College of Education

About Us Admissions & Academics Research & Engagement Departments & Faculty Current Students

Elizabeth A L Stine-Morrow

Apply Now Request Information Contact Us

Key Professional Appointments

  • Professor Emerita, Educational Psychology , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Research Professor, Educational Psychology , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Professor Emerita, Neuroscience Program , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Professor Emerita, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Research & Service

Professor Stine-Morrow's research is focused on the conditions and strategies that augment cognitive health and make us effective learners into later adulthood. Research topics include (a) investigations of how age-related change in cognition impacts language and text comprehension and how shifts in strategy with age can contribute to maintaining text memory, (b) the mechanisms underlying individual variation in literacy skill among adults, and (c) interventions that promote cognitive resilience into late life.

Publications
Courses
  • EPSY 407: Adult Learning and Development: Theory of and research on adult learning and development; includes societal context, performance, physiology and health, personality, and learning; and considers stability and change during young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Meets both foundational requirements for EPSY. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Assignments and work load will commensurate with credit. Prerequisite: EPSY 201, or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
  • EPSY 427: Learning from Text: This course will survey the range of topics related to how we learn from text, i.e., from reading. The course will focus on reading in education settings and approaches to improving reading comprehension. Students will read secondary and primary literature and have opportunities to critique, discuss, and present the findings of this research. Topics discussed will include: eye movements during reading, grammatical structures and discourse conventions of texts that support comprehension, and how comprehension and memory for text can be measured. Assignments will include written reviews of texts and topics. Students taking the course for 4 graduate hours will also plan and present a proposed empirical study related to some topic within the course. 3 undergraduate hours. 2 or 4 graduate hours. Credit is not given for EPSY 427 if credit has been received for either PSYC 425 or LING 425.