Expertise

His research focuses in three broad areas: social justice and equity in education, motivation in education, and educational research methodology.

His work also emphasizes the role of race and racism, understanding most oppressive experiences in education as the end product of white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy. In motivation in education, his work focuses on time-related academic behavior (e.g., procrastination and timely engagement) and expectancy-value theory.

Subject Categories

  • Education & Educational Research Psychology Social Issues Sport Sciences Religion

Keywords

  • Motivation, Equity, Quantitative, LGBTQ, Queer, Regression, Confirmatory factor analysis, Measurement, Classical test theory, Kamden Strunk

 

Affiliations

Director, Research Initiative on Social Justice and Equity
2013

Women's and Gender Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University

Communities
Educational Leadership
Degrees
PhD, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Educational Psychology, 2012
MS, Evangel University, Springfield, Psychology, 2009
BA, Evangel University, Springfield, Psychology, Biblical Studies, and Biblical Languages, 2007
Keywords
social justice education educational tests & measurements learning motivation higher education lgbt queer
Associations
American Educational Research Association
American Psychological Association