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