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Sharon Tettegah
Associate Professor
My research focuses on pre-service teacher education and students as it relates to human perception and performance in human-computer intelligent interaction within teaching and learning milieus. I specialize in the study of social simulations and virtual reality environments. I am currently investigating pre-service teachers, and other students in higher education, attitudes and perceptions of student's school interactions involving empathy. My research interests include the use of web based animated narrative vignette technologies (social simulations) as a methodology to understand cognitive and emotional responses of educators and other professionals in helping professions.more information...
John Trach
Associate Professor
Current research includes the transition of students from school to work and employment for persons with disabilities, the development of support networks to enhance community inclusion, program implementation and evaluation, and inservice and preservice training. Goals for future research projects are to more effectively describe successful postschool outcomes for persons with significant disabilities maximizing entitlement programs (e.g., public school, social security).more information...
Tod Treat
Assistant Professor
My research interests focus on four broad areas: Alliance formation and collaborative forms. Knowledge transfers and boundary spanning, particularly in complex, high technology organizations such as health care, pharmaceutical, life science, renewable energy, and nanotechnology industries. Technology transfer. STEM educational systems and policy toward societal problem-solving. Training and development of scientists and managers to enhance national competitiveness in science and technology. Scientific literacy across the population, recruitment and retention of women and minorities.more information...
William Trent
Professor
My past research has focused on: 1) Educational Inequality: school desegregation effects (K-12, postsecondary), benefits and consequences, social organziation of school, status attainment research, co- and extracurricular activities, comparative education; 2) Race and Ethnicity: social stratification and mobility, equality of opportunity; and 3) Complex Organization/Social Change/Policy. I am principal investigator for an Educational Reform Project focused on understanding the role of race, ethnicity, class and gender in school reform. I have also recently served as an expert witness on a court appointed panel in Vaughns, et. al. v. Bd. of Educ. of P.G. Co., MD.more information...
Brenda Trofanenko
Assistant Professor
My research focuses on the public museum as an educational institution, the nationalist purpose of education (specifically history education), and, the development of students' historical consciousness. There exists a need to examine how students learn about the past in various public institutions, and how this is framed as advancing a national identity and feelings of nationalism. Much of my work is situated in public museums (history, ethnology, and natural history museums) that allows for examining how students gain an understanding of historical knowledge by engaging in historical inquiry. I then examine how students can distinguish how various interpretations of the past serve particular purposes in the present.more information...
Brendesha Tynes
Assistant Professor
My research focuses on adolescent and emerging adult constructions of culture, race and identity in online settings and associations between online victimization and psychological adjustment. Central goals of my work are to outline the psychosocial and educational benefits of social media as well as the risk and protective factors associated with online racial discrimination.more information...