MARY KOPALA, Ph.D., Executive Officer
Counseling Psychology

DAISUKE AKIBA, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Developmental psychology and education; culture and education, social psychology.

ELEANOR ARMOUR-THOMAS, Ph.D., Associate Professor.
Improvement of Teaching and Learning, research in cognition and learning, with particular emphasis on students from culturally diverse backgrounds.

DAVID BEARISON, Ph.D., Professor.
Social-cognitive development, social interaction, learning and cognition, cognition and affect, developmental theories, aging.

SHIRLEY COHEN, Ph.D., Professor.
Special education, families of children with disabilities, options for young adults and aging persons with disabilities.

LINNEA C. EHRI, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor.
Reading and spelling acquisition and disability, literacy, psycholinguistics, cognitive and language development.

SHIRLEY FELDMANN, Ph.D., Professor Emerita.
Reading and literacy, technology in classroom learning, instructional design, issues in urban education.

MARIAN C. FISH, Ph.D., Professor.
Cognitive behavior modification, family systems, instructional technology.

BERT FLUGMAN, Ph.D., Professor.
Career development, organizational change in schools, special education.

DAVID GOH, Ph.D., Professor.
Psychological assessment and intervention, differential diagnosis of children’s disorders, multicultural issues and procedures in psychological service delivery, clinical research methodology, microcomputer applications in professional psychology.

ALAN GROSS, Ph.D., Professor
Applied statistics, educational measurement, techniques for problems of missing data.

DOMINIC GULLO, Ph.D., Professor
Child development, early cognition and language development, early childhood education and early literacy.

PENNY HAMMRICH, Ph.D., Professor
Science education and gender equity in science education.

JEFFREY HALPERIN, Ph.D., Professor.
The relationship between brain functions and behavior disorders in children.

HOPE HARTMAN, Ph.D., Professor.
Research on instructional theory, applications of instructional theory in schools and in higher education and research.

BRUCE HOMER, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Literacy, language and cognition, cognitive development, theory of mind, and computer-based multimedia learning.

IDA JELTOVA, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Socio-cultural approach to cognitive modifiability, process-oriented assessment, exceptional learners, risky health behaviors.  

HELEN JOHNSON, Ph.D., Professor.
Language development and emergent literacy; language and literacy development in dual language learners; school-based prevention; home-school partnerships and parent education.

BEATRICE KACHUCK, Ph.D., Professor Emerita.
Reading and language, cognition, sociocultural interaction, gender contexts, life-span learning.

DAVID LAVIN, Ph.D., Professor.
Sociology of education, education and social inequality, social psychology.

JOSEPH LiPUMA, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor.
Psychological assessment, program evaluation & computer applications for School Psychologists.

EMILIA LOPEZ, Ph.D., Associate Professor.
School psychology, consultation, linguistically and culturally diverse students.

ELLEN B. MANDINACH, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor.
Applied cognitive psychology, cognitive consequences of computer learning environments, individual differences, measurement, learning, instruction and cognitions.

KEITH MARKUS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor.
Interpretation of quantitative models, test validity, structural equation modeling, discourse analysis, organizational culture.

GAOYIN QIAN, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Literacy acquisition in young children from immigrant families, and adolescents.

PHILIP RAMSEY, Ph.D., Professor.
Computer simulation, power of statistical tests, ability factors.

DAVID RINDSKOPF, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor.
Latent variable models, design and analysis of nonexperimental studies, analysis with missing data, categorical data.

ROSLYN ROSS, Ph.D., Associate Professor.
Assessment, measurement, counseling, personality development, issues in learning disability identification, school psychology supervision practices.

MARILYN ROUSSEAU, Ph.D., Professor.
Development of language with emphasis on handicapped children, particularly writing, autistic children.

HOLLIS S. SCARBOROUGH, Ph.D., Adjunct.
Language development, reading acquisition and reading disabilities.

CHARLES SCHERBAUM, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Industrial organizational psychology, psychometric theory, the use of statistical models of test bias.

IRVIN SCHONFELD, Ph.D., Professor.
Factors that undermine or enhance the physical and mental health and morale of teachers.

DAVID SEELEY, Ed.D., Professor.
Leadership theory, organizational theory and change theory: Redefining public school reform.

LEA THEODORE, Assistant Professor
Academic and behavioral interventions and classwide interventions

CAROL KEHR TITTLE, Ph.D., Professor, Emerita
Educational measurement, program evaluation, gender and education, validity of assessments in the teaching and learning context.

GEORGIANA TRYON, Ph.D., Professor.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Client Engagement and Supervision/Supervisee Relationship.

JAY VERKUILEN,Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Psychometrics, (the use of generalized linear and  nonlinear mixed models, particularly as applied to item response theory and scaling, and the analysis of bounded data.

JASON YOUNG,  Ph.D., Associate Professor
Social Psychology

BARRY J. ZIMMERMAN, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor.
Social cognitive learning and children’s development, teaching through demonstration, self-regulated learning, microcomputer instruction, health education.