Faculty Information
Educational Psychology Faculty
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Joyce Alexander, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Chair: Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology
Teaching Areas: Child Development (P348), Foundations of Child Development (P351), Child Development Seminar (P450), Children's Thinking (P600), Learning, Cognition and Instruction (P506, P251, P465, P525, P530, P540, P545)
Research Interests: Metacognition, Transfer, Motivation and Creativity, Children's Thinking, Children's Interests, Development of Expertise.
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Jonathan Plucker, Ph.D.; Professor
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Program Area Head: Educational Psychology
Teaching Areas: Educational psychology and cognitive science.
Courses taught include: Theoretical Perspectives on Giftedness; Creativity, Talent, Learning and Cognitive Theory in Education; Evaluation Models and Methods; Creativity: Research, Theory, and Instruction; Creativity: Debunking Myths & Enhancing Innovation; Intelligence Theory; College Teaching; Advanced Creativity Seminar.
Research Interests: Creativity and intelligence, school reform, education policy and talent development.
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David Estell, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Teaching Areas: Life Span Development: Birth to Death(P514), Child Development (P515), Social Development(P622) and Brain Research Applied to Educational and Clinical Practice(P624)
Research Interests: The social development of children broadly, with an emphasis on how the social context affects ontongeny of aggressive behavior, peer relations, bullying, and relational aggression
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Anne Stright, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Program Area Head: Human Development
Teaching Areas: Life Span Development (P314), Child Development (P515), Family Processes and Child/Adolescent Development(P625), and Gender Development (P650).
Research Interests: Children's social development; Family influences on children's development; Children's self regulated behavior in classrooms; Child care.
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Emeritus Faculty:
Donald Cunningham, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Beth Greene, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Gary Ingersoll, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Human Development Faculty
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Joyce Alexander, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Chair: Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology
Teaching Areas: Child Development (P348), Foundations of Child Development (P351), Child Development Seminar (P450), Children's Thinking (P600), Learning, Cognition and Instruction (P506, P251, P465, P525, P530, P540, P545)
Research Interests: Metacognition, Transfer, Motivation and Creativity, Children's Thinking, Children's Interests, Development of Expertise.
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David Estell, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Teaching Areas: Life Span Development: Birth to Death(P514), Child Development (P515), Social Development(P622) and Brain Research Applied to Educational and Clinical Practice(P624)
Research Interests: The social development of children broadly, with an emphasis on how the social context affects ontongeny of aggressive behavior, peer relations, bullying, and relational aggression.
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Anne Stright, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Program Area Head: Human Development
Teaching Areas: Life Span Development (P314), Child Development (P515), Family Processes and Child/Adolescent Development(P625), and Gender Development (P650).
Research Interests: Children's social development; Family influences on children's development; Children's self regulated behavior in classrooms; Child care.
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Mary Waldron ; Assistant Professor
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Teaching Areas: Adolescent Development (P516)
Research Interests: Adolescent substance use/disorder; sexual and reproductive timing; non-marital childbearing; parental divorce; behavioral genetic methodology
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Emeritus Faculty:
Susan J. Eklund, Ph.D. (George Peabody College for Teachers, 1970)
Professor Emeritus
Bryon Root Professor of Aging
Gary Ingersoll, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Joan Prentice, Ed.D. (Indiana University, 1964)
Professor Emeritus
Myrtle Scott, Ph.D. (George Peabody College for Teachers, 1969)
Professor Emeritus
Inquiry Methodology Faculty
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Nathaniel Brown, Ph.D.; Assistant Professor
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Teaching Areas: Learning Theory (P540), Assessment and Measurement (Y527), Qualitative Methodology and Discourse Analysis (P633)
Research Interests: My research focuses on conceptual understanding and explanation in science education. My methods combine the detailed study of situated cognitive activity, exemplified by interaction analysis, and the objective characterization of such interactions, exemplified by construct-referenced (or Rasch) measurement. My research also focuses on the application of construct-referenced measurement to embedded classroom assessment in the areas of middle and high school science and content-area literacy.
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Phil Carspecken, Ph.D.; Professor
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Teaching Areas: Qualitative Research; Philosophical Foundations of Qualitative Research; Social Theory; Sociology of Education; Cultural Studies (Y611, Y650, Y520).
Research Interests: Philosophy of Meaning and Inquiry; All Social Phenomena from a Critical Qualitative Perspective.
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Ginette Delandshere, Ph.D.; Professor
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Program Area Head: Inquiry Methodology
Teaching Areas: Intermediate Statistics; Strategies for Educational Inquiry; Measurement & Assessment; Multivariate Statistics; Psychometric Theory (Y520, Y527, Y604, Y617)
Research Interests: Social Science Inquiry Methodology; Socio-Political Context of Knowledge Formation; Measurement & Assessment.
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Barbara Korth, Ph.D.; Clinical Assistant Professor
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Teaching Areas: Human Diversity and Social Psychology; Research Methodology and Social Theory
Research Interests: Transnational/Immigrant Education, Gender, and other aspects of diversity in schools; Research Methodology and Theory
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Joanne Peng, Ph.D.; Professor
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Teaching Areas: Y500, Y502, Y530, Y603, Y604,
Y750, and P501
Research Interests: Logistic regression; missing data methods; research design; and statistical computing using statistical software (e.g., SAS, SPAA, BMDP, SYSTAT, Minitab, etc.).
