Professorial Assistantships

Below are a list of examples of past research project titles previously available to professorial assistants. 

• Supporting Student Motivation and Engagement (Dr. Lisa Linnenbrink-Garica)
• Michigan State University Early Learning Institute (Dr. Josh Plavnick)
• Alignment in Reading Instructional Programs and Assessment Instruments (Dr. Sara Witmer)
• Evaluating Sports-related Concussions in High School and Collegiate Athletics (Dr. Tracey Covassin)
• Early Life Undernutrition Influences Cardiac Development (Dr. David Ferguson)
• Control of Bimanual Coordination in Humans (Dr. Florian Kagerer)
• Motor Learning and Development (Dr. Mei-Hua Lee)
• Physical Activity and Academic Success (Dr. James Pivarnik)
• Physical Activity and Pregnancy (Dr. James Pivarnik [Emeritus])
• Educational Research – High School Physics (Dr. Alicia Alonzo)
• Eight Athletes Tweeting: Designing a Research-Based Social Media Mentoring Program for NCAA Division I Student-Athletes (Dr. Douglas Hartman)
• Globalization, Education and Teaching (Dr. Lynn Paine [Emerita])
• The Politics of Education Reform (Dr. Rebecca Jacobsen)
• Studying How Beginning Elementary Teachers Notice and Respond to Students’ Scientific Sense-Making (Dr. Christina Schwarz)
• How Teachers Teach and Learn to Teach Science at the Preschool, Elementary and Middle School Levels (Dr. Christina Schwarz)
• The Verses Project: Exploring Literacy through Lyrics and Song (Dr. Vaughn W. M. Watson)
• Development and Implementation of a Family Psycho-Educational Intervention for Transition-Age Individuals with Autism and Other Neuro-Developmental Disabilities (Dr. Gloria Lee)
• Development of a Curriculum of Emotional Regulation for Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (Dr. Gloria Lee)
• Development of a Dynamic Vocabulary Assessment to Help Teachers Identify Kindergarten Students with Reading Comprehension Difficulties (Dr. Eunsoo Cho)
• Engaging K-12 Students to Think Computationally (Dr. Aman Yadav)
• Analysis of Elementary and Middle School Students’ Written Composition (Dr. Adrea Truckenmiller)
• UTEMPT: University Teaching Experience for Mathematics Prospective Teachers (Dr. Kristen Bieda)
• Human Performance Factors of Developmental Race Car Drivers (Dr. Jennifer VanDerHeide)
• ELMS: Engaging Learning Moments in Science (Dr. Barbara Schneider)