotion; Prevention of obesity-related mental & physical illness Parental involvement in healthy weight promotion programs Mind-body connectedness: mental health & overweight Bariatric surgery patient outcomes: The influence of mental health |
School psychology practicum supervision Perspectives in school psychology Pediatric school psychology Social psychology & applications for practitioners |
| David F. Burganowski | Counseling, School and Educational Psychology | Rehabilitation Counseling |
| Catherine P. Cook-Cottone |
Psychosocial Disorders Eating Disorder Yoga and Mindfullness Prevention and Treatment |
Counseling with Children and Adolescents Mindfulness Eating Disorders Reading Diagnostics and Early Childhood Assessment |
| Janice L. DeLucia-Waack |
groups - change agents and therapeutic factors eating disorders and body image career development in schools |
School Counseling Groups |
| Abiola Dipeolu | Counseling, School and Educational Psychology | Counseling, School and Educational Psychology |
| Gregory Fabiano |
ADHD assessments and interventions parenting programs, especially for fathers, teen drivers school-based interventions |
behavior therapy |
| Wendy Guyker | ||
| Timothy P. Janikowski |
Good work in counseling, counselor competencies, ethics, engagement Disability and substance abuse Efficacy and outcome informed counseling |
Counseling theory Internship/counseling practice Tests and Measurement |
| Jenifer C. Lawrence | Grief and loss | Grief and loss |
| Gloria K. Lee |
Psychosocial adjustment of people with disabilities (chronic pain, autism spectrum disorders) Psychosocial adjustment of caregivers of people with disabilities (chronic pain, autism spectrum disorders) Vocational issues and profiles of adolescents with autism spectrum disorders |
Counseling techniques Vocational assessment and placement Fieldwork and practicum |
| Scott T. Meier |
Outcome Assessment Program Evaluation Counseling and Psychotherapy Occupational Stress |
Psychological Testing Program Evaluation Counseling and Psychotherapy |
| LeAdelle Phelps |
Health-related disorders in children and adolescents Pediatric psychopharmacology |
Personality assessment Cognitive assessment |
| Amy L. Reynolds |
Multicultural training of psychologists and counselors Multicultural competence of psychologists, counselors, and student affairs professionals Helping skills of student affairs professionals Effects of race-related stress on college students of color |
Multicultural counseling Counseling skills Clinical Supervision Feminist therapy |
| Michele E. Shanahan | Counseling, School and Educational Psychology | Counseling, School and Educational Psychology |
| Sandro M. Sodano |
Interpersonal Aspects of Personality Vocational Assessment and Development |
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology |
| Luis Antonio Tosado II | ||
| Martin A. Volker | Assessment, Behavioral Interventions, Quantitative Methods, and Psychometrics | Assessment, Behavioral Interventions, Quantitative Methods, and Psychometrics |
| Rebecca Vujnovic |
ADHD Interventions Behavioral Consultation Treatment Integrity |
Behavior Therapy Process of Consultation |
| Name | Areas of Research Interest | Areas of Teaching Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Finn |
School organization and class size Student engagement, disengagement, and dropping out Students at risk Using quantitative methods to study policy issues. |
Statistics and quantitative methods Educational policy issues such as dropout prevention |
| Jaekyung Lee |
education accountability policy and high-stakes testing P-16 education pathways and school interventions educational equity and achievement gaps international and comparative education |
quantitative research methods--hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) educational assessment educational policy analysis international and comparative education |
| Jeremy Finn |
School organization and class size Student engagement, disengagement, and dropping out Students at risk Using quantitative methods to study policy issues. |
Statistics and quantitative methods Educational policy issues such as dropout prevention |
| Jaekyung Lee |
education accountability policy and high-stakes testing P-16 education pathways and school interventions educational equity and achievement gaps international and comparative education |
quantitative research methods--hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) educational assessment educational policy analysis international and comparative education |
| Name | Areas of Research Interest | Areas of Teaching Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Amanda Nickerson |
