PHILOSOPHY
In both my professional and personal life there are two characteristics I value in others and strive to express myself: I want to be aware and I want to act responsibly.  Although I am not a philosopher, I think of  "awareness" as a prerequisite for "responsible action."

Since research is a means of developing knowledge, I am very excited about being able to play a role in training others to design studies, analyze data, and critique empirical studies conducted by others.  In essence, I see my job as one of providing students with tools they can use to increase their own awareness.  As a result, I hope they will then be in a more informed position to make decisions affecting themselves and others.What particularly pleases me is when students are not only able to appropriately apply these tools in generating research findings, but when their knowledge of these tools helps shape the manner in which their problems are conceptualized.

REASERACH INTERESTS

• Educational and Psychological Measurement
• Mathematics Education
• Educational Research Design and Methodology

• EDUC 201    Techniques of Research
• EDUC 202    Statistical Thinking and Communication
• EDUC 325    Quantitative Research Design and Methods
• EDUC 326    Applied Multiple Regression
• EDUC 352    Applied Inquiry I

• Authored / Co-Authored Professional Publications ( over one dozen)
• Authored / Co-Authored Professional Conference Presentations (over three dozen)
• Chaired Doctoral Student Dissertation Committees to successful completion (over a dozen)
• Assisted as Committee Member on Doctoral Student Dissertation Committees to successful completion (over four dozen)
• Online Teaching Certificate Foundation Course (Online Learning Consortium, 2019)
• Award of Mastery:  Blended Learning Mastery Series (Online Learning Consortium, 2013)
• Co-Author of several multi-year teacher professional development project grant proposals (totaling over $3.5 million) all of which were funded through the California Department of Education (CDE) and/or the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC).
• Program Evaluation Reports prepared for the CDE and CPEC based on my work as the evaluation research director/program evaluator
• Spencer Dissertation-Year Fellow (1991-1992)
• Educational Testing Service Pre-Doctoral Fellow (1986)