Rittle-Johnson wins Peabody Excellence in Research Award

Posted 5/11/2011

Bethany Rittle-Johnson, Associate Professor of Psychology, was awarded the 2011 Peabody Award for Excellence in Research.  Rittle-Johnson's research focuses on the psychological processes  involved in the teaching and learning of mathematics in the classroom.  In presenting the award, Dean Camilla Benbow noted that Rittle-Johnson's investigations of phenomena such as the researsal of knowledge and the bemefits of self-explanation have the potential to greatly impact mathematics instruction.