Educational Psychology
Faculty Research
 Dr. Jenny Singleton is contributing to the work of the National Science Foundation's Science of Learning Center (VL2), in connection with Gallaudet University. This Center investigates how humans acquire and use language, and develop literacy, when audition is not an available learning mode, including how deaf individuals learn to read, and the extension of visually based learning strategies to general educational practice.
Dr. Jennifer Greene is conducting selected external site visits for NSF ADVANCE programs in Texas and New York. These are programs designed to advance women faculty in science & engineering.
Dr. Dorothy Espelage received a Centers for Disease Control grant to study the intersection between Bullying and Sexual Violence Among Middle School Students.
Dr. Thomas Schwandt is giving an invited talk on "Reflections on the Civic Obligations of Qualitative Inquirers" at the upcoming American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2008 Annual Meeting in New York City in March 2008.
Dr. Jose Mestre is heading a new study investigating expertise in physics using a paradigm from visual cognition. He's exploring the conditions under which experts and novices notice a change in a physics situation (done secretly and unbeknown to the student or expert) after the situation has been encoded in memory and the person begins explaining it. This "problem switch" paradigm offers new insights into how experts and novices encode physics situations in memory and allows predictions of the type of domain-specific features that need to change in a physics situation before they become noticeable.
Journals/Books
Dr. Katherine Ryan and Dean Lorrie Shepard just finished co-editing a new volume on the future of test-based educational accountability. The volume is intended to contribute to the national debate about the re-authorization of No Child Left Behind
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Awards
Dr. Hua-Hua Chang has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award in Education at the Slavyansk-on-Kuban State Pedagogical Institute, Russia. This is Dr. Chang's second Fulbright Senior Specialist award. For more information....
Dr. Jose Mestre has been named a National Academies Education Mentor in the Life Sciences. For more information...
Student Research
Jeanette Reinhardt, an Ed. Psych. counseling grad student, will be honored with the Arnie Miller Achievement Award on March 13, 2008 for her work in the Champaign community. Jeanette is a crisis counselor for the Champaign fire department. Read more here...
Committees
Dorothy Espelage appointed to National Institute of Justice Dating Violence Task Force
Jose Mestre newly appointed to the Committee on Education, American Physical Society, 2007-present
Support for Research in the College of Education at UIUC
What if someone was there to help you find new sources of funding for your work? Or to help you navigate the challenges of submitting major grants to major agencies? And wouldn't it be great if you had a dedicated staff of professionals to assist you in conducting research in schools or with other human subjects? Well, at Illinois, we just call all of that the Bureau of Educational Research.
Direct Links to Selected Bureau of Educational Research Services
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