Faculty in the Educational Psychology and Research programs have received grant funding from many federal and state agencies including the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Justice and the South Carolina Department of Education and Commission on Higher Education.
Position: Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Bullying and victimization; physical and social aggression; social goals (e.g., popularity goal); peer social dynamics (e.g., popularity status, peer groups); peer social norms; teacher attunement to aggressors; teacher management of peer social dynamics.
Position: Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Motivation and emotion in learning and performance; self-regulated learning and emotion regulation; learning and instruction in higher education and professional contexts (e.g., medical education); simulation training and immersive learning environments.
Position: Associate Professor
Research Interests: Academic, social, and behavioral development of adolescents from rural communities; students’ risk and resilience; motivation and engagement; learning in online courses; youth with disabilities; peer social dynamics.
Position: Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Learning about controversial socio-scientific issues (e.g., vaccines); individual
characteristics that predict learning success or failure; beliefs, identity, cognitive
and emotional processes during learning; how individuals revise misconceptions.
Position: Professor
Research Interests: Structural equation modeling; survey design; latent class cluster analysis; application of advanced statistics and measurements methods to issues rated to school psychology.
Position: Clinical Associate Professor
Position: Professor
Research Interests: Statistical power analysis; hierarchical linear modeling; statistical programming; educational policy studies; applied statistics.
Position: Professor
Position: Associate Professor
Research Interests: Nonparametric statistics for behavioral/ social research, R applications development, statistics education, multiple comparison procedures.
Position: Professor of Research Methods
Research Interests: Impact studies in education, statistical power for multilevel research designs.
Position: Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Mixture modeling, structural equation modeling, and scale development. She also applies advanced statistics and measurement methods to rural education and development.