Office of Research and Creative Activity Staff

Education

Ph.D., Educational Psychology University of Florida, 2012

M.A.E., Educational Psychology

University of Florida, 2009

B.A. Psychology, Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University), 2003

Credentials and Consulting

I serve as an evaluator on the Rock Solid Evaluation Team http://www.wku.edu/rocksolid/. I have conducted internal and external evaluations of educational and social service programs.

Courses

• PSY 290: Supervised Study in Psychology
• PSY 310: Educational Psychology
• PSY 436: Applied Cognitive Psychology
• PSY 490: Research Project in Psychology
• PSY 510: Advanced Educational Psychology” to Courses
• PSY 514: Program Evaluation

Research Interests

My research examines cognitive factors related to student learning and achievement. I am interested in how working memory capacity (the limited attentional resources we have available during effortful tasks) influences problem-solving and retrieval of information from long-term memory. Part of this work investigates methods for teaching effective strategies to individuals with low working memory capacity (i.e., fewer attentional resources).

Attention & Memory Lab: http://wku.edu/psychology/research/aml/index.php

Research Supervision

I am willing to serve as director or serve on a committee for any of these types of projects: Psy 290, Psy 490, Honors, MA theses, Ed.S. Specialist Projects, Psy.D. Dissertations. 

Links

• Attention and Memory Lab