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John H. Newman, Ph.D. John received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in psychology from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. He earned the Master of Science in Experimental Psychology and Statistics and, with a three-year NIA fellowship, continued for his Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive Psychology, Lifespan Development, and Philosophy of Science from The Pennsylvania State University. For three years, he was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Multivariate Neurocognitive Development Program of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA . He has taught as an Assistant Professor for one year at Kutztown State University of Pennsylvania and for six years at Mount Saint Mary's College and Seminary in Emmitsburg, MD, where he was nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Award of the Society for Teaching of Psychology. At Northwestern University, he headed Research & Evaluation at the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence and taught as a Senior Lecturer in Psychology. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he was Associate Director of the Teaching and Learning Laboratory. Outside of Academia, he held the positions of Principal Evaluator for the seven-state regional education laboratory, McREL, in Denver, CO, and he supervised the Sleep Research Laboratory at Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. He has consulted for Vanderbilt University's academic technology initiative, for Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's research experiences for teachers program, for Bowling Green University's Springboard Project, and for Cherepovets State University in Russia on the democratization of higher education. His research has been funded by the Mellon Foundation, the NSF Engineering Research Centers , and Microsoft Research. Beyond presenting basic research on emerging adulthood and applied work assessing advanced learning technologies, he has been a Keynote and/or Plenary Session speaker for the Friendship Lecture Series in Japan , for the American Association of Higher Education, and for the College Board. His journal articles appear in such diverse publications as American Psychologist, Personality & Individual Differences, Written Communication, Journal of Engineering Education, and Journal of Research in Rural Education. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Educational Research Association, the American Evaluation Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science.
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Scott D. Newman, MSTM Scott received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and a certificate for Environmental Sciences from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA and his Master of Science in Technology Management from the University of Maryland at College Park, MD. His thesis was on the uses of Telecommunications in Distance Education. He has completed advanced coursework in statistical analysis at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and has been certified in Distance Learning Instruction. His background includes positions as: General Manager of Echo Data Services; Research Associate at the Medical College of Pennsylvania; Programmer Analyst and Consultant for the US House of Representatives; Project Manager, Program Administrator, and Senior Systems Analyst for CSR, Inc.; Senior Team Leader at DuPont Pharmaceuticals; Technology Education Manager for Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius LLP; and Director of Training for Dechert LLP. During his career, he established the DuPont Technology Education Center and has contributed significantly to the acquisition and management of nearly $50 million in federal grants. Notably, he pioneered placing the research database (ETOH) on the web for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He has presented his work at the Masie TechLearn Conference, International Teleconferencing Association annual meeting, and published in The Distance Learning Journal. He is a member of the American Society of Training and Development, American Legal Training Association, and the eLearning Guild.
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Kirsten R. Heck, B. A. Kirsten received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Corporate Communication with a minor in Photography from Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA. She is a coordinator in the Development & Alumni Relations Office at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. She is continuing her education as an MA student in Communication and Public Relations at Johns Hopkins University. Her previous positions include being an Admissions Counselor at Lycoming College and holding the position of Standards Administrator for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) in Philadelphia, PA. She was an officer of her college sorority Alpha Sigma Tau, has exhibited her photography in juried shows, and is a vocalist with Pennsylvania Academy of Performing Arts International Choir.
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John H. Newman, Ph.D. Teaching has always been an important part of John Newman's personal and professional life. Early in his academic career, while still earning his bachelor's degree, he was both a teaching assistant and a part-time instructor at Allegheny College. In his final years of graduate study at Penn State, he taught the first-year graduate course on cognitive development and undergraduate introductory psychology; he also assisted the Penn State faculty with advising 600 psychology majors as the Departmental Academic Advisor and was an assistant varsity fencing coach for seven years. During a year as Assistant Professor at Kutztown University, he taught Research Methods with Lab, General Psychology, Principles of Measurement, and a graduate course in Psychological Testing. Also as an Assistant Professor, for six years at Mount Saint Mary's University, he regularly taught from among Foundations of Psychology, Adulthood & Aging, Child Development, Experimental Cognition with Lab, Cognitive Development, Sleep & Dreams, and History & Systems, as well as directing senior research and involving undergraduates in his research program. As a faculty member, he gains the most personal satisfaction from academic advisement, seminars, laboratory-based instruction, and research supervision. He is a frequent guest lecturer in high school psychology classes and judges science fairs in three states. John's administrative experience has been in the service of applied research in education. As Principal Evaluator for McREL (the US Department of Education Regional Laboratory in Denver), John assessed the K-12 mathematics and science education needs of the seven-state High Plains Region. He also reviewed the methodological quality of published rural education research and he evaluated “classroom instructional strategies that work” and the “development of teacher leadership” in collaboration with local school districts and universities. Prior to joining McREL, John was Associate Director of the MIT Teaching & Learning Laboratory and collaborated with over forty faculty members investigating technology mediated educational innovations developed for their classrooms. Before MIT, he headed research and evaluation at Northwestern University's Searle Center for Teaching Excellence where his research focused on increasing the academic achievement of women and other minorities in science gatekeeper courses through the reduction of stereotype vulnerability and also serving as an internal evaluator for the NSF Research Center on Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Education. Other positions and activities have included: (a) three years as a Research Fellow with the Multivariate Neurocognitive Development Program at University of Southern California, where he additionally gave teaching seminars to grad students and postdocs through the Center for Excellence in Teaching; (b) leading discussions at the annual APS Institute on the Teaching of Psychology; (c) holding sessions on science education policy and legislative advocacy for the Council on Undergraduate Research; and (d) consulting for the Russian State Universities on the democratization of higher education. He has been a popular speaker and workshop leader on the topics of "cognitive processes important to learning" and "assessment of educational outcomes" at institutions such as University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Universität Osnabrük in Germany, and University of Aizu in Japan. John's theoretical work addresses science education and the philosophy of science. His applied research focuses on the creation of reliable measures of change and on the investigation of technologies that enhance academic performance and retention. His basic research program focuses on the intellectual development of young adults and the growth of judgment during emergent adulthood. In this subject, his dissertation was one of three finalists for the American Psychological Association's award in statistics, measurement, and evaluation. In 1994, he was selected as one of the Nation's top young faculty and agents-of-change for Project Kaleidoscope's Faculty for the 21st Century. His commitment to the mentorship of students in the laboratory resulted in a nomination for the 1996 distinguished teaching award given by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. In addition, he was honored with a Presidential Citation during the 2000 APA Convention "in recognition of his national leadership for the improvement of higher education in psychology as a science." back
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Selected Publications and Presentations Newman, J. H. (1986). Wisdom for the 21st Century. Allegheny Magazine, 6(2), 38-41.
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