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Educational Psychology Faculty:S's
Thomas A. Schwandt
Professor and Ed. Psych. Department Chair
My scholarship is primarily focused on the intersection of social research and practical philosophy and is heavily influenced by the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics. In my research I investigate questions concerning the nature of human action, practice, and understanding, as well as the nature and role of expertise and dialogue in developing understanding. In addition, as a student of methodology, I study matters concerning the ethics of research, the nature and status of evidence, and the ways in which evidence is linked to claims.more information...
Jenny Singleton
Associate Professor
My current program of research focuses on deaf children's language development, both American Sign Language and English, including investigation of the ways that deaf teachers support deaf children's identity and language development through visual means.more information...
Lisa Spanierman
Associate Professor
My research focuses on White individuals’ racial attitudes, their responses to societal racism, and the psychosocial costs of racism to Whites (i.e., negative consequences experienced by Whites as dominant group members in an oppressive system). My colleagues and I developed the Psychosocial Costs of Racism to Whites (PCRW) scale, which measures empathic reactions toward racism, White guilt, and irrational fear of people from other racial groups. Presently, we are deepening our understanding of the relevance of these costs of racism to White students in increasingly diverse environments, and also applying costs of racism theory to White counselors and educators.more information...
Robert Stake
Professor Emeritus
My past efforts have focused on program evaluation theory and practice, and qualitative research methods including case study. I am currently involved in performance assessment in New York City schools and the evaluation of training in the U.S. Veterans Administration. Since 1975 I have been director of the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation (CIRCE). Once a specialist in psychometrics and instructional research, my present orientation is naturalistic or ethnographic field study, particularly of the classroom. In 1998 I retired from the University of Illinois but continue to teach and head CIRCE.more information...
Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow
Professor
Cognition shows patterns of both loss and gain through adulthood. While "mental mechanics" (i.e., working memory capacity, computational speed, executive control of attention) may decline, crystallized abilities (i.e., verbal ability, knowledge, acculturation) show continued capacity for growth in many life-span contexts. Our research program has been focused on understanding the implications of these changes in basic capacities for continued learning, how strategic regulation of attention enables compensation, and how habitual engagement in learning engenders cognitive vitality.more information...