Educational Psychology
Faculty Research
A new Illinois State Board of Education four year grant of $1,250,000 has been awarded to Queries faculty, Katherine Ryan (PI) and Hua-Hua Chang (Co-PI), the External Review of the ISBE Large Scale Assessment and Accountability System. The purpose of the project is to evaluate key components of the current Illinois system using a mixed-methods evaluation design. Two aspects of the Enhanced Illinois Standards Assessment Test (ISAT), the IL NCLB accountability assessment for grades 3-8 in Reading and Mathematics, will be studied: a) the intended and unintended assessment consequences and b) Enhanced ISAT test equating and linking. The evaluation findings are intended to contribute to a plan for a long term IL assessment and accountability program.
A $500,000 four-year grant from the National Science Foundation has been awarded to the Department of
Physics (PIs: Gary Gladding, Jose Mestre, Tim Stelzer and Mats Selens) for developing and
evaluating web-based multimedia modules intended to teach basic content prior to class so that students
come to physics class prepared to refine their understanding via active learning.
Phil Rodkin and Scott Gest of Penn State University were awarded $500,000 from a
joint competition of the William T. Grant and Spencer Foundations for a three-year longitudinal study of
teaching practices, classroom peer ecologies, and youth outcomes during the elementary school years.
 Dr. Jenny Singleton is contributing to the work of the National Science Foundation's Science of Learning Center (VL2), in connection with Gallaudet University. This Center investigates how humans acquire and use language, and develop literacy, when audition is not an available learning mode, including how deaf individuals learn to read, and the extension of visually based learning strategies to general educational practice.
Dr. Jennifer Greene is conducting selected external site visits for NSF ADVANCE programs in Texas and New York. These are programs designed to advance women faculty in science & engineering.
Dr. Dorothy Espelage received a Centers for Disease Control grant to study the intersection between Bullying and Sexual Violence Among Middle School Students.
Dr. Thomas Schwandt is giving an invited talk on "Reflections on the Civic Obligations of Qualitative Inquirers" at the upcoming American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2008 Annual Meeting in New York City in March 2008.
Dr. Jose Mestre is heading a new study investigating expertise in physics using a paradigm from visual cognition. He's exploring the conditions under which experts and novices notice a change in a physics situation (done secretly and unbeknown to the student or expert) after the situation has been encoded in memory and the person begins explaining it. This "problem switch" paradigm offers new insights into how experts and novices encode physics situations in memory and allows predictions of the type of domain-specific features that need to change in a physics situation before they become noticeable.
Journals/Books
In 2007, Jennifer Greene published a book on mixing methods in social inquiry (Jossey-Bass). She continues to give guest presentations in various locales on the topic of mixed methods social inquiry. In the fall of 2008, she gave presentations at the University of Nebraska and the University of Delaware.
Dr. Katherine Ryan and Dean Lorrie Shepard just finished co-editing a new volume on the future of test-based educational accountability. The volume is intended to contribute to the national debate about the re-authorization of No Child Left Behind |
Awards
Dr. Kiel Christianson not only received a Campus Research Board Award for his project
'Masked Prime Self-Paced Reading: A paradigmatic innovation in lexical processing during reading', the project was given the Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, awarded by the UIUC Campus Research Board for "projects of special distinction, special promise, or special resource value."
Dr. Jose Mestre has been named a National Academies Education Mentor in the Life Sciences. For more information...
Dr. Helen Farmer, Professor Emeritus, will receive the 2008 Society of Counseling Psychology (SCP) Lifetime Mentoring Award at the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Meeting in Boston on August 16, 2008. For more information...
Dr. Hua Chang finds flaw in Computerized Testing System. He will receive the award at the NCME conference in March 2008.
Jeanette Reinhardt, an Ed. Psych. counseling grad student, will be honored with the Arnie Miller Achievement Award on March 13, 2008 for her work in the Champaign community. Jeanette is a crisis counselor for the Champaign fire department. Read more here...
Committees
Dorothy Espelage was elected Vice President for Division E (Counseling and Human Development) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She will be VP-elect for the 2009-2010 term and then VP beginning 2010.
Richard Anderson is chairing a working group of the National Academy of Education to formulate
policy on literacy for the next president, and serving on a similar committee for the International Reading
Association. Dr. Anderson was
was a panelist on the National Academy of Education’s policy forum titled “Education Policy in Transition: A Briefing on the National Academy of Education” in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 18. The forum featured researchers, policy leaders and advisers to President-elect Barack Obama and his congressional staff in a discussion of some of the most urgent issues in education policy.
Dr. Dorothy Espelage
appointed to National Institute of Justice Dating Violence Task Force
Dr. Jose Mestre newly appointed to the Committee on Education, American Physical Society, 2007-present
Consultant Work
In May 2008, Dr. Kiel Christianson was invited to College Park, MD, to serve as consultant/reviewer on an independent technical review panel for the National Center for Language and Culture Research and the Center for the Advanced Study of Language. The five-member panel also included researchers from Georgetown, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Carleton College.
Support for Research in the College of Education at UIUC
What if someone was there to help you find new sources of funding for your work? Or to help you navigate the challenges of submitting major grants to major agencies? And wouldn't it be great if you had a dedicated staff of professionals to assist you in conducting research in schools or with other human subjects? Well, at Illinois, we just call all of that the Bureau of Educational Research.
Direct Links to Selected Bureau of Educational Research Services
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