Find an Expert
Faculty and academic researchers of the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies have expertise in a wide-ranging number of issues and subjects, including the list below. To arrange an interview with a faculty expert or for more information, please contact Kathy Wyer.
- Academic English
- English vocabulary, grammar, and other features required for comprehending concepts and skills essential for school learning; comparison to everyday English; acquisition; assessment.
- Accountability
- Expectation that individuals or institutions achieve specified outcomes; accountability systems; uses of accountability measures and systems; assessment; institutional accountability.
- Achievement
- Acquisition of new knowledge or skill in any area; factors affecting achievement; achievement motivation; assessment.
- Administration
- Leadership, management, and operation of education and information units and institutions; financing and budgets; role in reform; models; administrator preparation and professional development; policy.
- Affirmative Action
- Policies and initiatives to redress inequality often due to historical discrimination; increasing underrepresented groups’ access to educational, informational, technological, and other opportunities; policy and law.
- Aggression, Abuse, Violence, Bullying
- Physical and verbal behavior that is hurtful, coercive, or otherwise negative; causes and consequences; decreasing the negative behavior and its consequences; creating safe environments.
- Archives
- Repositories of a culture’s unique documents, records, and other texts in all media and formats; recordkeeping; information as evidence; design and evaluation of cultural information systems; roles of technology; policy; history.
- Artists' Books
- Knowledge of this specialized subset of unique works of art created in the book format, including works from the Arts and Crafts movement, the early avant-garde, fine press, mid-century conceptual art and pop, activist and feminist work, zines, graphic novels, and contemporary book arts across all genres.
- Assessment
- Measurement of an individual, institution, or system in areas for which goals may be set (e.g., knowledge and skills of K-12 students); reliability and validity; use for goal setting, planning, and evaluation; theories.
- Attachment
- Affective ties, typically of an infant or child to an adult (e.g., parent, caretaker); development; types; consequences of attachment; attachment models.
- Atypical Development
- Childhood developmental disorders, including autism, Asperger's syndrome, attention deficit disorder (ADD), anxiety, and others; interventions to improve functioning and development.
- Cognitive Development
- Change in information processing, perception, language, memory, problem solving, metacognition, and the like associated with development, experience, and education; theories and implications for education; assessment.
- Comparative and International Education
- Primary, secondary, and higher education outside the United States focusing on individual countries or on cross country comparisons.
- Digital Humanities
- Intersections of digital technology and traditional humanities or social sciences research for purposes of analysis, pedagogy, repository development, data mining, curation, visualization, mapping, and/or simulation.
- Diversity
- Variation based on such factors as race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, and exceptionality; enhancing diversity; teaching diverse K-12 and college students; consequences of participation in diverse groups.
- Early Education
- Programs, strategies, and policies geared toward the education, care, and well-being of children from birth to age eight.
- Education Policy and Law
- School finance; student financial aid; civil rights; English language learners; charter schools; per pupil funding; teacher evaluation; No Child Left Behind; Race to the Top; other issues of K-12/higher education policy and law.
- Educational Psychology
- Psychological principles that apply to teaching and learning and technology use in education.
- Educational Reform
- Change directed at improving K-12 and higher education systems and student outcomes; organizational reform; curriculum reform; No Child Left Behind; Race to the Top; Higher Education Act; effectiveness.
- Elementary Education
- Teaching, learning, curriculum, and psychosocial development for elementary school students; transformation of elementary schools including charter and alternative schools.
- Emotion
- Experience and expression of feelings; recognition of emotions; management of emotions; affect; empathy; personality; motivation; role in learning, memory, and cognition; measurement.
- English Language Learners
- Methods for acquiring English; home language use and development; bilingualism; multi-literacy; instructional strategies for students not yet competent in English; dual language programs; assessment; policy and law.
- Equity
- Fairness in education and library/information endeavors and settings; promotion of equity; policy and law.
- Ethnic Issues
- Similarities and differences associated with ethnicity; identity; curricula to build understanding; library collections and services; educational opportunities and outcomes; instructional practices for ethnically diverse students.
- Evaluation
- Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of education and library/information programs and policies to improve effectiveness and guide funding and replication; theories; methods.
- Gender Issues
- Similarities and differences associated with gender; stereotypes, discrimination, and inequities based on gender; extending opportunities to both genders; STEM; policy and law.
- Higher Education
- Community colleges, colleges, and universities in the U.S. and elsewhere; access and equity; student affairs; diversity and its effects; STEM; leadership; transformation; financing; organizational structures; policy.
- History of Education
- Description and analysis of past events, practices, laws, individuals, and the like related to education, particularly in the U.S., and education’s effects on individuals and society; relevance to the present and future.
