Faculty Research Interests
The following is a list of research topics which are of special interest to our faculty. This list is by no means comprehensive, but should serve as a general guide for faculty, current graduate students and prospective graduate students in identifying scholars with congruent research interests. Click on the links below to access web pages of faculty member(s) with chosen research interests.
- Academic Interventions in Reading and Mathematics
- Accountability and Leadership Practices
- Acrostic Mnemonics
- Addictions
- Adolescent Development
- Adolescent Literacy Issues
- Adult Literacy
- African American Children's Literature
- After-School Programming
- Alternative Education
- American Educational History
- Appropriate and Sustainable Uses of Technology
- Archaeology Education
- Arts and Learning
- Arts Education
- Assessment
- At-Risk Learners
- At-Risk Youth
- Attitude Survey Development
- Behavior Management
- Brain Dominance and Learning Styles
- Bullying
- Career Changers
- Career Counseling and Development
- Child Development
- Children's and Adolescent Literature
- Children's Engineering
- Children's Literature as Models for Writing
- Clinical Supervision
- Closing the Achievement Gap
- Cognition and Learning
- Community Counseling
- Computer Mediated Communication in Teacher Education
- Comprehension and Vocabulary Strategies
- Comprehension of Scientific Text
- Comprehension on the Internet
- Cooperative Learning
- Corporate Universities
- Co-Teaching
- Counselor Education
- Counselors in Training
- Creating Positive Sport and Learning Environments
- Critical Mathematics Education
- Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing
- Curriculum and Leadership Development in Career and Technology Education
- Delinquency and Recidivism
- Developing Opportunities for Students from Low SES Areas to Improve their Mathematical Knowledge
- Development of Youth
- Development Across the Lifespan
- Development of Pre-Service and In-Service Science Teachers
- Diagnostics
- Distance and Distributed Education and Learning Environments
- Diversity
- Dropout Prevention Strategies
- Dynamics of Relationships between University Faculty and Public School Faculty
- Early American History
- Early Childhood Programs
- Early Childhood Special Education
- Early Intervention
- Early Literacy Processes
- Economic Development
- Education Law
- Educational Change
- Educational/Instructional Technology
- Effective Preparation for Pre-Service and In-Service Special Educators
- Electronic Assessment Portfolios
- Elementary Design and Technology Education
- Environmental Education
- Epistemology
- Ethics in Counseling and Supervision
- Ethnic Identity Development
- Expertise
- Family Systems
- Formative and Design Experiments
- Gender Equity
- Geometry Education
- Group Counseling
- Hegemony, Culture, and Mathematics
- Higher Education Administration
- Historical Research Methods
- How Children Learn Mathematics
- Hypnotherapy
- Identity Development
- Impact of Service Learning on Development
- Inclusion
- Individual Resiliency Skills
- Instructional Applications of Web-Based Database Solutions
- Instructional Design and Human Performance Improvement
- Instructional Interventions in Reading for People with Learning Disabilities
- Integration of Physical Education and Academics
- Integrating Data Analysis in the Secondary Mathematics Curriculum
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- K-12 Technology Education
- Language Arts in Middle School
- Law
- Leader Development
- Leadership
- Leadership in Complex Organizations
- Leadership in Higher Education
- Learning Theory and Assessment
- Lecture Design/Delivery
- Legal/Constitutional Aspects of African American Educational Experience
- Legal and Policy Issues in Special Education
- Legal Impact Studies
- Lifespan Development
- Literacy and Motivation
- Literacy and Technology
- Literature
- Literature and Cultures of Appalachia
- Mainstreaming Special Populations in the Technology Education Classroom
- Malnutrition and Behavior
- Math Education
- Math Instruction for Students with Disabilities
- Measurement Models
- Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learning Styles
- Mental Health Professionals in Schools
- Mentoring
- Micropolitics
- Middle/Secondary Science Education, Inquiry Education, Math/Science Partnerships, Physics Education, & Chemistry Education
- Minority Experiences in Education
- Missing Data Techniques
- Motivation
- Multicultural Children's Literature
- Multicultural Competence in Counseling
- Multicultural Counseling and Issues
- Multiculturalism
- Multiliteracies in Early/Elementary Education
- Multimedia Development
- Museum Education
- New Literacies
- New Professionals
- Ninth Grade Academy
- Onsite Methods Courses
- Organizational Development
- Organizational and Leadership Issues in Educational Institutions
- Pediatric Counseling
- Philosophy of Teaching and Learning
- Place-based education
- Politics of Children's Literature
- Postcolonial Educational Processes
- Praxis II Trends
- Pre-Service Teacher Self-Efficacy
- Professional Development
- Professional Teaching Communities
- Program Evaluation
- Psychopathology and the DSM IV
- Psychopharmacology
- Public Policy
- Qualitative Research
- Quantitative Research
- Rasch Measurement Procedures
- Reader Response and Motivation
- Reading Comprehension Instruction
- Reading in Primary Grades
- Reading Recovery
- Recruitment, Retention, Academic Achievement, Outcomes and Professional Development of African-Americans and other Racial and Ethnic Minorities
- Reflection as a Tool for Professional Development
- Reggio Emilia
- Relation between Literacy and Media
- Religion and Public Schools
- Representations in Science Education
- Representation of Authors and Illustrators of Color in Scholastic Book Club Order Forms
- Resiliency in Children
- Role of Discussion in Teaching and Learning
- School-Based Governance
- School Counseling
- School Finance
- School Principal Performance
- Schooling Narratives
- Science Education
- Secondary Instructional Strategies for Effective Inclusion Instruction
- Self-Awareness and Self-Efficacy
- Situated Cognition
- Social-Political Philosophy
- Social Studies Methods
- Sociocultural Concepts of Child Development and Early Childhood Education
- Sociocultural and Sociopolitical Aspects of Children’s Literature
- Sport Law
- Student Progress Monitoring
- Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
- Students with Special Needs
- Supporting New Leaders through Induction
- Survey Research
- Teacher Education
- Teacher Knowledge
- Teacher Learning
- Teachers'/Children's Use of Technology
- Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Mathematics
- Teaching About Social Issues
- Teaching American History
- Teaching and Learning Science
- Teaching/Learning Processes in Physical Education/Activity
- Two-Year Colleges
- Understanding Miranda Rights
- Using Literacy to Teach for Social Justice and Equity
- Using Technology Effectively to Develop Mathematical Concepts
- Video Communications in the Classroom Environment
- Visual Arts Education
- Vocabulary Learning Strategies
- Web-Based Note Taking
- Web/CD-Based Learning
- Women in School Administration
- Working with Latino Families
- Writing
- Writing Instruction and Assessment
- Youth Development
