Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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James Allison

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Small-scale societies of the southwest
- Quantitative Methods
- Ceramic Analysis
- Archaeological Theory

Jaime Bartlett

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
870 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropology
- Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
- Archaeology

Donald Baum

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Educational Leadership and Foundations
306E MCKB

Research Interests:
- Private schooling markets
- Low-cost private schools
- State regulation of private schools
- School vouchers
- Charter schools
- Early childhood education

David Boren

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Educational Leadership and Foundations
306J MCKB

Research Interests:
- Organizational and Individual trust
- Leader preparation and development
- Well-being in schools
- Professional learning communities
- Distributed leadership
- Leading deep learning

Bryan Bowles

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Educational Leadership and Foundations
306F MCKB

Research Interests:
- School superintendence -- issues of leadership
- Teacher evaluation
- Recruitment, hiring and retention of school personnel
- Gender issues in hiring
- Socialization theory

Isaac Calvert

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Educational Leadership and Foundations
306R MCKB

Research Interests:
- Teaching and learning
- Multicultural education
- Religious attitude toward teaching and learning

Zachary Chase

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Andes

John E. Clark

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
876 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

David Crandall

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- African Folktales
- Himba Flora Taxonomy and Herbal Medicines
- Africa
- Human Moral Knowledge

Randall Davies

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Instructional Psychology and Technology
150L MCKB

Research Interests:
- Educational evaluation and assessment
- Instructional technology
- Technology integration
- Data mining and learning analytics
- Improving teaching and learning

Heidi Erickson

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Educational Leadership and Foundations

Research Interests:
- Education policy
- Arts education
- School choice
- Education finance

Cynthia S. Finlayson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Archaeological excavation
- Cultural heritage site development
- Syria and Jordan

Macleans A. Geo-JaJa

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Educational Leadership and Foundations
306P MCKB

Research Interests:
- Rights in education
- Development aid
- Education and globalization
- Culture and rights

Charles R Graham

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Instructional Psychology and Technology
150C MCKB

Research Interests:
- Blended learning
- Online learning
- Digital learning
- Learner or student engagement
- Educational or instructional technology
- Instructional technology

Pamela Hallam

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Educational Leadership and Foundations
306M MCKB

Research Interests:
- Trust and leadership
- Professional learning communities
- Educational change or reform

Jacob R. Hickman

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
860 KMBL

Research Interests;
- How the processes of migration, displacement, and diaspora affect a host of cultural and psychological phenomena
- Transnational ethnographic fieldwork with Hmong communities in both southeast Asia and the west
- Religion, ritual practice, family life, moral thinking, and personhood
- Religious dynamics that are emerging in the Hmong diaspora, which include messianic movements, new forms of transnational ritual networks, and changing religious ideologies and practices
- Comparative fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, the United States, and other areas where the Hmong have resettled

Sterling Clint Hilton

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Educational Leadership and Foundations
306G MCKB

Research Interests:
- Mathematics and statistics education
- Professional development

David J. Johnson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
892 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Cultures associated with the Red Sea area and their involvement in long distance trade from the earliest period through the Islamic Period
- Effects of long distance trade contacts on religious ideology and social organization

Royce Kimmons

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Instructional Psychology and Technology
150J MCKB

Research Interests:
- Digital participation divides
- Social media
- Open education
- Classroom technology use

Ross Larsen

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Instructional Psychology and Technology
150F MCKB

Research Interests:
- Methodological social science issues
- Comprehensive structural equation modeling
- Data analysis
- Theory validation

Heather Leary

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Instructional Psychology and Technology
150G MCKB

Research Interests:
- Teacher professional learning
- Technology integration
- Problem-based learning
- Curriculum adaptations
- STEM + arts education (STEAM)
- 21st century skills and literacy
- Problems of practice
- Design-based research
- Research-practice partnerships
- Meta-analysis and Meta-synthesis

Jason McDonald

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Instructional Psychology and Technology
150E MCKB

Research Interests:
- Instructional or educational design
- Technology mediated education
- Online learning
- Design thought process and creativity

Charles W. Nuckolls

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropological studies of causal thinking and explanation in India
- Nationalism in Japan
- Psychiatric classification and diagnosis in the U.S. and New Zealand.

Michael A. Owens

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Educational Leadership and Foundations
306D MCKB

Research Interests:
- Constituent engagement in American and international educational organizations

Peter Jacob Rich

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Instructional Psychology and Technology
150K MCKB

Research Interests:
- Computational thinking
- Game-based design and learning
- Education improvement
- STEM education

Michael T. Searcy

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Social processes associated with the Viejo (AD 700-1200) and Medio Periods (AD 1200-1450) of the Casas Grandes tradition, which flourished in the northwestern portion of modern-day Chihuahua, Mexico
- Causes linked to transitions in sociopolitical organization and structural transformations
- Long-distance interaction
- Iconographical analysis
- Ground stone analysis
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Fremont archaeology

Richard R. Sudweeks

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Instructional Psychology and Technology
150M MCKB

Research Interests:
- Methodological issues in factor analysis
- Structural equation modeling
- Psychological constructs
- Reliability and validity of assessment scales

Gregory Thompson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
880 KMBL

Research Interests:
- The intersection of anthropology, language, education, and communication with a broad focus on the mediating role of cultural contexts in human interaction
- Discourse analytic methods drawn from linguistic anthropology
- Micro-cultural contexts
- Motivation and engagement
- Psychological anthropology
- How education and learning are accomplished in actual teaching/learning interactions
- American cultural contexts
- African-American settings
- American cultural meanings of race and class

Spencer Weiler

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Educational Leadership and Foundations
306B MCKB

Research Interests:
- School finance litigation
- Public education funding
- Administrators' responses to outlier situations
- School safety
- School facilities

Stephen C. Yanchar

College: McKay School of Education
Department: Instructional Psychology and Technology
150D MCKB

Research Interests:
- Agency in education
- Design practices
- Qualitative research methods