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Educational Policy & Leadership Studies
N499 Lindquist Center
College of Education
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1529

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• Ph.D. The University of Iowa
• M.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• B.A. St. Ambrose University

• Higher Education

• Paulsen, M. B. & Toutkoushian, R. K. (2008). “Economic Models and Policy Analysis in Higher Education: A Diagrammatic Exposition,” In J. C. Smart (Ed.), Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume. XXIII (pp. 1-48). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
• Paulsen, M. B. & Fatima, N. (2007). “Higher Education and Growth in State Workforce Productivity, 1980-2000: Evidence on the Public Benefits of College Education.” In P. B. Richards (Ed.), Global Issues in Higher Education (pp. 37-56). New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
• Paulsen, M. B., & Feldman, K. A. (2007). The Conditional and Interaction Effects of Epistemological Beliefs on the Self-Regulated Learning of College Students: Cognitive and Behavioral Strategies. Research in Higher Education 48 (3), 353-401.
• Paulsen, M. B., & Toutkoushian, R. K. (2006). “Overview of Economic Concepts, Models and Methods for Institutional Research.” In R. K. Toutkoushian & M. B. Paulsen (Eds.), Applying Economics to Institutional Research. New Directions for Institutional Research No. 132 (pp. 5-24). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Paulsen, M. B., & Toutkoushian, R. K. (2006). “Economics and Institutional Research: Expanding the Connections and Applications.” In R. K. Toutkoushian & M. B. Paulsen (Eds.), Applying Economics to Institutional Research. New Directions for Institutional Research No. 132 (95-104). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Toutkoushian, R. K. & Paulsen, M. B. (Eds.), (2006). Applying Economics to Institutional Research. New Directions for Institutional Research No. 132. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Paulsen, M. B., & Feldman, K.A. (2006). “Exploring the Dimensions of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Analytics for an Emerging Literature.” In J. Braxton (Ed.). Analyzing Faculty Work and Rewards: Using Boyer's Four Domains of Scholarship. New Directions for Institutional Research No. 129 (pp. 21-36). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Paulsen, M. B., & Feldman, K. A. (2005). The Conditional and Interaction Effects of Epistemological Beliefs on the Self-Regulated Learning of College Students: Motivational Strategies. Research in Higher Education 46 (7), 731-768.
• St. John, E. P., Paulsen, M. B., & Carter, D. F. (2005). Diversity, College Costs, and Postsecondary Opportunity: An Examination of the Financial Nexus Between College Choice and Persistence for African Americans and Whites. The Journal of Higher Education 76 (5), 545-569.
• Lohfink, M. M., & Paulsen, M. B. (2005). Comparing the Determinants of Persistence for First-Generation and Continuing-Generation Students. Journal of College Student Development 46 (4), 409-428.
• Fatima, N., & Paulsen, M. B. (2004). Higher Education and State Workforce Productivity in the 1990s. Thought & Action: NEA Higher Education Journal 20 (1), 75-94.

• Economics, Finance & Policy in Higher Education
• Teaching, Learning, Curriculum & Faculty Development in Higher Education
• Student Access, Choice & Persistence in Higher Education
• Cognitive and Social Psychology of College Student Learning

• 07B: 216 Finance in Higher Education
• 07B: 385 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
• 07B: 221 The College Curriculum
• 07B: 222 Introduction to Policy Analysis & Evaluation