University of Delaware Graduate Catalog 1995-1996 College of Education Department of Educational Studies Faculty in the Graduate Program Jan H. Blits, Ph.D. (New School for Social Research), Professor; also Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Science: Philosophy and politics of education. James Crouse, Ph.D. (Northwestern), Professor; also Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Ars and Science: Sociology of education, social and economic stratification. Roberta M. Golinkoff, Ph.D. (Cornell), Professor; also Professor, Department of Psychology and Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Science: Language acquisition, communication development, cognitive development, and psychology of reading. Linda Gottfredson, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), Professor: Educational policy, societal consequences of IQ differences, career development, occupational structure, differences in education and employment by race, sex, and physical handicap. Frank B. Murray, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Educational Psychology; also Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Science: Cognitive development, developmental theory, reading, and mathematics. Daniel C. Neale, Ph.D. (Minnesota), Professor Emeritus: Teacher effectiveness and teacher education. James Raths, Ph.D. (New York University), Professor and Chair of Educational Studies: Teacher education, evaluation of educational programs. Richard L. Venezky, Ph.D. (Stanford), Unidel Professor of Educational Studies; also Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, College of Arts and Science: Reading processes, assessment, history of literacy, and computers in education. George G. Bear, Ph.D. (Virginia), Associate Professor: School psychology, sociomoral development and education. Albert R. Cavalier, Ph.D. (Alabama), Associate Professor: Cognitive psychology, assistive technology, and educational technology and human factors. James E. Davis, Ph.D. (Cornell), Associate Professor: Evaluation research and policy analysis. Ralph P. Ferretti, Ph.D. (Alabama), Associate Professor; also Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Science: Cognitive psychology, cognitive development and disabilities, problem solving, instruction, and special educational technology. Joseph J. Glutting, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), Associate Professor: School psychology, psychoeducational assessment, and educational measurement. Robert Hampel, Ph.D. (Cornell), Associate Professor: History of education and contemporary educational policy. Gabriella Hermon, Ph.D. (Illinois), Associate Professor; also Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Science: First and second language acquisition and the principles and parameters framework, syntactic theory, language processing, and text analysis of problems of reading. Jaana Juvonen, Ph.D. (California), Associate Professor: Motivation, social cognition, attribution theory, peer relations, and reactions toward stigmatized and classroom interactions. David W. Kaplan, Ph.D. (California, Los Angeles), Associate Professor: Educational statistics, factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. Paul G. LeMahieu, Ph.D. (Pittsburgh), Associate Professor; also Director, Delaware Education Research and Development Center: Education research methodology, statistical analysis, evaluation, and measurement. Charles D. Marler, Ph.D. (Stanford), Associate Professor; also Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Arts and Science: Philosophy of education. Victor R. Martuza, Ph.D. (Maryland), Associate Professor: Measurement and evaluation, education and development, content of education, and statistical graphics. Charles MacArthur, Ph.D. (American University), Associate Professor: Special education, reading and writing skills for LD students, vocational assessment of children. Ludwig Mosberg, Ph.D. (California, Los Angeles), Associate Professor: Language comprehension, learning from prose, and memory. Ratna Nandakumar, Ph.D. (Illinois), Associate Professor: Educational statistics and psychometrics. Cynthia M. Okolo, Ph.D. (Indiana), Associate Professor: Computer-assisted instruction, achievement motivation, and learning handicaps. Robert J. Taggart, Ph.D. (Michigan), Associate Professor: History of education. Ronald J. Vukelich, Ph.D. (Southern Illinois), Associate Professor: Special education, testing procedures for exceptional children, and assessment of learning in museum settings. Elaine B. Coleman, Ph.D. (University of Toronto-OISE), Assistant Professor: Applied cognitive science, science learning, collaborative learning environments, belief revision. Nancy C. Jordan, Ph.D. (Harvard), Assistant Professor: Reading, language and learning disabilities. Kathleen Minke, Ph.D. (Indiana), Assistant Professor: Birth-to-three intervention for children with disabilities and at-risk children, professional-parent relationships, and school psychology training issues. Anastasia Morrone, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin), Assistant Professor: Learning, cognition and instruction. Harleen Vickers, Ph.D. (Delaware), Assistant Professor: Ecological/systemic perspective of home/school interface at elementary school level and parent/teacher effectiveness in working together to help children succeed academically, socially, and behaviorally.