Jennifer A. Schmidt

Biography

Jennifer A. Schmidt is the interim chairperson for the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education (CEPSE) and a professor of educational psychology. She is broadly interested in adolescent motivation and engagement in learning contexts, both inside and outside of school. She studies how multiple dimensions of student experience fluctuate with the changing features of learning environments. Her work informs, and is informed by scholarship on human motivational processe