Research Associate Professor, University of Oregon
I am a Research Associate Professor in the College of Education at the University of Oregon. I earned a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 2008.
My area of interest is the impact of relationships on youth development, including family functioning, teacher-student relationships, and peer relations. My current focus is the impact of small-group instruction (i.e., cooperative or peer learning) on positive peer relations, and subsequent cascading effects on student engagement, behavior, mental health. My goal is to develop scalable technology to support teachers in delivering small-group instruction with fidelity to best practices, and to assess the impact of large-scale implementation of this technology on both students and teachers.