Violence and bullying prevention and intervention Parent and peer relationships Strength-based assessment and intervention Assessment and treatment of emotional and behavioral disorders |
| Name | Areas of Research Interest | Areas of Teaching Interest |
|---|---|---|
| William Barba | Educational Leadership and Policy | Educational Leadership and Policy |
| Julia Colyar | Educational Leadership and Policy | Educational Leadership and Policy |
| Nathan Daun-Barnett |
College Access and Choice in US Higher Education Public Policy in Higher Education |
Financing Higher Education Organizations and Governance in Higher Education |
| Gregory Dimitriadis |
Qualitative Methods Urban Education Educational Policy Popular Culture |
Sociological Bases of Education Qualitative Research Methods Sociology of School Knowledge |
| Stephen L. Jacobson | Effective principal leadership in challenging, high needs schools, the reform of school leadership preparation and practice, and teacher compensation and labor market behavior | Educational leadership, administration and management, and school business and human resource administration in education |
| Namsook Kim | ||
| Jill P. Koyama |
the productive social assemblage of policy the controversies of globalizing educational policy the politics and complexities of language policy and immigrant-refugee education |
social policy; urban education; educational leadership; social and cultural theory; ethnography |
| Raechele Pope | ||
| Tom Ramming | ||
| Margaret Sallee |
Faculty work Graduate student socialization Work/life balance Gender and masculinities |
The College Professoriate Organization and Governance |
| Corrie Stone-Johnson |
Educational change Educational leadership Teacher cultures Micropolitics |
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| Lois Weis |
| Name | Areas of Research Interest | Areas of Teaching Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Janina Brutt-Griffler | ||
| Janina Brutt-Griffler |
| Name | Areas of Research Interest | Areas of Teaching Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Vladimir Ageyev | Learning and Instruction | Learning and Instruction |
| Fenice B. Boyd |
Adolescents' Response to Young Adult Literature Multicultural Literature Multiliteracies Diversity Topics, Writ Large |
Young Adult Literature; Multicultural Literature ELA Common Core State Standards Content Area Literacy Politics of Literacy, Teaching and Teacher Education |
| Maureen Boyd |
Classroom talk and Dialogic inquiry Patterns of teacher questioning Student talk as markers of reasoning and engagement Literacy learning in literature-based classrooms |
LAI 550 Literacy Acquisition and Instruction LAI 565 Literature for Children and Young People LAI 625: Discourse Analysis Doctoral Seminar: Talk about literature in the classroom |
| David Bruce |
Video Composition New Literacies and Teacher Education |
English Education Media Studies |
| Ming Ming Chiu |
Classroom processes International comparisons of students Statistics |
Mathematics education |
| Alexandra E. Dimick | ||
| Stephen Dunnett | Learning and Instruction | Learning and Instruction |
| Ashlee A. Ebert |
Early Reading Development of children and adults Spelling Development Reciprocal Relationship between Word Recognition and Spelling Development Reading Disabilities |
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| Elisabeth Etopio | Early Childhood Music Learning | |
| Stephen Goss | ||
| H. Emily Hayden, PhD |
Adaptive Expertise in Literacy Teaching Reflective Practices in Teaching Vocabulary and academic language development Agency |
Literacy Education |
| James Hoot | Learning and Instruction | Learning and Instruction |
| Carol Hosenfeld | ||
| Erin Kearney |
Cultural Dimensions of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Language Teacher Development and Education Language Play and Learner Identity Very Early Foreign Language Learning |
Culture and Language Education Approaches to the Teaching of Foreign Languages Discourse Analysis |
| Xiufeng Liu | Science assessment, applications of Rasch measurement, opportunity-to-learn, civic scientific literacy | Science assessment, science instruction, science and the public |
| Lilliam Malave | Learning and Instruction | Learning and Instruction |
| Mary McVee |
Positioning theory and social mediation Literacy, technology and multimodality Narrative and discourse analysis Cultural diversity and literacy instruction |
Language literacy and culture Literacy and digital technologies Qualitative, narrative, and discourse research methods |
| Suzanne Miller |
English Education Digital Composing, New Literacies Teacher Learning |
