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
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- Trademarked ePortfolio framework
- Established center for students with physical and cognitive disabilities
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| Noga Admon |
noga-admon@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Hispanic students in higher education
- Community colleges
- minority access to higher education
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- 2007 Commendation Honors Award from the AERA for her dissertation, "Hispanic Students and the Decision to Attend a Community College"
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| Saba Rasheed Ali |
saba-ali@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Career Education Programming with rural high schools
- Islam
- Psychology
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- Publications and grants related to career education
- Numerous presenations on Islam at university, community, and national organizations
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| Timothy Ansley |
timothy-ansley@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
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- Director, Iowa High School Testing Program
- Co-author, Iowa Tests of Educational Development
- Co-author, Iowa Algebra Aptitude Test
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| Larry Bartlett |
larry-bartlett@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Special Education Law (preK-12)
- Education Law (preK-12)
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- Administrative Law Judge in Iowa for special education disputes and school administrator terminations.
- Hearing Officer in special educaion disputes for the Bureau of Indian Education, U.S. Department of the Interior
- Holds both a Juris Doctorate(J.D.) in law and a Doctor of Philosophy(Ph.D.)in Educational Administration
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| Catherine Blando |
catherine-blando@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Strategic Planning (trained & certified)
- Creative Action Planning
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- Extensive list of references for strategic plans available upon request
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| Robert Brennan |
robert-brennan@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
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- 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)
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| 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
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- Author of numerous books and articles
- Editor of Psychology of Men and Masculinity
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| Don Coffman |
don-coffman@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Instrumental Music Education
- Adult Education
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- Founder and Director, Iowa City New Horizons Band
- University of Iowa President's Award for State Outreach and Public Engagement
- State of Iowa Governor's Volunteer Award
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| Nicholas Colangelo |
nicholas-colangelo@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Gifted education
- Academic acceleration
- Advanced Placement (AP)
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- 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
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| Laurie Croft |
laurie-croft@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Gifted Education, especially curriculum differentiation;
- Professional Development
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- Presentations, state, national, and international conferences;
- Author and co-author, publications in the field of gifted education
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| Anne DiPardo |
anne-dipardo@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Reading/writing research and pedagogy (esp. grades 7-12)
- Teachers' professional lives
- School change
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- Editor, Research in the Teaching of English
- Recipient of the Richard Meade Award, National Council of Teachers of English (2000)
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| 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
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- 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
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| 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
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- 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
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| Bruce Fehn |
bruce-fehn@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- History Education
- Multimedia History Teaching and Learning
- African-American and Women's History
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- 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
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| David A. Frisbie |
dfrisbie@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Educational measurement and assessment
- Achievement testing
- Use of the Iowa Tests
- No Child Left Behind Act implementation
- Assessing students with special needs
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- Director, Iowa Statewide Testing Program
- Co-author, Iowa Tests of Basic Skills
- Author of numerous publications on test development and use, score interpretation
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| 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
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- 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
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| Brian Hand |
brian-hand@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Science Education
- Science Literacy
- Teaching and Learning in science classrooms
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- Range of publications
- Funded grant work involving research and professional development
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| Dennis C. Harper |
dennis-harper@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- College programs for students with disabilities
- Development and learning disorders in youth
- Attitudes toward disability
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- Director, R.E.A.C.H. Program
- Regents Faculty Award for Faculty Excellence
- APA Distinguished Service Award in Pediatric Psychology
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| 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
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- 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
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| 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
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- Editor, Behavioral Disorders
- Author of numerous publications
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| 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
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- Numerous national publications and presentations
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| Ellie Herman |
ellen-herman@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
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- Chair of National Field Directors Forum (ATE)
- Facilitator of Cooperating Teachers' Workshop
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| Peter Hlebowitsh |
peter-hlebowitsh@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Curriculum Development
- US School history
- Educational policy (e.g. NCLB)
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- International grant work in the area of curriculum development
- Author of several books on curriculum design, education foundations, curriculum theory
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| 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
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- Faculty appointment with Iowa Testing Programs and Educational Administration
- Academic Papers and Presentations can be viewed at: www.myweb.uiowa.edu/hollingw/
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| Nancy Ewald Jackson |
nancy-jackson@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- reading acquisition
- individual differences in adults' reading
- second-language reading
- writing systems and reading processes
- precocious reading
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- Co-author, Routes to Reading Success and Failure: Toward an Integrated Cognitive Psychology of Atypical Reading
- Co-author, Reading with Young Children
- Co-author, Gifted Young Children
- Author of numerous journal publications
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| Mitchell Kelly |
mitchell-kelly@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Motivation and teaching methods
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- 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
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| Michael J. Kolen |
michael-kolen@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Educational measurement and statistics
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- 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
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| William Ming Liu |
william-liu@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Social Class, Classism, and Poverty
- Multicultural Competencies
- Men and Masculinities
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- 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
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| Steve McGuire |
s-mcguire@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Art
- Art Education
- Storytelling performance
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- President, Seminar for Research in Art Education, National Art Education Association
- CD: Completing Stories
- DVD: On the American Discovery Trail: Iowa Route (2004)
- DVD: The Poetics of Endurance (forthcoming)
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| 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
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- Author of numerous publications
- Visiting Scientist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2001)
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| 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
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- 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
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| 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
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- 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
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| Rahima Wade |
rahima-wade@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Community service-learning
- Social Justice education
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- Author of numerous books and articles
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| 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
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- Multiple national and international presentations and publications
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| John Westefeld |
john-westefeld@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Suicide
- Severe Weather Phobia
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- Publications, presentations, awards for comprehensive review article about suicide
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| Rachel Williams |
rachel-williams@uiowa.edu |
| Areas of Expertise |
Achievement |
- Art, Art Education, collaborative Art Education
- Arts-based Programming and Evaluation (qualitative)
- Women in prison
- Women and art
- Fused Glass
- Painting
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- Editor, Teaching the Arts Behind Bars
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