Faculty Profiles
Below you will find profiles for each of the Learning and Development Program faculty. Feel free to contact them with any questions.
Current Rank: Professor, Learning and Development
Courses Typically Taught: Development in Infancy and Early Childhood, Social Cognition
Research Areas: My research examines the relationships between language acquisition or processing and cognition or social cognition in adults and children. I am also interested in vocabulary and how it relates to literacy development.
Current Research Projects: I am currently working on a project that examines the comprehension of storybooks written for young children. Specifically, we are examining what information is available in the books' pictures that is not available in the text itself, how this influences coherence, and how it influences comprehension. I am also working on an edited volume with colleagues in the Linguistics department on Formulaic Language (idioms, chunks, words that are typically used together and stored in memory as a unit), based on an international conference that we hosted at the university last Spring.
Contact Information:
Roberta Corrigan
Department of Educational Psychology
P.O. Box 413
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201
E-mail: corrigan@csd.uwm.edu
Office: Enderis 749
Phone: 414-229-6831
To view Dr. Corrigan's Vita click here.
Current Rank: Associate Professor, Learning and Development
Courses Typically Taught: Introduction to Learning and Development, Contextual Determinants of Motivation, Psychology of Achievement Motivation
Research Area: My research interests revolve around understanding motivational processes inherent in social contexts. Primarily, I focus on the interaction between teachers and students. I am looking at how teachers' motivating styles affect students' classroom functioning such as intrinsic motivation, internalization processes, classroom engagement, and achievement. I am currently investigating how teachers can motivate and engage students on relatively uninteresting lessons. I also examine learning environments that simultaneously support students' autonomy and provide high structure. In doing so, I use both laboratory and classroom methodologies, and I rely on quantitative data sets. I have also looked at all these motivational issues from a cross-cultural perspective.
Current Research Projects: Currently, I am examining two engagement-fostering properties of teachers' instructional styles- autonomy support and structure. This study is funded by the Institute for Excellence in Urban Education Grant AY 2007-2008 (IEUG). This intervention-based, longitudinally-designed research project pursues two goals. First, this project seeks to enhance urban teachers' capacity to create highly motivating classrooms. Second, this project seeks to enhance urban students' motivation, engagement, and achievement. The evidence-based research findings from this study is designed to help urban teachers enhance the effectiveness of their instructional style by incorporating new, evidence-based instructional strategies (i.e., provision of structure and autonomy support) into their existing instructional styles. I have been also conducting a laboratory-based study to test the idea of creating a cognitive gap (in the Piagetian sense) in learners between a sense of knowing and a sense of not knowing as a motivational strategy to enhance engagement and learning during relatively uninteresting learning activities.
Professional Service: Reviewer: Journal of Contemporary Educational Psychology, Motivation and Emotion; Members: American Psychological Association (Division 15), American Educational Research Association (Division C; Motivation SIG), Past-Invited Faculty Mentor for the annual Division 15 Doctoral Research Seminar with the American Psychological Association's annual meeting (APA).
Honors: 2003 T. Anne Cleary Psychological Research Award at University of Iowa; 2003 APA - Science Directorate Graduate Student Travel Award (for outstanding original research proposal by a psychology graduate student); 2002 Franklin D. Stone International Student Research Award at University of Iowa; 2002 Erwin and Louise Wasta International Student Scholarship at University of Iowa; 2001 James and Coretta Stroud Research Fellowship at University of Iowa.
Contact Information:
Hyangshim Jang
Department of Educational Psychology
P.O. Box 413
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201
E-mail: hjang@uwm.edu
Office: Enderis 757
Phone: 414-229-4470
To view Dr. Jang's Vita click here.
Current Rank: Associate Professor and Area Chair, Learning and Development
Courses Typically Taught: Theory and Research in Child Development, Adolescence, Multicultural Family, Immigrant Child in Developmental Perspective
Research Areas: My main areas of interest are adolescent development in the family context, immigrant families and adolescents, parenting styles and child adjustment, racial and cultural socialization patterns and adolescent adjustment, extended family and youth adjustment, and parental involvement and school outcomes.
Current Research Projects: Ethnic and racial socialization during adolescence and parental involvement in education during middle school.
Professional Service: Editorial board, International Journal of Behavioral Development; Ad hoc Reviewer, Journal of Research on Adolescence, Journal of Adolescence, Journal of Adolescent Research
Contact Information:
Department of Educational Psychology
P.O. Box 413
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201
E-mail: slamborn@uwm.edu
Office: Enderis 715
Phone: 414-229-5305
To view Dr. Lamborn's Vita click here.