- History of Library and Information Studies
- Description and analysis of past events, practices, laws, individuals, and the like related to libraries, particularly in the U.S., and library’s effects on individuals and society; relevance to the present and future.
- History of Media
- The development of media forms and formats, technologies of communication, institutions and politics of communication, theories of aesthetics and rhetoric of media including writing, newspapers,photography, telephone, telegraph, radio, film, television, and the internet.
- History of the Book
- Study in the development of writing, publishing, libraries, and literacy technologies from the invention of cuneiform to the spread of networked technologies of publication and communication.
- Immigrants and Immigration
- Education of immigrant-origin youth and adults; undocumented students; child translators; library collections and services; technology; participation in education and library/information institutions.
- Information Policy and Law
- Censorship; intellectual property rights; information as evidence; privacy; security; data retention; subject access; other issues of information policy and law.
- Information Seeking Behavior
- Information acquisition and use; information literacy; human-computer interaction; database design and management.
- Information Visualization
- Theoretical and applied study of information in graphical and visual expression, including historical and critical analysis of visual methods and formats.
- Internet Culture
- Impact of the Internet on society; virtual communication; interactive information sharing; the digital divide; school uses of technology; problems of cyberspace.
- Language
- Understanding of and ability to use language; language acquisition and development; classroom discourse; social empowerment; assessment.
- Language Arts Education
- Teaching and learning English, reading, writing, and other language arts subject matter, including curriculum, tools/technology, and methods; addressing diversity and multiculturalism; assessment.
- Leadership
- Engaging others in achieving goals in library/information and education settings; types; models; leader preparation and professional development; instructional leaders; outcomes.
- Learning
- Changes in knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and mental/behavioral skills; theories and their implications for practice; assessment.
- Library Studies
- Teaching and learning about public and academic libraries, library management, theory, archives, information systems, and information policy; library and information science.
- Literacy & Literature
- Use and creation of textual and other material, including curriculum, tools/technology, and methods; information, visual, critical, and other literacies; youth literature; addressing diversity and multiculturalism; assessment.
- Mathematics Education
- Teaching and learning of mathematics subject matter, including curriculum, tools/technology, and methods; addressing diversity and multiculturalism; mathematical thinking in young children; assessment.
- Media & Technology
- Roles and uses in education and information endeavors; philosophical and critical analyses; societal effects, including access to information, metadata schemes and structures, learning, social networks, attitudes, skills, and sociopolitical organization.
- Multicultural Education
- Teaching and learning with and for students from diverse backgrounds; developing the capacity to participate in a multicultural society; benefits accruing from learning about and in diverse communities.
- Preservation
- Maintenance and protection of paper and electronic material, manuscripts, still and moving images; recordkeeping; policy.
- Professional Development
- Preparation, initiation, retention, and further development of professionals in education and information settings (e.g., teachers, librarians, archivists, principals).
- Reading
- Teaching and learning to decode, comprehend, and encode text and non-text representations, including curriculum, tools/technology, and methods; addressing diversity and multiculturalism; assessment.
- Research Methods
- Quantitative and qualitative approaches to understanding phenomena and increasing knowledge, including such topics as design, methods, measurement, data collection, field work, statistics, and reports.
- Science Education
- Teaching and learning of science subject matter, including curriculum, tools/technology, and methods; addressing diversity and multiculturalism; student inquiry; assessment.
- Secondary Education
- Teaching, learning, curriculum, and psychosocial development for middle and high school students; transformation of secondary schools including charter and alternative schools.
- Social Studies Education
- Teaching and learning of history, geography, civics, and other social studies subject matter, including curriculum, tools/technology, and methods; addressing diversity and multiculturalism; assessment.
- Special Collections
- Work in the area of rare books, manuscripts, and archives that are unique or require special handling or restricted use or care, and training the pedagogy of curation, programming, outreach, and management of special collections materials.
- Special Education
- Teaching and learning of children with special needs such as autism, anxiety, attention deficit disorder, and emotional disorders; inclusion of atypical with typical students in the classroom.
- Statistics
- Quantitative methods such as hierarchical models, applied Bayesian inference, multi-level models, latent variable modeling, and longitudinal analyses.
- STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
- Approaches to teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); disparities by gender, race/ethnicity, and other factors in participation in STEM studies and careers, their causes, and ways to mitigate them.
- Teaching
- Approaches to promoting learning in and out of traditional PreK-12 and postsecondary settings; K-12 teacher education; pathways to teaching; professional development for PreK-12, postsecondary, and other teachers.
- Testing
- Techniques to measure achievement, interests, remediation needs, motivations, and the like; reliability and validity; use of test results.
