Professional
Activities
Co-Editor:
Current Perspectives on Cognition, Learning, and
Instruction, Information Age
(with Gregg Schraw) Publishing, 2006 to present.
Editor:
Educational
Psychology Review, 2006 to present.
Feature
Editor: Educational
Psychology Review,
Research into Practice, 2001 to 2005.
Guest Editor: Special issue of Educational Psychology Review:
Spatial Text Adjuncts, 2002.
Editorial Board Member:
American Educational Research Journal
– Teaching, Learning, & Human Development, 2007 to present.
Educational Technology, Research,
& Development, 2003 to present.
Educational Psychology Review,
2001 to 2005.
Journal of Behavioral Education,
2001 to 2005.
Journal of Experimental Education,
1999 to present.
Research in the Schools, 1999
to present.
Contemporary Educational Psychology,
1998 to present.
Reading Research and Instruction,
1994 to 1999.
Professional
Affiliations (From 2002 to 2005 I was not affiliated
with any professional organization)
American
Educational Research
Association, 1990 – 2002
AERA Special Interest Group - Studying and Self-Directed Learning, 1994
– 1998
AERA Special Interest Group - Teaching Educational Psychology, 1994,
1995
AERA Special Interest Group - Text, Technology, and Learning
Strategies, 1993 – 1998
American Psychological Association, 1990, 2002, 2004, 2008
American Psychological Association Division 15 (Educational
Psychology), 1995 – 2000
American Psychological Society, 1990 – 1993
College Reading Association, 1994 – 1999
Mid-South Educational Research Association, 1994 – 1997
Midwestern Educational Research Association, 1990 – 1995, 1998
National Consortium for Instruction and Cognition, 1990 – 2000, 2006 to
present
Nebraska Psychological Association, 1991, 1992
Phi Delta Kappa (Mississippi State University Chapter), 1994 – 1996
Southwest Educational Research Association, 2002
Awards
Nominated for the
Richard Snow Award
for Early Contributions, Division 15 (Educational Psychology), APA,
2001, 2002, 2003.
Named as one of
the top 20 most published authors in educational
psychology journals from 1991-1996,
1997-2002, and 1991-2002, Contemporary
Educational Psychology,
1998, 2004.
Kappa Award for
Excellence, Phi Delta Kappa (MSU Chapter), 1997.
Two-time
recipient of the John A. Glover Graduate Student Research
Award, University of Nebraska, 1990, 1991.
Nominated for
the Mississippi State University John Grisham Master
Teacher Award, Fall 1994, and the Graduate-level Teaching Award, Spring
1996.