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College of Education Faculty:C's
Timothy Reese Cain
Assistant Professor
Tim Cain’s research examines academic freedom, student speech, unionization in higher education, and related issues. His current projects include studies of the failed attempts to organize college instructors and professors in the years after World War I and an investigation into the lasting consequences of politically-motivated faculty dismissals.more information...
Janis Chadsey
Professor Emeritus
I am concerned with the social integration experienced by youth and young adults as they make their transition from school to adulthood. Through the Transition Research Institute, I have studied the social interactions and relationships experienced by youths in both school and employment settings; have conducted research designed to teach social skills; and have studied the meaning of social integration from the perspective of youths themselves. In addition to this research, I have conducted research studying practices that facilitate spontaneous communication and expand pragmatic functions of learners with low incidence disabilities. I am actively involved in our teacher certification program.more information...
Hua-hua Chang
Professor
My current research focuses on both theoretical development and applications of item response theory (IRT). These include computer-based assessment, automated test assembly (ATA), differential item functioning (DIF), cognitive diagnostic measurement, and patients reported outcome. Today one of the main challenges in Educational Measurement is to develop theories and methods for the new mode of large scale implementation of computerized assessment. More recently I have been concentrating on developing item selection methods for computerized adaptive testing (CAT). Several new methods have been developed, such as the a-stratified method, the global information method, and the constraint weighted information (CWI) method.more information...
Kiel Christianson
Assistant Professor
Kiel Christianson's research focuses on language comprehension and production. Specifically, he's interested in how people arrive at interpretations of language input, especially when those interpretations are not consistent with the input (i.e., misinterpretations) but still might be "good enough" for normal communication. This research is being extended to non-native speakers, aphasic speakers, and specialized content areas, such as math/physics word problems (STEM). He is also conducting research in bilingual sentence processing and production, visual word recognition and reading, and psycholinguistics in several other languages.more information...
Jeanne Connell
Assistant Professor
My current research interests focus philosophy of education, particularly how the American pragmatic philosophy of John Dewey influences views about knowledge, learning, and teaching. In my recent articles, I analyzed the connection between pragmatic philosophy and the literary theory of Louise Rosenblatt, who was a pioneer in developing what is known in the field of reading as reader-response-theory. I explored how these diverse disciplines inform one another in order to enhance democratic education. My current projects focus on philosophy of education, transaction-based literary theory, as well as the teaching of social foundations of education to pre-service teachers.more information...
William Cope
Research Professor
My current research interests include population and community diversity, theories and practices of pedagogy and new technologies of representation and communication, including the 'semantic web'.more information...
Denise Crews
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Crews’ current research interests surround higher education access and community college student patterns of success. Included under this research umbrella are community college transitional programs which promote college readiness for academic core courses, and the interventions and curriculum alignment models utilized to facilitate college success.more information...
Michele Crockett
Assistant Professor
Michele Crockett’s research includes issues of education policy, school reform, and institutional contexts, especially as these issues relate to teachers’ professional learning for improving mathematics instruction and achievement at underperforming schools. Presently, she seeks to understand how formative assessment practices in teachers’ mathematics instruction can directly improve students’ deep mathematical understandings and the implications for refocusing school-based professional development efforts.more information...
Gary Cziko
Professor Emeritus
My past research has focused on first and second language acquisition, language assessment, bilingual education, research methods, and the application of evolutionary theory and perceptual control theory to understanding human behavior, learning and education. I am currently focusing my research activities on what I call Autonomous Technology-Assisted Language Learning (ATALL). ATALL involves using and developing technology, in particular Internet media and communication tools, to enhance education in foreign-languages and cultures.more information...