School of Education
Barber, Carolyn

Carolyn Barber

Assistant Professor

(816) 235-6151

barberce@umkc.edu

Location: 223

Curriculum Vitae

Degrees

Ph.D. (2007) Human Development, Specialization in Educational Psychology,                 University of Maryland

Office Hours

Fall 2009: Tuesdays 3:00-4:00 pm; Wednesdays 12:00-1:00 pm.

Research Interests

Dr. Barber will be accepting new student advisees in the PhD in Counseling Psychology program for the Fall 2010 Semester.

Research Interests:

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.

 

Current Funded Projects:

(Principal Investigator.) Creating classroom-level measures of citizenship education climate. UMKC Faculty Research Grant, funded June-September 2009.

 (Principal Investigator.)Volunteerism as purpose: examining the predictors of long-term service involvement. Stanford Center of Adolescence Youth Purpose Research Award, funded May 2008-October 2009.

 

Recent Publications:

Barber, C., & Torney-Purta, J. (2008). The relation of high-achieving adolescents’ social perceptions and motivation to teachers’ nominations for advanced programs. Journal of Advanced Academics, 19(3), 412-433.
 
Barber, C., & Torney-Purta, J. (2009). Gender differences in political attitudes and efficacy as influenced by national and school contexts: Analysis from the IEA Civic Education Study. In D. Baker & A. Wiseman (Eds.), Gender, equality, and education from international perspectives. (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Volume 10, p. 357-394). Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing.

Classes

Fall 2009:

EDUC-RP 5589HL - Special Topics in Education

EDUC-RP 5608 - Introduction to Graduate Research