Faculty for the Educational Psychology Division at the College of Education: Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas)

Full-time Graduate Faculty

*Faculty Name*	*Degree and Institution*	*Research Interests*
Hansel Burley Email Dr. Burley	Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction 1993, Texas A & M University	College remediation, Achievement testing, Community colleges, Diversity.
Lee S. Duemer Program Coordinator Email Dr. Duemer	Ph.D. Social, Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education 1996, University of Pittsburgh	History of education, Relationship of armed forces and society, Educational desegregation.
Helenrose Fives Email Dr. Fives	Ph.D. Human Development 2003, University of Maryland	My research focuses on the intersection of teacher beliefs and practices. With an emphasis on understanding the interrelationship between teachers' beliefs (specifically efficacy, knowledge, and ability beliefs) and the process of teaching and learning to teach. Additionally, I am interested in developing a better understanding of the teaching learning process with particular focus on the teaching as persuasion metaphor.
William Y. Lan Email Dr. Lan	Ph.D. Educational Psychology 1990, University of Iowa	Learning and motivation; self-regulation in Education.
Arturo Olivárez, Jr. Email Dr. Olivarez	Ph.D. Educational Psychology 1991, Texas A&M University	Univariate and multivariate statistics, educational and psychological measurement.
Kamau Oginga Siwatu Email Dr. Siwatu	Ph.D. Educational Psychology 2005, University of Nebraska-Lincoln	My research focuses on preparing preservice teachers to teach in diverse learning environments. Within this general area of interest, I have two related lines of research. My primary research area, from which my dissertation stems, involves examining preservice and inservice teachers' culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy and outcome expectancy beliefs and the factors that influence these beliefs. A second area of research involves identifying and exploring the factors that mediate teachers' knowledge of culturally responsive teaching and the implementation of these practices in their classroom.
Tara Stevens Email Dr. Stevens	Ed.D., Educational Psychology 2000, Texas Tech University	The development of self-perceptions and the relationship between self-perceptions and adjustment as well as academic variables. The relationships between self-efficacy, interest, and motivation and their development across ethnicity.
Mary K. Tallent-Runnels Email Dr. Runnels	Ph.D. Educational Psychology 1985, Texas A&M University	Aspects of giftedness; problem solving; learning/study strategies.
Janet White Email Dr. White	Ph.D., The University of Oklahoma	Links among cognition, motivation, and social process and the influences on achievement; adolescent development; at risk students.