English Education Qualitative Research New Literacies, Multimodal Composing |
| Deborah Moore-Russo |
1. Multimodal communication, visualization, and reasoning related to geometric and spatial concepts, including key topics in the mathematics curriculum (e.g., slope) 2. Use of tools and technology to enhance the meaning-making process in postsecondary STEM education 3. Reflection in teaching and the disciplinary obligation (a teacher's sense of commitment to represent the discipline responsibly that can prompt instructional modifications) |
1. Exploration of 2-dimensional concepts common to the secondary curriculum in a 3-dimensional environment 2. Promotion of teachers as members of a professional community of reflective practitioners 3. Teaching and learning of geometry and calculus 4. Use of technology in mathematics education |
| Sharon L. Raimondi | Special Education and Technology | Special Education |
| Anastasia Riazantseva |
Second Language Acquisition Academic Literacy Language Assessment |
Second Language Learning and Assessment |
| Sarah A. Robert |
Politics and Policies of Education Reform Teachers' Work and Teachers' Knowledge Gender Globalization and Neoliberalism |
Gender and Education Education Politics, Policies, and Reform in Comparative/International Perspective Social Studies Teaching and Curriculum Qualitative Methodologies |
| Kelly Roy |
Preschool Outdoor Play and Learning Environments Coaching |
Early Childhood Education Child Development |
| Maria Runfola | Learning and Instruction | Learning and Instruction |
| Lynn Ellen Shanahan | Learning and Instruction | Learning and Instruction |
| Elizabeth Tynan |
Literacy Teacher Education Struggling Readers Literacy Assessment and Instruction |
Literacy Teacher Education - all facets Struggling Readers Literacy Assessment and Instruction |
| Noemi Waight | Learning and Instruction | Learning and Instruction |
| X. Christine Wang |
Technology and Early Learning & Development Digital Literacies and Science Inquiry Early Education in International Contexts |
Child Development and Learning ICT in Early Education Methods of Child Study Qualitative Research Methods in Education |
| Lynne Yang | Learning and Instruction | Learning and Instruction |
| Randy Yerrick |
Equity and Diversity Science Education Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Discourse Analysis and Autoethnography |
Qualitative Research Technology Implementation |
| Name | Areas of Research Interest | Areas of Teaching Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Brenda L. Battleson |
Social Network Analysis Information Organization Knowledge Management Bibliometrics |
Information Organization / Knowledge Management Research Methods Collection Development Management |
| Silvia M. Lloyd |
Collaborative practices of teachers and librarians around inquiry-based instruction Organizational change in schools and libraries Transformational leadership in school libraries Culturally-responsive teaching and learning |
Curriculum and instruction Pedagogy Multicultural children's literature Student Teaching Practicum |
| Valerie M. Nesset | Information-seeking behavior, information literacy, knowledge organization | Foundations of library and information studies, intellectual freedom, knowledge organization |
| Anne Marie Perrault |
Health and Media Literacy for Youth Public and School Library Services to Youth with Disabilities Information Seeking Behaviors of Educators |
Young Adult Literature and Services Information and Commuication Technologies in Education School Library Management |
| Lorna Peterson | Library and Information Studies | Library and Information Studies |
| Dagobert Soergel | Thesauri | Classification (taxonomy and ontologies) |
| Ying Sun |
Data Mining Machine Learning Information retrieval Formal system evaluation |
information technologies Information retrieval Database systems |
| Amy VanScoy |
Reference and Information Services Professional Education for Librarianship Qualitative Research Methods |
Reference Sources and Services User Education Academic and Research Libraries |
| Jianqiang Wang | information retrieval under uncertainty, multilingual information access, e-discovery |
Systems analysis and design Database technology Informamationa retrieval |
| Larry Nash White |
Organizational Intelligence Organizational Performance Assessment Strategic Information use by Organizational Leaders Analytics Use |
Public Libraries Library / Information Service Organization management and administration Financial Management of Libraries Knowledge management |
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