My research considers secondary schools as a context for social and psychological development among adolescents. Specific areas of interest include the development of gifted and talented students and civic development of all adolescents. I use multilevel and complex-sample quantitative methodologies to address these interests using large-scale survey data.
Recent Publications
Zhang, T.,Torney-Purta, J., & Barber, C. (In press). Students’ conceptual knowledge and process skills in civic education: Identification of profiles and classroom correlates. Theory and Research in Social Education.
Barber, C., & Torney-Purta, J. (in press). International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA): Civic Education Study of 1999. In A. Michalos (Ed.), Encyclopedia of quality of life research. Springer.
Barber, C., & Mueller, C. T.(2011). Social and self perceptions of adolescents identified as gifted, learning-disabled, and twice-exceptional.Roeper Review.
Hoskins, B., Barber, C., van Nijlen, D., &Villalba, E. (2011). Comparing young peoples' civic competence in Europe: Composite and domain-specific indicators using IEA Civic Education Study data. Comparative Education Review.
Torney-Purta, J., & Barber, C. (2011). Fostering young people’s support for participatory human rights through their developmental niches. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 81(4), 473-481.
Marszalek, J., Barber, C., Kohlhart, J., & Holmes, C. (2011). Sample size in psychological research in the past 30 years. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 112(1), 331-348.
Murdock, N., Marszalek, J., & Barber, C. (2011). A TEG [Teaching Enhancement Grant] incorporated contextual learning opportunities into coursework: Did it impact learning? FaCET (Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching). Available: http://info.umkc.edu/facet/2011/05/26/a-teg-enabled-incorporating-contextual-learning-opportunities-into-coursework-did-it-impact-learning/ 