Awards
2023 Outstanding Graduate Professor from the Graduate Student Senate at the University of Tennessee
2023 Helen B. Watson Faculty/Student Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation from the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences at the University of Tennessee
2023 Excellence in Graduate Student Mentorship Award from the Department of Educational, Leadership and Policy Studies.
2022 Louie M. and Betty M. Phillips Faculty Support in Education Award from the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences at the University of Tennessee
Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award 2018 from the Association for Institutional Research. Awarded in 2020 for “How often if ‘often’: Examining the meaning of vague quantifiers in higher education” published in Research in Higher Education.
Top Poster Award at the 2019 American Psychological Association, Division 16 (School Psychology) for Do Acadience Pathways of Progress reading goals apply to English language learners equally? Paper subsequently published in School Psychology Review.
2018 Helen B. Watson Outstanding Faculty Research Award from the College of Education, Health & Human Sciences at the University of Tennessee.
2017 SGA Open Education Award from the University of Tennessee Student Government Association and the University Libraries.
Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award 2014 from the Association for Institutional Research. Awarded in 2015 for “College seniors’ plans for graduate school: Do deep approaches to learning and Holland academic environments matter?” published in Research in Higher Education.
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