College Faculty

• Community Relations

• Children's sense of being literate and its relationship to their literacy learning and engagement in classroom literacy practices
• Effective literacy practices in elementary classrooms
• Critical literacy
• Teacher development as literacy leaders

• School counselor/teacher training effectiveness
  
• School counselor/teacher influence on student achievement;

• Social studies curriculum and instruction;
• Analysis of teaching;
• Social studies instruction in other cultures;
• Research on teaching and coaching.

• Promoting metacognitive development in mathematics classrooms
• Writing in mathematics
• Supporting beginning teachers and breaking the cycle of assimilation
• Developing thinking and reasoning skills
  

• Philosophy of Education
• Democratic Education
• Religion in Democratic Life

• Dispositional factors related to socio-political attitudes and judgments.
• Measurement-related issues in authoritarianism and moral judgment research.
• The application of need for closure theory for understanding student and teacher behavior in the classroom.
• The conceptualization and measurement of personal epistemology.

• Preservice teachers' beliefs about technology integration ;
• Belief differences between inservice and preservice teachers;
• Effectiveness of reflective professional development strategies for both preservice and inservice teach

Assistant Professor

Editor, College Student Affairs Journal

• Postsecondary Access and Equity Issues
• Race and Gender in Colleges and Universities
• Sociology of Higher Education
• Student Identity and Identity Intersections

• Development and influence of epistemic beliefs and motives
• Impact of teachers’ and learners’ personal epistemology on children’s and teens’ motivation and achievement

• Equity
• College Classrooms
• Curriculum
• Womanism and Womanist Theology
• Narrative Inquiry