Sheri Bauman - Associate Professor
 

Ph.D., New Mexico State University

Research interests: school bullying, professional issues in school counseling, and group counseling and therapy.

Teaching specialty areas: counseling theories, group counseling, lifespan
development.

Heidi Legg Burross - Adjunct Assistant Professor
 

Ph.D., University of Arizona

Research interests: student performance, motivational and affective differences among learners.

Teaching specialty areas: child and adolescent development, research methods and measurement, learning theories.

Marjorie Holiman - Adjunct Assistant Professor
 

Ph.D., University of Arizona

Research interests: counselor training methods and clinical outcome research.                                                                                    

Teaching specialty areas:counselor skills training.

Thomas L. Good - Professor and Department Head
 

Ph.D., Indiana University

Research interests: classroom instructional process, including the study of whole-class and small-group learning environments; the communication of expectations in social settings.

Teaching specialty areas: analysis of instructional behavior, theories of instruction, the informal curriculum.

Christopher Scott Johnson I - Assistant Professor
 

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Research interests: creation and development of new methods of estimation to be applied in educational research.

Teaching specialty areas: Maximum Likelihood, Hierarchical Linear Models, Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models.

Deborah Levine-Donnerstein - Senior Lecturer
 

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research interests:

Teaching specialty areas:

Ronald W. Marx - Professor, Dean


Ph.D., Stanford University

Research interests: learning science, instructional innovation in science education, design of interactive learning environments, urban system reform, teacher professional development.

Teaching specialty areas: learning and instruction, psychology and school reform.

 

Research interests: reliability, validity, and item characteristics of measurement devices; assessment of learning outcomes.

Teaching specialty areas: measurement and methodology, quantitative analysis, test construction and interpretation.

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Research interests: social contexts of motivation, collaboative and cooperatiave learning, and academic resilience.

Teaching specialty areas: human learning, motivation, research methods.

 

Consultant to the First-Year Teacher Observation Project with a particular focus on policy implications for the initial preparation of teachers and subsequent professional development opportunities.

Toni Sollars - Administrative Associate