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Educational Psychology Faculty



Educational Psychology

Measurement and Statistics

Research areas: Development and study of methods for meta-analysis, specifically the problems of how to represent and synthesize results of regression analyses; synthesis of literature on teacher qualifications and school outcomes, with particular focus on teacher knowledge

 
  • Pei-hua Chen
  • Assistant Professor
  • 305-A Stone Bldg.
  • 850/644-5203
  • 850/644-8776
  • chen@coe.fsu.edu

Educational Psychology

Measurement and Statistics

Research areas: Automated test assembly, computer-based testing, item response theory, applied statistics, and survey research.


 

Educational Psychology

Sport Psychology

Research areas: cognitive and motor skill acquisition and expertise in real-world tasks, the promotion and acceleration of skill acquisition and expertise, and the limits imposed on human functional capacity by the ageing process, the promotion and acceleration of skill acquisition and expertise, and the limits imposed on human functional capacity by the ageing process, perception and cognition in skilled and expert sport performers; cognition, coordination, and communication in sports teams; psychological skills training; the role of domain general skills in the acquisition of skill; psychological factors in performance enhancement across the life span

 

 

Educational Psychology

Sport Psychology

Research Areas: physical self-perceptions and self-presentation in sport and exercise, coach and athlete burnout, self-determined motivation in physical activity, sport injury

  • Akihito Kamata
  • Associate Professor, Department Chair
  • 850/644-8794
  • 850/644-8776(FAX)
  • kamata@coe.fsu.edu

Educational Psychology

Measurement and Statistics

Research areas: Item Response Theory, multilevel modeling, multilevel item response modeling, differential item functioning

 

 

Educational Psychology

Measurement and Statistics

 

 

stress and performance

psychology of sport injury

 

 

Learning and Cognition

Research areas: early childhood literacy development; preschool curricula and professional development; early childhood assessment; development of self-regulation and school readiness skills

 

 

Educational Psychology

Learning and Cognition

Florida Center for Reading Research

Research Areas: Teacher development and education - professional development and expertise; Effective elementary teaching practices - fostering student motivation, engagement, and literacy development


 

Sport Psychology Program Leader

Research Areas : cognition and perception in sport, decision-making, research design perceived exertion, probabilistic vs. deterministic approach to emotion-related performance zones (ERPZ), assessment and measurement in motor behavior and sport psychology

 

Educational Psychology

Learning and Cognition

Research Areas: Dynamical processes of motivation, beliefs, emotion, self-regulation and learning with students and teachers-as-students.

  • Yanyun Yang
  • Assistant Professor
  • 307-F Stone Building
  • 850/644-8787
  • 850/644-8776
  • yang@coe.fsu.edu

 

Educational Psychology

Measurement and Statistics

Research Areas : Structural equation modeling, reliability estimation methods, statistical modeling of repeated measures data, statistical analysis of large datasets