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Emeritus Faculty:
Lee Ehman, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, 1969)
Professor Emeritus
Samuel Guskin, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina, 1958)
Professor Emeritus
Gary Ingersoll, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Daniel Mueller, Ph.D. (University of Illinois, 1969)
Professor Emeritus
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Thomas Schwen, Ed.D.
Professor Emeritus
Adjunct Faculty:
David Flinders, Ph.D. (Stanford University, 1987)
Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
Ken Kelley , Ph.D.
James Pershing, Ph.D. (University of Missouri, 1975)
Professor, Instructional Systems Technology
Linda Shepard, Ph.D. (Indiana University, 1997)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Learning Sciences Faculty
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Joyce Alexander, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Chair: Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology
Teaching Areas: Child Development (P348), Foundations of Child Development (P351), Child Development Seminar (P450), Children's Thinking (P600), Learning, Cognition and Instruction (P506, P251, P465, P525, P530, P540, P545)
Research Interests: Metacognition, Transfer, Motivation and Creativity, Children's Thinking, Children's Interests, Development of Expertise.
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Sasha Barab, Ph.D.; Associate Professor & Barbara Jacobs Chair
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Director: Center for Research on Learning and Technology and Current Barbara B. Jacobs Chair of Education and Technology
Teaching Areas: Learning, Cognition & Instruction; Learning and Methods in Learning Sciences; Apprenticeship in the Learning Sciences II
Research Interests: Play spaces for learning; Online communities of practice; Design-based research; Situated Cognition. Create play spaces, frequently with the aid of technology, that are designed to assist children in developing their own sense of purpose as individuals, members of communities, and citizens of the world.
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Nathaniel Brown, Ph.D.; Assistant Professor
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Teaching Areas: Learning Theory (P540), Assessment and Measurement (Y527), Qualitative Methodology and Discourse Analysis (P633)
Research Interests: My research focuses on conceptual understanding and explanation in science education. My methods combine the detailed study of situated cognitive activity, exemplified by interaction analysis, and the objective characterization of such interactions, exemplified by construct-referenced (or Rasch) measurement. My research also focuses on the application of construct-referenced measurement to embedded classroom assessment in the areas of middle and high school science and content-area literacy.
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Joshua Danish, Ph.D.; Assistant Professor
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Teaching Areas: Learning Theory (P540), Application of Learning Theories to Specific Contexts (P544), Theory and Practice for Integrating Computational Technologies in Education.
Research Interests: The role of representations including drawings, graphs, maps, and computer simulations in learning and problem solving. The role of computers and computational thinking in supporting learning. Science education for young children (k-2nd grade). Activity theory and sociocultural theories of learning and development. Discourse analysis.
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Thomas Duffy, Ph.D.; Barbara Jacobs Professor
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Barbara B. Jacobs Chair of Education and Technology
Teaching Areas: Learning Theory; Collaborative learning; Distance education; Post secondary education pedagogy.
Research Interests: Use of technology to support the design of inquiry based learning environments, implications of constructivism and situated cognition for the design of instruction.
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Melissa Gresalfi; Assistant Professor
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My work considers cognition and social context by examining learning as a function of participation in activity settings. Drawing on the situative theories of learning, I have investigated the nature of interactions between elements of mathematics classrooms in order to understand how affordances can be generated for all students to learn mathematics. I conceptualize learning as a trajectory of a student’s participation in a community—a path with a past and present, shaping possibilities for future participation. Central to my work is the concept of taking up opportunities to learn. This captures aspects of my research that focus on students, teachers, classroom systems, and school systems more broadly. More recently, I have begun to apply this lens to investigate the nature of teacher learning and identity development as they engage in efforts to significantly change their practice of teaching mathematics
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Kenneth E. Hay, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Assistant Director, Center for Research on Learning and Technology
Teaching Areas: Learning Theory, Emergent Technologies for Learning, Virtual Reality in Education, Video Based Research Methodologies.
Research Interests: Emergent Technology, Cognition, Learning, and Instruction, Teacher construction of Video Cases for Professional Development, Design of VR Modeling Tools for Learning, and Modeling-Based Inquiry Pedagogies.
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Daniel T. Hickey, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Teaching Areas: Cognition and instruction, motivation, assessment, design-based research.
Research Interests: Formative classroom assessment, sociocultural models of motivation, program evaluation.
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Richard Lesh, Ph.D.; Rudy Professor
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Program Area Head: Learning Sciences
Teaching Areas: Learning and cognitive processes, learning in context, assessment design in mathematics and science education, computer-based curriculum development.
Research Interests: Cognitive processes in mathematics problem solving, situated learning, instructional software development.
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Emeritus Faculty:
Laurence D. Brown, Ed.D. (University of Illinois, 1962)
Professor Emeritus
Donald Cunningham, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Meryl Englander, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, 1957)
Professor Emeritus
David H. Gliesman, Ph.D. (University of Illinois, 1961)
Professor Emeritus
William W. Lynch, Ph.D. (Yale University, 1950)
Professor Emeritus
Thomas Schwen, Ed.D.
Professor Emeritus
Adjunct Faculty:
J. David Perry, Ph.D. (Indiana University, 1992)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
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