Wednesday, 23 April 2008 08:13

Dr. Theresa A. Wadkins, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology in the College of Natural and Social Sciences at the University of Nebraska at Kearney

Dr.Wadkins is an exemplary teacher-scholar at UNK who has made major contributions to instructional creativity in her role as a classroom teacher, mentor of undergraduate research, journal reviewer, and scholar in teaching and learning. Over the past several years Wadkins has mentored more than 40 undergraduate projects, helping students to articulate the initial research idea, conduct the study, analyze the data and prepare the paper for presentation. But perhaps what moves Wadkins to the next level are her innovative endeavors within the realm of teaching, developing unique and highly effective teaching tools. One summer she built an entire course in abnormal psychology completely around popular movies. More recently she developed creative review tools such as Psych Feud and Psych Jeopardy to help students understand some complex psychological concepts. Wadkins is an enthusiastic teacher who has an enviable record of scholarly research on teaching issues, has conducted a number of empirical studies of the teaching/learning process and has been a solid contributor to the scholarly teaching model that characterizes UNK.

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