Research Centers:
Center for Instructional Innovation
Counseling and School Psychology Clinic
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 |