Current Rank: Assistant Professor, Learning and Development
Courses Typically Taught: Introduction to Learning and Development, Psychology of Race and Ethnicity, Introduction to Museum Education
Research Areas: My primary areas of interests are cognition and epistemological development across disciplines, including science, art and history, as well as across learning environments, including museums and school classrooms, particularly for underserved and underrepresented urban learners.
Current Research Projects: Informal Settings for Learning and Achievement: Museums in Action (ISLA: MIA): Mixed methods research study of informal science learning among 500 Latino families in Milwaukee. Funding provided by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Education's Institute for Excellence in Urban Education; the University of Wisconsin System Institute on Race and Ethnicity; and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Cultures and Communities Program Community University Partnership grant.
Field Trips to Museums and Student Learning: What Does the Data Tell Us?: Survey-based research study exploring student learning in museums and how school teachers attempt to foster curricular connections between school classrooms and museums in order to meet discipline-based local and national learning standards. Funding for this study provided by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School Research Committee.
Nonprofit Museum Volunteer Educators: A Community of Teachers and Learners: Survey-based research study investigating Wisconsin's nonprofit museum volunteers' professional and educational backgrounds and experiences and their perceptions about teaching and learning in museums. Initial funding for this study provided by the Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management.
Professional Service (Editorial Boards, Offices): Board Member, Latino Historical Society of Wisconsin; Guest Editor for the Journal of Museum Education upcoming issue titled The Intersection of the Learning Sciences and Museum Education; Museum Studies Program Committee Member; Middle Childhood through Early Adolescence (MCEA) Collaborative Teacher Education Program faculty member
Honors: 2001-2005 University of Washington Presidential Fellowship; 2004 International Conference of the Learning Sciences Doctoral Consortium Participant; 2002-2003 American Educational Research Association/Spencer Foundation Pre-Dissertation Fellowship; 2003 Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholarship; 2001 The Smithsonian Institution's Center for Education and Museum Studies Diversity, Leadership and Museums Award
Contact Information:
Sandra Toro Martell
Department of Educational Psychology
P.O. Box 413
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201
E-mail: smartell@uwm.edu
Office: Enderis 745
Phone: 414-229-5681
To view Dr. Martell's Vita click here.
Current Position: Professor, Learning & Development
Education: Ph.D. in General Experimental Psychology, Texas Christian University
Courses Taught: Motivation, Contextual Determinants of Motivation; Introduction to Learning and Development
Research Areas: I study all aspects of human motivation and emotion. I use empirical methods to understand from where students' school-based motivation comes, how it changes, why it changes, whether it is of high quality (and educationally constructive) or of low quality (and educationally maladaptive), and what it predicts in terms of classroom engagement, school achievement, and psychologial well-being. I also use empirical methods to understand a teacher's interpersonal process of nurturing and supporting (vs. neglecting and frustrating) students' motivation, which I conceptualize along a continuum that ranges from highly controlling to highly autonomy supportive. Because of its many benefits to students, I spend a great deal of time and thought trying to understand and promote teachers' autonomy-supportive motivating style toward during instruction.
Current Research Projects:
* Understanding the motivational significance of personal autonomy.
* Helping K-12 teachers adopt a more autonomy-supportive style during instruction.
* Understanding the role of students' "voice" within the larger construct of student engagement.
* The psychobiology of being controlled by others/teachers (salivary cortisol).
* Using fMRI to answer the question, "Can the brain generate motivation of its own?"
Profession Service: Current chair of Motivation in Education SIG (AERA); Associate Editor, Motivation and Emotion; committee work with APA Division 15.
Contact Information:
Johnmarshall Reeve
Department of Educational Psychology
P.O. Box 413
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201
E-mail:
reeve@uwm.edu
Office: Enderis 779
Phone: 414-229-4793
To view Dr. Reeve's vita, click
here.
Current Rank: Associate Professor, Learning & Development
Courses Typically Taught: Introduction to Learning & Development, Cognition: Learning, Thinking & Problem Solving
Research Areas: Adult learning and cognition, reading comprehension, and effects of text structure and reader strategies on learning from text.
Current Research Projects: Teachers strategies for coping with poorly written middle school texts
Professional Service: Editorial Advisory Board: Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1990-present; Reading Research and Instruction, 1993-1999; American Educational Research Journal 2007-present
Contact Information:
John R. Surber
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201
E-mail: surber@csd.uwm.edu
Office: Enderis 755
Phone: 414-229-5097
