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Educational Psychology and Learning Systems Faculty



Instructional Systems

Founder and Director of the Center for Research of Innovative Technologies for Learning (RITL)

 

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


Psychological Services

Research areas: Content area literacy and child-by-instruction interactions, High-stakes achievement testing, Response to Intervention; behavioral and academic interventions, Crisis Intervention, Academic transition following trauma, Socio-emotional transition into foster care.

Selected publications

 
  • 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.


Instructional Systems

Research areas: Complex cognitive skills

 

Instructional Systems

Research areas: Online discourse; Community of practice


Instructional Systems

Research areas: Learning; Instructional Theory; Educational Semiotics

 


 

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

 

Instructional Systems

Research areas: developing practical methods and software tools to measure group interactions and processes in online discussions

  • 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

 

Instructional Systems

Research areas: motivational systems; performance improvement; systematic training design processes


 

Psychological Services

Research areas: Counseling process and outcome, Eclecticism and psychotherapy integration, self-change and adjuncts to therapy, counselor training and development, scientist-practitioner model, international and diversity issues in counseling.

Selected publications

 
  • Janet G. Lenz, Ph.D., MCC, NCC
  • Assistant-In, Ed. Psychology & Learning Systems
  • Coordinator, Ed.S./M.S. Career Counseling Specialty
  • Program Director—Instruction, Research, & Evaluation
  • Co-Director, Center for the Study of Technology in Counseling & Career Development
  • 850/644-9547 or 850/644-1249
  • 850/644-3273 (FAX)
  • jlenz@fsu.edu
  • www.career.fsu.edu
  • Curriculum Vita

Psychological Services

Research areas: design and delivery of career services in higher education; training career services providers; use of Holland-based tools in career services

Selected publications


 

Educational Psychology

Learning and Cognition

Research areas: social cognition and group dynamics

 

 

Educational Psychology

Measurement and Statistics

 


 

Psychological Services

Director of Clinical Training, Combined Doctoral Program in Counseling Psychology and School Psychology

Research areas: social and emotional needs of the gifted, talent identification, test development, psychological well-being/strength-based assessment

Selected publications

 

 

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


 

Psychological Services

Coordinator of the Psychological Services in Education Program. Co-director, Adult Learning Evaluation Center, Florida State University

Research areas: assessment and interventions for college students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; ADHD Coaching; predictors of college success such as motivational and personality factors; personality assessment in children and adults

Selected publications

 

 

Psychological Services

Coordinator of the School Psychology MS/EdS program; Co-Director, Adult Learning Evaluation Center, Florida State University.

Research areas: psycho-educational assessment, including progress monitoring; behavioral and instructional consultation; academic interventions; learning disabilities and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in high school and college students

Selected publications


 

Psychological Services

Professor (Retired) & Courtesy Appointment, Career Center; Senior Research Associate, Center for the Study of Technology of Counseling & Career Development; Florida State University (FSU).

Research areas: development and evaluation of life/career planning interventions for youth and adults

Selected publications

 

Instructional Systems

Research areas: incorporating technology in classrooms; cognitive load; evaluating web-based and computer-based instruction; instructional planning practices of teachers; instructional design competencies.


 

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

 

 

Psychological Services

Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Technology in Counseling and Career Development

Research areas: appropriate use of computer technology in counseling; the use of cognitive strategies in the improvement of career counseling and guidance services

Selected publications


Instructional Systems

Research Areas: social and mathematical psychology; educational psychology and technology with a strong emphasis on quasi-experimental designs; model-based learning and instruction; inductive reasoning and complex problem solving; the investigation of discovery learning within technology-enhanced environments; processes of decision making in instructional design; the search for research-based principles of instructional design

 
  • Valerie Shute
  • Associate Professor
  • 305-C Stone Bldg.
  • 850/644-8785
  • 850/644-8776
  • vshute@fsu.edu

Instructional Systems

Research areas: Cognitive modeling/diagnosis, adaptive instructional system design, formative and stealth assessments to support learning, and innovative evaluation methodologies.


Instructional Systems

Research areas: learning assessment in complex domains; intelligent performance support for instructional design; system dynamics based learning environments; technology integration in learning and instruction

 

 

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

 
 
 

Affiliated Faculty



Instructional Systems

Research areas: Team work and leadership in instructional systems, both face to face and online; student satisfaction and retention in e-learning environments; instructional design for online learning

 

Instructional Systems


Psychological Services

Research areas: Design and delivery of career services in higher education, electronic applications to career services including ePortfolios.

Selected publications

 

Instructional Systems

Research areas: Team cognition and performance


 
 

Emeriti



Instructional Systems

Research areas: Human Performance Development; Change Management; Training System Design; Selection System Design

 

 

Instructional Systems

Research areas: strategic planning; performance improvement; distance learning; quality management and continuous improvement; needs assessment; management; evaluation


 

Instructional Systems

 

 

stress and performance

psychology of sport injury

 


 

Instructional Systems