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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Educational Psychology

Research

Research Centers:

Center for Instructional Innovation

Counseling and School Psychology Clinic

Buros Center for Testing

Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools

Nebraska Prevention Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Nebraska Evaluation and Research (NEAR) Center

Office of Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research

 

Journals housed in Educational Psychology:

Applied Measurement in Education
Editor: Kurt Geisinger

Journal of Mixed Methods Research
Editor: John Creswell
Managing Editor: Vicki Plano Clark

Journal of School Psychology
Editor: Ed Daly

 

Faculty Research Interests:

Cognition, Learning & Development

Roger Bruning

Reading, writing, belief and cognition, technology and education.

Eric Buhs

Peer rejection and school adjustment; peer relations in multicultural contexts.

Douglas Kauffman Self regulated learning, motivation, cognitive allocation theory, metacognition

Kenneth Kiewra

Studying, prose processing, memory.

David Moshman

Development of reasoning, rationality, morality, and identity in adolescence and early adulthood, genocide and identity, academic freedom.

Ian Newman

Adolescent health related behavior; for example: Alcohol and tobacco use; cross cultural issues

Counseling Psychology

M. Meghan Davidson Revention, Interpersonal relationship violence, Sexual assualt, Career development, Gender and multicultural issues; intersections of identitites, Social justice, Health promotion, and Interdisciplinary work within women's and gender studies, journalism, and law

Michael Scheel

Marriage and family therapy, counseling process, parenting and career development.

Oksana Yakushko

Immigration and refugee adjustment, gender issues

Quantitative, Qualitative, and Psychometric Methods

Charles Ansorge

Technology-based teaching tools for enhancing teaching and student learning.

Jim Bovaird

Multi-level and latent variable modeling


John Creswell

Survey and qualitative research methods in education, issues related to the American Professoriate.

R. De Ayala

Item response theory, hierarchical linear models, applied and theoretical psychometrics.

Kurt Geisinger

Testing and psychometric theory,Testing of individuals with disabilities and language minorities, High-stakes tests for admissions and personnel selection, Performance assessment, Legal issues in testing

Ellen Weissinger

Interdisciplinary in nature and focused on leisure and recreation, and especially boredom.

School Psychology

Ed Daly

Academic Interventions, Applied Analysis, Functional Analysis, Assessment

Beth Doll

Models of school mental health, Naturally-occurring supports for children’s mental health, and evaluations of the impact of mental health services.

Merilee McCurdy

Academic Interventions, specifically to improve student writing performance, Behavioral Pediatric Psychology, Response-to-Intervention

Susan Sheridan

Relationships and partnerships for children and youth: Family involvement and interventions; Home-school partnerships; Parent-teacher (conjoint) consultation; Social skills interventions

Susan Swearer

Cognitive-behavioral interventions for youth and families; Effective prevention and intervention for aggressive behavior in youth; Comorbidity of internalizing and externalizing problems in children and adolescents; Training issues for pre doctoral psychologists