Patricia A. Alexander

General Research Area:

Text-Based Learning; Domain-Specific Learning; Epistemic Beliefs; The Interplay of Knowledge, Strategies, and Motivation in Academic Development

Honors and Awards:

Outstanding Scholarship Award, College of Education, University of Maryland, 2007

Sylvia Scribner Award, Division C, American Educational Research Association, 2007

E. L. Thorndike Award for Career Achievement in Educational Psychology, Division 15, American Psychological Association, 2006

Oscar S. Causey Award for Outstanding Contributions, National Reading Conference, 2001

Recent Publications:

Alexander, P. A., & Fox, E. (2008). Reading in perspective. In M. J. Fresch (Ed.), An essential history of current reading practices (pp. 12-32). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

Murphy, P. K., Alexander, P. A., Greene, J. A., & Edwards, M. N. (2007). Epistemological threads in the fabric of conceptual change research. In S. Vosniadou, A. Baltas, & X. Vamvakoussi (Eds.) Re-framing the conceptual change approach in learning and instruction (pp. 105-122). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Alexander, P. A. (2007). Bridging the cognitive and sociocultural approaches in conceptual change research: Unnecessary foray or unachievable feat. [Special Issue on "Bridging the cognitive and sociocultural approaches in research on conceptual change”] Educational Psychologist, 42(1), 67-73.

Alexander, P. A., & Winne, P. H. (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of educational psychology (Second edition). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates and Division 15 of the American Psychology Association.

Alexander, P. A. (2006). Psychology in learning and instruction. Columbus, OH: Prentice-Hall.

Alexander, P. A. (2006). Evolution of a learning theory: A case study. Educational Psychologist, 41(4), 257-264..

Alexander, P. A. (2006). What would Dewey say? Channeling Dewey on the issue of the specificity of epistemic beliefs. Educational Psychology Review, 18, 55-65

Professional Activities:

Series Editor, The Psychological Foundations of Teaching and Learning Series, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004-present.

Editor, Instructional Science, 1995-2007

Vice President, Division C American Educational Research Association, 2002-2004.

Editor, Contemporary Educational Psychology

Associate Editor, American Educational Research Journal-Teaching, Learning, and Human Development Member 10 editorial boards

National Assessment of Educational Progress, Reading and Background Variables Committees

Links:

Curriculum Vitae
Alexander Research Lab

Email:

palexand@umd.edu