departments & programs academic departments curriculum & instruction graduate doctorate concentrations Concentration: Business and Marketing Education
Dr. Terry O'Brien ( terry_obrien@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: business & marketing education; personality types and cognitive styles; academic achievement; psychometrics
Concentration: Curriculum Development and Supervision
Dr. Alan Reiman ( alan_reiman@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: teacher reflective, conceptual, and moral/ethical judgment and actions; new teacher perceptions of success; theory and practice of assistance for teachers across the career continuum
Concentration : Educational Psychology
Dr. Jason Osborne ( jwosbor2@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: best practices in quantitative methods; evaluation
Dr. Jessica DeCuir-Gunby ( jessica_decuir@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: racial identity; critical race theory; academic achievement; emotions; motivation; mixed methods research
Dr. John Nietfeld ( john_nietfeld@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: metacognition; self-regulation; interventions for reading comprehension
Dr. Ellen Vasu ( ellen_vasu@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: technology assessment; distance education; technology integration; research methods and evaluation
Concentration: Elementary Education, Grades 4-6
Dr. Patricia Marshall ( patricia_marshall@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: Scholarly interests: impact of culture (i.e. race, ethnicity, class) on the teaching-learning process; teacher development and influence of culture on early number knowledge teaching and conceptual development
Concentration: English and Language Arts Education
Dr. Ruie Pritchard ( ruie_pritchard@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: teaching English in secondary schools; teaching writing in all content areas and grade levels; use of writing as a learning tool; professional development of veteran teachers; relation of school and district organization to student achievement
Concentration : Instructional Technology
Dr. Lori Holcomb ( lori_holcomb@ncsu.edu )
Scholarly interests: instructional technology; distance education; technology integration; research methods & evaluation; assessment
Dr. Kevin Oliver ( kevin_oliver@ncsu.edu )
Scholarly interests: the application of instructional design and learning theory to the design; testing of student cognitive tools in support of underlying information processing and thinking skills, also, supporting Web-based teaching strategies with online tools and learning objects
Dr. Ellen Vasu ( ellen_vasu@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: technology assessment; distance education; technology integration; research methods and evaluation
Concentration : Middle Grades Education
Dr. Candy Beal ( candy_beal@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: middle grades; development theory pertaining to early adolescents; curriculum integration/curriculum development; global studies regarding education in other countries; diversity-gender issues; integration of community into classroom to provide a sense of place
Dr.John Lee (john_lee@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: social studies and technology; teacher education; pedagogical content
knowledge; digital history; discourse and social networking
Dr. Carol Pope ( carol_pope@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: middle grades teacher preparation; technology & literacy in middle grades; young adult literature; writing/writing to learn
Dr. Carl Young (carl_young@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: technology integration in the English language arts classroom; inquiry-based learning applications; content area reading and writing strategies; responding effectively to student writing; critical literacy; media literacy and popular culture; teaching English in rural and inner-city schools
Concentration: Reading (Literacy) Education
Dr. Barbara Fox ( barbara_fox@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: issues in the antecedents of literary development in the early years
Dr. Hiller Spires ( hiller_spires@ncsu.edu )
Scholarly interests: literacy & technology; cognitive and socio-cognitive aspects of reading
Concentration: Social Studies Education
TBA
Concentration: Special Education
Dr. Cathy Crossland ( cathy_crossland@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: issues in the assessment of learning disorders
Dr. Douglas Cullinan ( douglas_cullinan@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: preparing teachers of students with behavior and emotional disabilities; nature of, assessment of, and intervention for emotional and behavior disorders of children and adolescents
Dr. Susan Osborne ( susan_osborne@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: learning disabilities; attention disorders
Dr. Edward Sabornie ( edward_sabornie@ncsu.edu)
Scholarly interests: high-incidence disabilities (mild intellectual disability, learning disability, behavioral-emotional disability); secondary-level instructional issues in special education; social skills training in special education; cross-categorical issues in special education
General Information
Department Leadership and Staff
Dr. Ellen S. Vasu, Department Head, ellen_vasu@ncsu.edu
Dr. Raymond Ting, Assistant Department Head,raymond_ting@ncsu.edu
Ms. Irene M. Armstrong , Graduate Secretary, 515-1772, Poe 602
Ms. Chris Terwilliger , Accounting Technician, 515-1774, Poe 602
Ms. Krisztina Hovanyi , Accounting Clerk, 513-7518, Poe 602
Ms. Pauline Ellefson , Program Assistant in Counselor Education, 515-6299, Poe 520
last updated 12/18/07
