College of Education Experts

The College of Education is proud to acknowledge its faculty and staff as experts in their fields.

John Achrazoglou	john-achrazoglou@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Electronic Portfolios for new teacher assessment Assistive Technologies for learners with disabilities	Trademarked ePortfolio framework Established center for students with physical and cognitive disabilities
Saba Rasheed Ali	saba-ali@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Career Education Programming with rural high schools Islam Psychology	Publications and grants related to career education Numerous presenations on Islam at university, community, and national organizations
Timothy Ansley	timothy-ansley@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Large-scale assessment Standardized achievement testing High school assessment issues Data analysis No Child Left Behind Act	Director, Iowa High School Testing Program Co-author, Iowa Tests of Educational Development Co-author, Iowa Algebra Aptitude Test
Catherine Blando	catherine-blando@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Strategic Planning (trained & certified) Creative Action Planning	Extensive list of references for strategic plans available upon request
Robert Brennan	robert-brennan@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Educational Measurement	Author: Test Equating, Scaling, and Linking (with Michael J. Kolen) Author: Generalizability Theory Career Award from the National Council on Measurement in Education Lindquist Career Award from the American Educational Research Association Editor: 4th edition of Educational Measurement (2006)
Sam Cochran	sam-cochran@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Psychology of men Gender issues in psychology and counseling Depression College Student and Higher Education mental health issues	Author of numerous books and articles Editor of Psychology of Men and Masculinity
Nicholas Colangelo	nicholas-colangelo@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Gifted education Academic acceleration Advanced Placement (AP)	Director, Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education Author of "A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students" Initiated Iowa AP Index and Iowa Online Academy for AP
Laurie Croft	laurie-croft@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Gifted Education, especially curriculum differentiation; Professional Development	Presentations, state, national, and international conferences; Author and co-author, publications in the field of gifted education
Steve Dunbar	steve-dunbar@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Large-scale assessment Standardized achievement testing Standards-based assessment State and Federal Accountability Requirements Statistical methods No Child Left Behind Act	Senior author Iowa Tests of Basic Skills Partner, Center for Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST - UCLA) Board member, National Council on Measurement in Education
Stewart Ehly	stewart-ehly@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Home schooling in Iowa School-based mental health services Educational Mental health services to Native American children	Iowa Department of Education funding of state-wide study of home schooling policy and practice Collaboration with DE and colleagues in the College of Public Health to develop school-based mental health services Co-founder of 7 Feathers foundation to promote services to Native American children in the Great Plains region
Bruce Fehn	bruce-fehn@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
History Education Multimedia History Teaching and Learning African-American and Women's History	Fulbright Scholar Invited lecturer to Australia, New Zealand and Canada Articles in Labor History, Journal of Women's History, Theory and Research in Social Education, Journal for the Association of History and Computing and other Publications
Greg Hamot	gregory-hamot@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Research and Teaching in Civic Education Educational Reform in Post-communist Countries Social Studies Curriculum Development	Editor, Civic Learning for Teacher Education Book Serie Seven International Projects in Civic Education Reform State Director, We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution program for secondary students National and international studies and publications in civic education and social studies
Brian Hand	brian-hand@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Science Education Science Literacy Teaching and Learning in science classrooms	Range of publications Funded grant work involving research and professional development
Lelia Helms	lelia-helms@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Law and Higher Education Public Policy and Policymaking Policy Drafting Politics of Education/Higher Education Legal issues in education for the health sciences	co-author, The Practice of American Public Policymaking, M.E.Sharpe, 2006 An introductory text for graduate and professional students in policy studies annual reviews (15 years) of postsecondary education Case law in The Urban Lawyer the publication the Section on State & Local Government of the American Bar Association
Jo Hendrickson	jo-hendrickson@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Learning disabilities Emotional and Behavioral Disorders Classroom strategies for social and academic development of students	Editor, Behavioral Disorders Author of numerous publications
Malik S. Henfield	malik-henfield@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Academic achievement and African American students Social coping and African American students Talent development and African American students	Numerous national publications and presentations
Ellie Herman	ellen-herman@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Supervision Mentoring	Chair of National Field Directors Forum (ATE) Facilitator of Cooperating Teachers' Workshop
Peter Hlebowitsh	peter-hlebowitsh@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Curriculum Development US School history Educational policy (e.g. NCLB)	International grant work in the area of curriculum development Author of several books on curriculum design, education foundations, curriculum theory
Liz Hollingworth	liz-hollingworth@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
School Curriculum, Assessment, and Education Policy No Child Left Behind Standards-Based Education School Leadership	Faculty appointment with Iowa Testing Programs and Educational Administration Academic Papers and Presentations can be viewed at: www.myweb.uiowa.edu/hollingw/
Mitchell Kelly	mitchell-kelly@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Motivation and teaching methods	James N. Murray Award, given annually to a professor who demonstrates outstanding teaching and assistance to students University of Iowa Carnegie Foundation Teacher of the Year 2006 UI Faculty of the Year Award presented by the fraternity and sorority communities 2007 Collegiate Teaching Award. Dr. Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Hawkeye Wrestling Club Faculty Representative for Recruiting for the Iowa football program
Michael J. Kolen	michael-kolen@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Educational measurement and statistics	Author, Test Equating Methods and Practices (with Robert Brennan) National Council on Measurement in Education Award Fellow, American Psychological Association Editor, Journal of Educational Measurement
William Ming Liu	william-liu@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Social Class, Classism, and Poverty Multicultural Competencies Men and Masculinities	Emerging Young Professional Award, APA Division 45 Researcher of the Year Award, APA Division 51 Collegiate Teaching Award, University of Iowa College of Education Audrey Qualls Commitment to Diversity Award
John Northup	john-northup@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Functional Assessment and Analysis Behavioral Pharmacology (the use of behaviorally active medications with young children	Author of numerous publications Visiting Scientist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2001)
Leslie L. Schrier	leslie-schrier@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Language education policy L2 Teacher Preparation Policy Teacher evaluation Iowa Critical Languages program developer Critical languages in the secondary schools Languages of reference Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian	Past President of ACTFL SIG on Teacher Development Director of Professional Development for Langsource.org PI of Project RELEVANCE Teacher Education Director for the Iowa Critical Language Program Guest Editor and Associate Editor of Hispania, journal of Research for the Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Bonnie S. Sunstein	bonnie-sunstein@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
The Teaching of Writing Teacher Research (Action Research in Classrooms) Fieldwork and Ethnographic Methods Nonfiction Writing Rhetoric and Composition Folklore, Narrative, and Oral History	author, Composing a Culture author/editor, Portfolio Portraits(1992), Assessing Portfolios (1996), The Portfolio Standard(2000) co-author, What Works: A Practical Guide for Teacher Research (2006) co-author, FieldWorking: Reading and Writing Research (3 editions: 1997, 2002, 2007) Chapters and articles in professional journals Woodrow Wilson Foundation "Imagining America" Fellow, 2000 International consultant in teaching writing, field research, and classroom portfolios
John Wadsworth	john-s-wadsworth@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Employment of seniors Employment in retirement Employment of persons with disabilities Writing in non-academic settings	Multiple national and international presentations and publications
John Westefeld	john-westefeld@uiowa.edu
Areas of Expertise	Achievement
Suicide Severe Weather Phobia	Publications, presentations, awards for comprehensive review article about suicide